Kim Christian Priemel

Professor - Historie

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Background

Following my studies at the Universities of Freiburg and St Andrews I took my PhD from Freiburg University with a dissertation in business history in 2007. After stints at the Munich-based Institute of Contemporary History and Viadrina University Frankfurt I was an assistant professor (2009-2016) and a Dilthey Fellow (2012-2016) at Humboldt University Berlin. Upon completion of my Habilitation with a study of the Nuremberg war crimes trials I joined Oslo's Department of Archeology, Conservation, and History in 2016. Since 2018 I have been working as a professor of contemporary European history at IAKH. In the past, I have held research fellowships at the German Historical Institute London, Wolfson College Cambridge, and the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

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Within the broad field of contemporary history my research interests include international legal history, the history of Nazi Germany and Holocaust Studies, labour history, modern media history, and problems of historiographical theory. I am currently working on a book project which is tentatively titled “The End of the World of Print” and which looks into how printing both as an industry and as a means of communication was transformed by the advent of electronics and digital media in the latter half of the twentieth century. Particular emphasis will be placed on what these changes meant for those involved in the industry – printers, compositors, bookbinders, but also authors and managers – as well as for consumers, i.e. readers. The project is both international and transnational in scope, reflecting technological transfer, business relations, trade union internationalism, and different implications of similar changes in various national and cultural contexts.

Tags: Contemporary History, Legal History, Social and Economic History, Holocaust Studies, International Histoy, Theory and method

Priemel, Kim Christian (2023). Trouver des chemins et poser des jalons. Le rôle de la Shoah dans les procès de Nuremberg et l’importance de Nuremberg pour la recherche sur la Shoah . Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains. ISSN 0984-2292. 292(4), p. 11–26. doi: 10.3917/gmcc.292.0011. Full text in Research Archive
Priemel, Kim Christian (2022). Searching for Order. German Jurists Debate Economic Power, 1919–1949. In Föllmer, Moritz & Swett, Pamela (Ed.), Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781108985192. p. 85–114.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2022). Vetorecht der Quellen? Zeitgeschichte Online. ISSN 2366-2700.
Priemel, Kim Christian & Payk, Marcus (2021). Thinking Law, Talking Law, Doing Law: How Lawyers Craft(ed) the International Order. In Priemel, Kim Christian & Payk, Marcus (Ed.), Crafting the International Order. Practitioners and Practices of International Law since c.1800. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198863830. p. 1–20.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2021). Changing Hats. Nuremberg’s Visible College and the Politics of Internationalism, 1941–49. In Priemel, Kim Christian & Payk, Marcus (Ed.), Crafting the International Order. Practitioners and Practices of International Law since c.1800. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198863830. p. 191–200.
Priemel, Kim Christian & Hederer, Franz (2021). In der Schwebe. Markt, Staat und Wettbewerb in Deutschland zwischen 1918 und 1948. Historische Zeitschrift. ISSN 0018-2613. 313(1), p. 89–123. doi: 10.1515/hzhz-2021-0023. Full text in Research Archive
Priemel, Kim Christian & Lutz, Martin (2021). Powering Conquest. How German Corporations Sustained Occupation in World War II Ukraine. The Journal of modern history. ISSN 0022-2801. 93(3), p. 636–667. doi: 10.1086/715620. Full text in Research Archive
Priemel, Kim Christian (2020). Cunning Passages: Historiography’s Ways in and out of the Nuremberg Courtroom. Central European History. ISSN 0008-9389. 53(4), p. 785–810. doi: 10.1017/S0008938920000400. Full text in Research Archive
Priemel, Kim Christian (2020). Historical Reasoning and Judicial Historiography in International Criminal Trials. In Heller, Kevin Jon; Mégret, Frédéric; Nouwen, Sarah; Ohlin, Jens & Robinson, Darryl (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law . Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198825203. p. 519–539. doi: 10.1093/law/9780198825203.003.0023.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2020). War Crimes Trials, the Holocaust, and Historiography, 1943–2011. In Gigliotti, Simone & Hilary, Earl (Ed.), A Companion to the Holocaust. Wiley-Blackwell. ISSN 978-1-118-97052-2. p. 173–189.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2020). A Vanishing Act. The Reich Ministry of Labour and the Nuremberg Trials, 1945–1949. In Nützenadel, Alexander (Eds.), Bureaucracy, Work, and Violence. The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 . Berghahn Books. ISSN 978-1-78920-458-2. p. 397–424.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2019). Corporate Liabilities: A Genealogy of Business Accountability under International Criminal Law. In Brousseau, Eric; Glachant, Jean-Michel & Sgard, Jérôme (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Institutions of International Economic Governance and Market Regulation. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190900571. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190900571.001.0001.
Priemel, Kim Christian; Eichenberg, Julia; Lahusen, Benjamin & Payk, Marcus (2019). A machine that dreams: The law in contemporary history and the contemporary history of law. Zeithistorische Forschungen. ISSN 1612-6033. 16(2), p. 215–231. doi: 10.14765/zzf.dok-1525.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2019). Voices in the head: Listening in and participating in the Nuremberg trials (1945-1949). Zeithistorische Forschungen. ISSN 1612-6033. 16(2), p. 375–387. doi: 10.14765/zzf.dok-1515.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2018). Multiple Innovation. Computer und die industriellen Arbeitsbeziehungen in den Druckindustrien Großbritanniens, der USA und Westdeutschlands, 1962-1995. In Bösch, Frank (Eds.), Wege in die digitale Gesellschaft. Computernutzung in der Bundesrepublik 1955-1990. Wallstein Verlag. ISSN 978-3-8353-3290-4. p. 198–224.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2018). Im Sande verlaufen? Das Ludwigsburger Ermittlungsverfahren gegen das Einsatzkommando 3 und die justizielle Täterforschung nach 1945. In Schulte, Jan Erik & Wildt, Michael (Ed.), Die SS nach 1945. Entschuldungsnarrative, populäre Mythen, europäische Erinnerungsdiskurse. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISSN 978-3-8471-0820-7. p. 119–144. doi: 10.14220/9783737008204.119.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2018). National Socialism and German Business. In Baranowski, Shelley (Eds.), A Companion to Nazi Germany. Wiley-Blackwell. ISSN 978-1-118-93688-7. p. 281–298. doi: 10.1002/9781118936894.ch17.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2017). Entrées "Flick, affaire"; "IG Farben, affaire"; "Krupp, affaire"; "Ministéres, affaire"; "Taylor (Telford)". In Beauvallet, Olivier (Eds.), Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la justice pénale internationale. Berger-Levrault. ISSN 978-2-85130-2.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2017). Arbeitsverwaltung vor Gericht. Das Reichsarbeitsministerium und die Nürnberger Prozesse 1945–1949. In Nuetzenadel, Alexander (Eds.), Das Reichsarbeitsministerium im Nationalsozialismus. Verwaltung – Politik – Verbrechen. Wallstein Verlag. ISSN 978-3-8353-3002-3. p. 461–493. doi: 10.5771/9783835340817-459.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2016). Scorched Earth, Plunder, and Massive Mobilization: The German Occupation of Ukraine and the Soviet War Economy. In Scherner, Jonas & White, Eugene (Ed.), Paying for Hitler’s War: The Consequences of Nazi Hegemony for Europe. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 978-1-107-04970-3. p. 389–426. doi: 10.1017/cbo9781107279131.016.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2016). Pionier- und Präzedenzfälle. Der verschlungene Weg von Nürnberg nach Den Haag. Einsicht. Bulletin des Fritz Bauer Instituts. ISSN 1868-4211. 16(3), p. 12–21.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2016). Beyond the Saturation Point of Horror. The Holocaust at Nuremberg Revisited. Journal of Modern European History. ISSN 1611-8944. 14(4), p. 522–547. doi: 10.17104/1611-8944-2016-4-522. Show summary
It has long been a matter of contention what role the Nuremberg Trials accorded to the murder of the European Jews. While especially early historiography considered the Allied war crimes proceedings the beginning of «Holocaust trials», a later generation of scholars would argue that the extermination of Europe’s Jews was both under- and misrepresented in the course of the 1945–1949 trials. The present article sets out to reconcile both views by pointing to the heterogeneity of the Nuremberg record, which offered a vast panorama of Holocaust-related evidence and highlighted crimes against Jews at pivotal moments of the trials while also allowing differing, often contradictory narratives to stand side by side. Judicial procedure, however, tended to privilege intentionalist interpretations, and many historians would adopt this prominently formulated paradigm rather than amend it by drawing on the more comprehensive trial record. The article submits that, even measured by the anachronistic standard of present-day Holocaust historiography, Nuremberg’s findings fare surprisingly well.

