Historisches Institut – Sommervortrag: Toward a Global History of the Second World War

Garon is currently writing a transnational history of “home fronts” in Japan, Germany, and Britain in World War II. The Second World War was a global experience, yet histories of the home front remain confined to individual nations and national mythologies. In actuality, all these home fronts were transnationally constructed between the 1920s and 1945, as planners in each nation systematically investigated how allies and enemies were mobilizing their civilian populations for “total war.”