Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Cold War Weimar: German Emigres and the Intellectual Origins of the Cold War
By examining the works and activities of influential yet often overlooked Cold War-era thinkers - Carl J. Friedrich, Ernst Fraenkel, Hans Morgenthau, Walter Laqueur, and Peter Gay - who emigrated from Germany and became members of the U.S. establishment, this work traces the intellectual origins of the Cold War to German theories developed during the interwar years.
Udi Greenberg is a professor of history at Dartmouth College. He is the author of The Weimar Century (Princeton 2015) and The End of the Schism (Harvard 2025) as well as many articles and essays on European history.