On April 22 we will host a post-show discussion with three special guests from the German Historical Institute.

Martin Klimke is Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow in North American History at the German Historical Institute. His research focuses on the intersection of political and cultural history, as well as transnational history. Trained at the University of Göttingen, Amherst College and the University of Heidelberg, he is the author of The Other Alliance: Global Protest and Student Unrest in West Germany and the U.S., 1962-1972 (Princeton University Press, 2009).  He has taught at Amherst College, Rutgers University, and the University of Heidelberg. He is currently co-authoring a book with Maria Höhn on African American GIs, Germany, and the Struggle for Civil Rights.

Anke Ortlepp is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute. Her research focuses on the intersection of American cultural history, Afro-German history and the history of travel and tourism. Trained at the University of Cologne and Harvard University, she is the author of Auf denn, Ihr Schwestern! Deutschamerikanische Frauenvereine in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1844-1914 and co-edited The Sixties Revisited: Culture, Society, Politics. She has taught at the University of Bonn and the University of Cologne. She is currently working on a project entitled Cultures of Airtravel in Postwar America and co-editing a collection of essays with Larry Greene entitled German and African American Crossovers: Two Centuries of Contact.

Richard F. Wetzell is a Research Fellow and Editor at the German Historical Institute. His research focuses on the intersection of legal history, political history, and the history of science. Trained at Swarthmore College, Columbia University and Stanford University, he is the author of Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 2000) and co-editor of Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective (Cambridge UP, 2006). He is currently completing a legal and political history of penal reform titled The Politics of Punishment in Modern Germany: Reforming Criminal Justice, 1870-1970. He has taught at Stanford University, the University of Maryland at College Park, and Georgetown University.

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