Prof. Dr. Eric Kurlander (MA/PhD Harvard University) is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Modern European History at Stetson University (Deland, FL, USA), where he has taught since 2001. His books include Modern Germany: A Global History, co-authored with Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Douglas McGetchin (Oxford University Press, 2023); Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (Yale University Press, 2017; paperback 2018); Living With Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich (Yale, 2009); The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898-1933 (Berghahn, 2006); and two co-edited volumes, Revisiting the ‘Nazi Occult’: Histories, Realities, Legacies, with Monica Black (Camden House, 2015), and Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India: Kindred Spirits in the 19th and 20th Centuries, with Joanne Miyang Cho and Douglas McGetchin (Routledge, 2014). During his three months at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (May – August 2023) Kurlander will be working on his current book project, Before the Final Solution: A Global History of the Nazi “Jewish Question”, 1919-1941, supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Alumni Fellowship.