Raffael Scheck's Home Page

Raffael Scheck
Professor
History Department
Colby College
Waterville, Maine 04901-8853 (USA)
E-mail: rmscheck@colby.edu

This page contains class materials as well as a curriculum vitae and information on my scholarship. I have published four books and many articles on German history at the time of the world wars. My third book Hitler's African Victims (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 [hardcover] and 2008 [paperback]) has been translated into French (2007) and German (2009). I am now working on French colonial prisoners of war in German POW camps, 1940-45, examining the conditions of their captivity, the struggle of the German and French authorities for the loyalty of these prisoners, and the influence of the prisoners' experiences on the postwar move toward independence in the colonies.

I was born in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) and grew up in Germany, Israel, and (mostly) in Switzerland (first in Geneva, later near Zürich). I started out as a cello student at the conservatory in Zürich but then decided to study History at the University of Zürich and Brandeis University (USA). I have a Habilitation Degree from the University of Basel. I am a German citizen. Since 1994, I have taught modern European and German history at Colby College, where I also served as chair of the History Department for two terms (2000-2003 and 2005-2008).

Commands:

Get virtual textbook for Germany and Europe, 1871-1945 (HI 224). I expanded this text and published it as a book with Berg Publishers in Oxford. See Germany 1871-1945: A Concise History.
See information on Hitler's African Victims. It is translated into French (Une Saison Noire) and German.
Go to the publisher's page for my second book, Mothers of the Nation (2004).
See the advertisement for my first book (Alfred von Tirpitz and German Right-Wing Politics, 1914-1930) at the Colby Bookstore and get a summary of its content.
Get my Curriculum Vitae with list of publications.
Get Guidelines for writing a paper.
See the History Department and International Studies pages.
Recipe for my Linzertorte.
I still play the cello in the Scheck Duo, the Kennebec Quartet, and the Augusta Symphony.
See pictures of my children Anselm and Adelia and me, Sophia Isabella, my little princess, and all three of them.

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