Henk de Berg

Henk de Berg is Professor of German at the University of Sheffield in the UK with particular expertise in political communication and German political culture, above all the AfD and the sociology and psychology of far-right populism. He has also taught, lectured, and written on the rise of Hitler in the 1920s and 1930s and on the National Socialist era. Henk de Berg is the author of four monographs—including Freud’s Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies, which received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award and has been translated into three European languages as well as Chinese—and the co-editor of eight collections of essays in literary and cultural studies. His most recent book is Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying, which argues that it is historically misleading to see Trump as a fascist, but that one can draw parallels between the circumstances Hitler and Trump exploited to come to power (economic upheaval, dented national confidence, social division, male anxiety, loss of faith in the political establishment, and an enabling conservative elite) and also that the two men similar rhetorical strategies.