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Harry Legg

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PhD @ Uni of Edinburgh, Scotland | Researching non-Jews classified as "Jewish" in Nazi Germany & Austria. Holocaust history. https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/harry-legg

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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · Jul 14

Just published in the Journal of Genocide Research: my lead article for a forum I organized. In the coming days/weeks, there will be 4 responses from Victoria Barnett, Jürgen Matthäus, Amos Morris-Reich and Mate Zombory, followed by my reply

My piece (free): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 2d

Feeling the pressure to get a postdoc at the moment. If anyone has a cushy position available that I could take up in Sept/Oct 2026, let me know ;). I am not even joking. Some nepotism would be wonderful right about now.

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Chad Gibbs @chadgibbs101.bsky.social · 5d

Preorder page has the cover now!

Survival at Treblinka

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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 6d

Right. I found it insane how people were saying the protests about Gaza shouldn't go ahead because of the attack. Sure, if the motivation for saying that had been that any protest would be bad, I'd get it. But the motive was clearly to link Jews to Israel in an antisemitic way

Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 6d

Thankful today that the UK has strict gun laws.

Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 7d

Thoughts with my Jewish British friends today.

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 7d

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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 9d

Oh nice! Thanks for tagging me

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 10d

Harry Legg's article, 'I Hid for Days in the Basement' was chosen by @npapadogian.bsky.social for its use of autobiographical narrations, "[highlighting] the complexities of this hitherto understudied moment of discovery in the years before the Holocaust". [6/7]

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‘I Hid for Days in the Basement’: Moments of ‘Jewish’ Discovery in Pre-Holocaust Germany and Austria | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

‘I Hid for Days in the Basement’: Moments of ‘Jewish’ Discovery in Pre-Holocaust Germany and Austria - Volume 34 Issue 2

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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 10d

Hitler was apparently the average millennial

Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 11d

Very interesting.

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 12d

Starting today, the journal will publish on Substack. This new platform allows our authors to share short articles inspired by their work in the journal. Our debut post features Dr Anne Irfan’s piece.
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Israel’s Displacement/Immobility Nexus in Palestine

This post is authored by Dr. Anne Irfan, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Studies at UCL and the author of 'A Short History of the Gaza Strip'.

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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 13d

Sign this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 16d

Just read something I wrote a week ago and that shit is utterly abysmal. Time to retire

Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 25d

Don't forget this place is a horrendous echo chamber

Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 26d

My main point anyway is that killing someone for speech is wrong. Arresting them isn't always wrong!

Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 26d

Your post here contains the answer to your criticism.

Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 26d

You mean of speech?

Look, the point I'm making is that the appropriate response to speech is usually speech. Speech can be as bad as violence in how one feels. But people shouldn't be killed for it.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28d

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.

Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.

We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

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