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- ↑ The information in this section is taken from the weblinks to the pages of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
- ↑ Fall-Fallgeschichte-Fallstudie : Theorie und Geschichte einer Wissensform on WorldCat
- ↑ Vgl. die Recension by Agnes Laba on Online-Portal Sehepunkte .
- ↑ Das Unbehagen an der Erinnerung - Wandlungsprozesse im Gedenken an den Holocaust on WorldCat
- ↑ Verbrechen der Wehrmacht. Dimensionen des Vernichtungskrieges 1941–1944 on WorldCat
- ↑ In dubio contra reum? Über den Wunsch nach historischer Eindeutigkeit on WorldCat
- ↑ Autobiographische Aufarbeitung : Diktatur und Lebensgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert on WorldCat
- ↑ Postsouveräne Territorialität. Die Europäische Union und ihr Raum on WorldCat
