# David Stahel
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david stahel (born 1975 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a historian, author and senior lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales. He specialises in German military history of World War II. Stahel has authored several books on the military operations of the first six months of the Eastern Front, including on the launching of Operation Barbarossa, the Battle of Kiev (1941) and the Battle for Moscow.
== Education and career ==
Stahel completed an honours degree at Monash University and Boston College.
Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe" (Indiana UP, 2018)
Alex J. Kay (senior lecture of History at Potsdam University in Berlin) and David Stahel (senior lecturer in History at the University of New South Wales in Canberra) have edited a groundbreaking series of articles on German mass killing and violence during World War II. Four years in the making, t…
Eastern Front #25 The Battle of Moscow Begins
Last time we spoke about the fall of Tikhvin. The German offensive toward Tikhvin stalls against Rasputitsa, ice, and supply failures, while Soviet resilience around Leningrad, Volkhov, and Moscow’s approaches slows the Germans’ advance. By November 9–15, 1941, Hitler’s high command grappled with h…
DZ Season 064 Part 22. End the War in 44 – Only Human – Bradley 7 – Winter Unpreparedness – History Repeats Itself - Part 22
In his book Retreat from Moscow, David Stahel relates:
If the German troops retained a general measure of faith in their commanders, this is not to say it came without qualifications. The most common complaint was the absence of winter clothing, which by early December 1941 was a criticism that had…
David Stahel, *The Cambridge Companion to the Nazi-Soviet War*. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
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The Nazi-Soviet War stands as the most extensive and savage theatre of the Second World War, waged between two of the most merciless regimes ever to have existed. Uniting twenty-four of the most distinguished historians from both German and Soviet backgrounds, this Cambridge Compan…
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