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<\/a><\/p>\nThomas Berger,<\/a>\u00a0Professor of International Relations at the\u00a0<\/span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University<\/span>, was recently interviewed on the expropriation of the house where Adolf Hitler was born by the Austrian government.<\/p>\n Berger was interviewed for a December 15, 2016 article in the\u00a0Christian Science Monitor<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>entitled “Austria to Seize, But Not Destroy, Hitler’s House. Here’s Why it Matters.<\/a>”<\/p>\n From the text of the article:<\/p>\n The site has been the object of pilgrimages by neo-Nazi groups, to the dismay of locals. And the climate of European politics turning rightward \u2013 the far-right populist Freedom Party nearly captured the Austrian presidency in this month\u2019s elections \u2013 probably \u201cweighed heavily on the minds of policy-makers\u201d in debates over whether to raze the house or remodel it, says Thomas Berger, a Boston University professor of international relations who has written a book about the role of guilt in post-World War II politics.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNo one expects the Nazis to come back,\u201d he tells The Christian Science Monitor. But there are disturbing similarities between politics of mid 20th-century Europe and the present, he adds. \u201cEuropean political leaders want to remind the general population that Europe stands against it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n You can read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thomas Berger joined the Department of International Relations in 2001. Previously, he taught for seven years at the Johns Hopkins Department of Political Science in Baltimore. He is the author of\u00a0<\/span>War, Guilt and World Politics After World War II<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan<\/em>\u00a0and is co-editor of\u00a0<\/span>Japan in International Politics: Beyond the Reactive State.\u00a0<\/em>You can read more about him <\/span>here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prof. Thomas Berger discusses the expropriation of the house where Adolf Hitler was born by the Austrian government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9287,9927,9062,9928,8860,8859,8581],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26166,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26164\/revisions\/26166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}