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Alexandra Richie


Born
Victoria, Canada

Alexandra Richie is an historian specializing in Germany as well as Central and Eastern Europe and defense and security issues. She is the author of Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin which was named one of top ten books of the year by American Publisher’s Weekly, and Warsaw 1944 which won the Newsweek Teresa Torańska Prize for best non-fiction book of 2014 and the Kazimierz Moczarski Prize for Best History Book in Poland 2015. She is a Presidential Counselor at the National World War II Museum, New Orleans, U.S.A. and a Governor of St Michael’s University School In Victoria, Canada. She is Wladyslaw Bartoszewski Chair co-chair and she teaches History and International Studies at the Collegium Civitas.

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Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmle...

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“In our multi-ethnic, relativist world it is difficult to understand the importance placed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on concepts like ethnic, racial or cultural ‘purity’;”
Alexandra Richie, Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin

“Frederick claimed to be tired of looking into blue eyes and encouraged not only French, German and Polish immigrants but Greeks and other Mediterraneans to come; he had an immigration office set up in Venice and considered building a mosque in Berlin to attract Turks.”
Alexandra Richie, Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin

“In 1982 the SED admitted that rock music did in fact exist”
Alexandra Richie, Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin

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