Hermann Beck is Professor of History at the University of Miami. He received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles after studying literature and history at German universities, the London School of Economics, and the Sorbonne. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Fellow at the Berliner Historische Kommission, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His publications include books on the Nazi seizure of power and nineteenth-century Prussia, as well as numerous articles in American, British, and German journals and in edited collections. His latest book, Before the Holocaust, was awarded the 2024 Yad Vashem International Book Prize.