Robert Gellately

Robert Gellately (* 1943 in Newfoundland ) is a Canadian historian. His research focuses on the Holocaust Research and European history in the 20th century.

Gellately studied Russian and German history at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and received his doctorate in 1974 at the London School of Economics and Political Science for Ph.D.. According to studies as a post- doctoral student in Germany, he was teaching at Cornell University and at Huron College, University of Western Ontario.

From 1998 to 2003 Gellately was the owner of the Strassler Chair in the history of the Holocaust at Clark University. Since August 2003 he is the Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University. There he offers, among other courses in comparative history of genocide, of racist thinking in Europe as well as the comparative study of European dictatorships, totalitarian ideologies and the Holocaust.

In his work closer look and looked away. Hitler and his people Gellately represents the thesis that Hitler's regime was not based primarily on intimidation by terror or surveillance by the Gestapo, but had its basis in a rather broad approval of the German population.

Writings (selection )

• The Gestapo and German society. The enforcement of the racial policy 1933-1945. Translated from English by Karl and Heidi Nicolai. 2nd edition Schöningh, Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-506-77487-5.
• A closer look and looked away. Hitler and his people. Translated from English by Holger Fliessbach. German publishing house, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-421-05582-3.
• Lenin, Stalin and Hitler. Three dictators that led Europe into the abyss. Translated from English by Heike Schlatterer and Norbert Juraschitz. Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-7857-2349-4.