Born and raised in Germany, I earned my PhD at the University of North Carolina with a study that eventually turned into a prize-winning book on the American debate on Nazism, 1933-1945 (Know Your Enemy, Cambridge 2010). At Chapel Hill my mentor was Gerhard L. Weinberg, the renowned historian of World War Two and the Holocaust, himself a German-Jewish child refugee. While I have pursued a dual, transatlantic career in academia and foreign policy think tanks (Brookings Institution, German Council on Foreign Relations) as a scholar of U.S. foreign relations, I have maintained my engagement with the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust through teaching and writing. For the coming AY 2023/24 I look forward to serving as academic director for our AYF/Academic Year Freiburg Consortium, integrating the history and writing of Anne Frank into the curriculum and exploring with our students German and European initiatives that parallel Iowa's AFI.