In her lecture, Professor Schüler-Springorum will present the findings of her forthcoming book on the history of the Condor Legion, the National Socialist elite force which contributed significantly to Franco's victory in 1939. Based on rich archival and autobiographical material, she will focus on the day-to-day history of the war, as experienced by the pilots themselves. By examinig their expectations, perceptions and ways of remembering, she presents insights into the minds of this generation of young German men, who enthusiastically followed Hitler into World War II and who later on became the pillars of modern West German democracy. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum is Director of the Institute for German-Jewish History in Hamburg and teaches Modern German history at Hamburg University. Her scholarship focuses on German-Jewish History in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of the Holocaust and modern Spanish history. She is the author of Die jüdische Minderheit in Königsberg/Pr. 1871-1945 (1996); co-author of Denkmalsfigur. Biographische Annäherung an Hans Litten (2008) and co-editor of Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte als Geschlechtergeschichte. Studien zum 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (2005). Her forthcoming book is: Krieg und Fliegen. Die Legion Condor im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg (2009).
