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Dr. Patrick Bernhard

DHI Rom, I
Fellow
01.10.10-30.09.11

Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
School of History

CV
Born 1970; 1999 M.A. in History, University of Munich; 1998-2003 Research Fellow, Institute for Contemporary History Munich; 2003 Dr. phil. In History, University of Munich; 2003-2004 Visiting Fellow Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico Trento; 2005 Research Fellow, University Erlangen-Nuremberg; 2005-2009 Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Rome; 2009 Visiting Fellow Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschungen Potsdam; 2010 Scholarshipholder DGIA at the Freie Universität Berlin


PUBLICATIONS
Books, Proceedings, Editions, and Articles (10 selected)

- Zivildienst zwischen Reform und Revolte. Eine bundesdeutsche Institution im gesellschaftlichen Wandel, 1961-1982, München 2005.
- “Lebensraumwissenschaft”. Die Kieler Geographen, die NS-Volkstumsforschung und der Traum von einem deutschen Kolonialreich, in: Wissenschaft an der Grenze. Die Universität Kiel im Nationalsozialismus, edited by Christoph Cornelißen and Carsten Mish, 2nd ed. Essen 2010, pp. 341-358.
- Die „Kolonialachse“. Der NS-Staat und Italienisch-Afrika 1935 bis 1943, in: Die Achse im Krieg, Politik, Ideologie und Kriegführung 1939 bis 1945, edited by Thomas Schlemmer, Lutz Klinkhammer and Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi, Paderborn 2010.
- Repression transnational. Die Polizeizusammenarbeit zwischen Drittem Reich und italienischem Faschismus, 1933-1943, in: Die Polizei im NS-Staat. Beiträge eines internationalen Symposiums an der Deutschen Hochschule der Polizei in Münster, edited by Wolfgang Schulte, Frankfurt am Main 2009, pp. 407-424.
- (with Anne Rohstock): Writing about the “revolution”. Nuovi studi internazionali sul movimento del ‘68, in: Ricerche di Storia Politica 11 (2008), pp. 177-192.
- “Vieni un po’ in Italia …” Aspetti del turismo tedesco in Italia nel secondo dopoguerra, in: Storia del turismo. Annale 2006-2008, pp. 175-189.
- (with Alessandra Ferretti) Pazifismus per Gesetz? Krieg und Frieden in der westdeutschen Verfassungsdiskussion, 1945-1949, in: Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 66 (2007), pp. 45-70.
- An der „Friedensfront“. Die APO, der Zivildienst und der gesellschaftliche Aufbruch der sechziger Jahre, in: Wo „1968“ liegt. Reform und Revolte in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik, edited by Christina v. Hodenberg and Detlef Siegfried, Göttingen 2006, pp. 164-200.
- Die Pizza am Rhein. Zur Italienisierung der deutschen Küche und Gastronomie im 20. Jahrhundert, in: Die Geschichte des Erfolgsmodells BRD im internationalen Vergleich, edited by Jörg Calließ, Rehburg-Loccum 2006,  pp. 211-230. In Italian: La Pizza sul Reno. Per una storia della cucina e della gastronomia italiane in Germania nel XX secolo, in: Memoria e Ricerca 23 (2006), pp. 63-72.
- Kriegsdienstverweigerung per Postkarte. Ein gescheitertes Reformprojekt der sozialliberalen Koalition, 1969-1978, in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 53 (2005), pp. 109-139.

FRIAS RESEARCH PROJECT

“Race” and “Space” across borders. Cooperation between National Socialism and Italian Fascism in the field of population policies 1933-1943

Until recently, the “Berlin-Rome Axis” was considered a temporary coalition of common interest, and at least for the mainstream of researchers it was characterized by a low degree of ideological parallels. However, my studies to date, point in the opposite direction. It turned out that cooperation between the regimes was very close and affected elements in these two systems of government that were both central and strongly loaded with ideology. The Fascist regime, for example, adapted the so‐called Reichserbhofgesetz, the legal nucleus of the Blood and Soil ideology. Conversely, the Italian concept of Colonial Fascism apparently even influenced the infamous Generalplan Ost. A connection between colonialism and the Nazi settlement policy in Eastern Europe had long been assumed by scholars but was yet to be established as fact. Convergences like these provoke the very fundamental questions of where the substantial differences between the two regimes are to be found and whether it would not be better to understand Fascism as a generic term.

“Race” and “Space” were not central only to Nazi Weltanschauung and policies. Today some historians are beginning to use the term “racial state” also in relation to Mussolini’s regime. However, the Fascist regimes’ collaboration in this field has not as yet been the subject of serious study. My project will thus close a major omission in research.