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Caroline Sharples
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A list of academic journal articles, essays in edited volumes, blogs and press features written over the past few years.
Articles & Essays
‘Was Justice Seen to Be Done? Mass Observation and Public Reflections on Nazi Atrocities in the Aftermath of the Nuremberg Tribunal’, in Kate Marrison (ed.), Mass Observation and the Holocaust (London: Bloomsbury: Mass Observation Critical Series, forthcoming 2026).
(co-authored with Fransiska Louwagie, Charlotte Schalli&ie, Andrea Webb), ‘Testifying to Genocide: A Creative and Critical Use of Memory and Testimony in Holocaust Education in the UK and Canada’, in Sara Jones & Roger Woods (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) pp. 405–427.
‘Sealed Off Heritage: Navigating Hitler’s Bunker in Postwar Berlin’, Journal of Contemporary History, 59(1), (2024) 120-139.
‘“Where, exactly, is Auschwitz?” British Confrontation with the Holocaust through the Medium of the 1945 Belsen Trial’, in Tom Lawson & Andy Pearce (eds), The Palgrave Handbook on Britain and the Holocaust (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) pp. 181-200.
‘What Do You Do With A Dead Nazi? Allied Policy on the Execution and Disposal of War Criminals, 1945-55’ in Camilo Erlichmann & Christopher Knowles (eds), Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany (London: Bloomsbury, 2018) pp. 97-114.
‘The Death of Nazism? Investigating Hitler’s Remains and Survival Rumours in Post-War Germany’, in Shane McCorristine (ed.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) pp. 87-102.
'Burying the Past? The Post-Execution History of Nazi War Criminals', in Richard Ward (ed.), A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) pp. 249-271.
‘In Pursuit of Justice: Debates on the Statute of Limitations for Nazi War Criminals’, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Vol. 20, No. 3 (2014) pp. 81-108
‘Holocaust on Trial: British Responses to the International Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945-6’ in Caroline Sharples & Olaf Jensen eds., Britain and the Holocaust: Remembering and Representing War and Genocide (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) pp. 33-55
‘The Kindertransport in British Historical Memory’, Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Vol. 13: Special edition: The Kindertransport to Britain: New Developments in Research (2012) pp. 15-27.
‘Reconstructing the Past: Refugee Writings on the Kindertransport’, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2006) pp. 40-62.
Blogs, Press & Podcasts
Why has Hitler Taken So Long to Die? The Big Issue (7 February 2026). Read here
On the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's death, BBC News Mundo (April 2025). Watch here
‘Delight, Dismay and Disbelief: Reactions to the Death of Adolf Hitler, 75 Years Ago’, blog post for History Matters (30 April 2020). Read here
‘How Should You Bury a Nazi?’, blog post for History Matters (13 November 2013). Read here
‘Kindertransport: Terror, Trauma and Triumph’, History Today, Vol. 54, No. 3 (2004) pp. 23-29.
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