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Eric A. Johnson

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in Salem, Massachusetts, The United States

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Eric Johnson joined the CMU faculty in 1976 after studying at Brown and Stockholm Universities and receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Over the years he has taught a wide array of courses, primarily focused on modern Europe, Germany, the Holocaust, and social science methods and approaches to historical study. He has held several visiting professorships of various lengths. As part of the CMU exchange with Strathclyde University he spent the 1988-1989 academic year teaching in Glasgow, Scotland. Between 1989 and 1995 he was a visiting professor at the Center for Historical Social Research at the University of Cologne, mostly leading a small research team working on terror in Nazi Germany. From 1995-1996 he was in residence ...more

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	What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric A. Johnson (Goodreads Author), Karl-Heinz Reuband 4.01 avg rating — 1,356 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans 3.72 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2000 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Urbanization and Crime: Germany 1871–1914 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country since the Middle Ages 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder and Violence in Modern Latin America (Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series) by Eric A. Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ricardo Salvatore (Editor), Pieter Spierenburg (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Der nationalsozialistische Terror. Gestapo, Juden und gewöhnliche Deutsche it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Where are the Men of the House? Discipling that Makes a Difference by Eric A. Johnson (Goodreads Author), Claude R. Royston (Editor), A. Russell Awkard (Foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Johnson, Eric A. Published by Basic Books 6th (sixth) Impression edition (2006) Paperback 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Beaten paths are for beaten men.”
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“In 1933 nearly 70 percent of Germany’s Jews worked in business and commerce; over 30 percent lived in the city of Berlin alone; and 70 percent lived in cities with a population of over 100,000 inhabitants.”
― Eric A. Johnson, What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany

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“Most non-Jews, however, experienced a very different Third Reich. Few harbored any fear of arrest even though they too often broke the law in minor ways. Most knew instinctively that the terror apparatus was not intent on punishing them so long as they broadly accepted and went along with National Socialism, which most did. Difficult as it is to fathom, given most people’s conception of dictatorship, most Germans appear to have led happy, productive, even normal lives in the Third Reich. This indicates that a dictatorship can enjoy widespread popularity among the majority even while committing unspeakable crimes against minorities and others.”
― Eric A. Johnson, What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany

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