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Priemel, Kim Christian & Payk, Marcus (2021). Crafting the International Order. Practitioners and Practices of International Law since c.1800. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198863830. 304 p.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2016). The Betrayal: The Nuremberg Trials and German Divergence. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199669752. 496 p.

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Priemel, Kim Christian (2022). Dorothee Wierling (red.) »Wenn die Norskes uns schon nicht lieben, …«. Das Tagebuch des Dienststellenleiters Heinrich Christen im besetzten Norwegen 1941-1943. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). ISSN 0018-263X. 101(4), p. 375–377. doi: 10.18261/ht.101.4.10.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2022). Why Cry “Genocide”? The Second World War Still Looms Large in Russia’s Collective Memory. Opinio juris.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2022). Die Universität in den Zeiten der Cholera . H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften. ISSN 2196-5307.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2021). Roadwork Ahead: The Hague ↔ Nuremberg. Leuven Transitional Justice Blog.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2020). Welz, Fritz. In Kraus, Hans-Christof (Eds.), Neue Deutsche Biographie, vol. 27. Duncker & Humblot. ISSN 978-3-428-11208-1. p. 763–763.
Priemel, Kim Christian (2020). Weiss, Bernhard. In Kraus, Hans-Christof (Eds.), Neue Deutsche Biographie, vol. 27. Duncker & Humblot. ISSN 978-3-428-11208-1. p. 680–681.
Eichenberg, Julia; Lahusen, Benjamin; Payk, Marcus & Priemel, Kim Christian (2019). Zeitgeschichte des Rechts. Zeithistorische Forschungen. ISSN 1612-6033. 16(2).
Priemel, Kim Christian (2017). If you are looking for perfect justice look somewhere else. Lawyers, historians, and the Nuremberg Trials’ precedential qualities. völkerrechtsblog. ISSN 2510-2567.

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Kim Christian Priemel

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