Peter FritzschePeter Fritzsche is Professor of History, Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois, USA. He is the author of nine books, a number of which have ben translated across five different languages, including Life and Death in the Third Reich (2008), Friedrich Nietzsche and the Death of God (2007) and Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History (2004). He is also the co-editor, along with Alon Confino, of The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture (2002) and Imagining the Twentieth Century (1997), with Charles Stewart. Read More Read Less