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Helmut Walser Smith

Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History, Vanderbilt University

Helmut Walser Smith is the Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His books include The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Antisemitism in a German Town (2002), The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long 19th Century (2008) and Germany: A Nation in Its Time (2020).

Written by Helmut Walser Smith