Nicolas Offenstadt
Nicolas Offenstadt is a historian and senior lecturer (HDR) at the University of Paris I, specialising in issues of Memory, in particular the Great War and the GDR. His publications include Le Pays disparu. Sur les traces de la RDA (Stock, 2018 re-edition revised and completed Gallimard 2019) and Urbex RDA (Albin Michel, 2019). He recently co-edited a collective work on the place of the Great War in the construction of the GDR, Das rote Erbe der Front. Der Erste Weltkrieg in der DDR (De Gruyter, 2022). He is also working on urban exploration (Urbex) as a tool for history and the social sciences (Urbex, Albin Michel, 2022).
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