Previous Winners of the Fraenkel Prize
2006

Category A
Dr Benjamin Hett
Crossing Hitler: Hans Litten's Legal Struggle Against Adolf Hitler and the Nazis

Category B
Joint winners:
Dr Andrew  C Donson
Youth in the Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, Authority in Germany, 1914-1918

Dr Björn Michael Felder
Lettland im Ausnahmezustand.  Sowjetische und nationalsozialistische Besatzung und die Reaktionen der Bevölkerung 1940-1946

2006

Category A
Dr Atina Grossmann (USA): Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany.
The panel also warmly commended Dr Marline Otte for her essay entitled Jewish Identities in German Popular Entertainment, 1890-1933 which was entered for category A.

Category B
Dr Alexander Watson (UK): The Chances of Survival. Personal Risk Assessment and Attitudes to Death among German and British soldiers in the Great War, 1914-1918.
Dr Riccarda Torriani (Switzerland): Nazis into Germans: Re-education and democratisation in the British and French Occupation Zones 1945-1949.

2005

Category A
Dr. Rebecca Wittmann (Canada): Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial.

Category B
Dr Eagle Glassheim (USA): Noble Nationalists: The Transformation of the Bohemian Aristocracy.

2004

Category A
Professor Marci Shore (USA): Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968.

Category B
Dr Robert Gerwarth (UK): Bismarck in Weimar: Germany's First Democracy and the Civil War of Memories (1918-1933).

2003

Category A
No category A prize awarded.

Category B
Dr Chad Bryant: Making the Czechs German: Nationality and Nazi Rule in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1939-1945.
Dr Cynthia V. Hooper: Terror From Within: Participation and Coercion in Soviet Power, 1924-1964.
Dr Kristin Semmens: Domestic Tourism in the Third Reich.

2002

Category A
Professor Helmut Walser Smith (USA): The Butchers Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town.

Category B
Dr Vandana Joshi (India): Verhaltensmuster von Frauen im NS Alltag (1933-1945).

2001

Category A
Dr Karel C Berkhoff (Netherlands): Hitler’s Clean Slate: Soviet Ukraine under Nazi Rule 1941 – 1944.

Category B
Dr Alon Rachamimov (Israel): Austro-Hungarian POWs in Russia 1914 – 1918
Dr Nikolaus Wachsmann (Germany/Gt Britain): Reform and Repression: Prisons and penal Policy in Germany 1918-1939.

2000

Category A
Dr Mark Roseman (UK): The Past in Hiding.
Professor John Horne & Dr Alan Kramer (Ireland): German Atrocities in 1914: Meanings and Memories of War.

Category B
Dr Maureen Healy (USA): Vienna Falling: Total War and Everyday Life, 1914 –1918.

1999

Category A
Prof. Robert Moeller (USA): War Stories: the Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Category B
Dr. des Till van Rahden (Germany): Juden und andere Breslauer: die Beziehungen zwischen Juden, Protestanten und Katholiken in einer deutschen Grosstadt von 1860 bis 1925.

1998

Category A
Dr. Joanna Bourke (UK): An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare.

Category B
Dr. Gunnar S. Paulsson (UK): Hiding in Warsaw: The Jews on the 'Aryan Side' in the Polish Capital, 1940-1945.

1997

Category A
Professor Vicki Caron (USA): Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1932-1942.

Category B
Dr. Nicholas Doumanis (Australia):  Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean.


2006
Category ADr Atina Grossmann (USA): The panel also warmly commended Dr Marline Otte for her essay entitled which was entered for category A. Category BDr Alexander Watson (UK): Dr Riccarda Torriani (Switzerland): Category ADr. Rebecca Wittmann (Canada): Category B Dr Eagle Glassheim (USA): Category AProfessor Marci Shore (USA): Category BDr Robert Gerwarth (UK): Category ANo category A prize awarded. Category BDr Chad Bryant: Dr Cynthia V. Hooper: Dr Kristin Semmens: Category AProfessor Helmut Walser Smith (USA): Category BDr Vandana Joshi (India): Category ADr Karel C Berkhoff (Netherlands): Category B Dr Alon Rachamimov (Israel): Dr Nikolaus Wachsmann (Germany/Gt Britain): Category A Dr Mark Roseman (UK): Professor John Horne & Dr Alan Kramer (Ireland): Category B Dr Maureen Healy (USA): Category AProf. Robert Moeller (USA): Category BDr. des Till van Rahden (Germany): Category ADr. Joanna Bourke (UK): Category BDr. Gunnar S. Paulsson (UK): Category A Professor Vicki Caron (USA): Category B Dr. Nicholas Doumanis (Australia):