Oliver Lubrich is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Berne in Switzerland. He has published monographs on Shakespeare and on post-colonial poetics. Most recently he published W. E. B. Du Bois’ reports from Germany of 1936 (2022) and an intellectual biography of Alexander von Humboldt (2022).

“Professor Lubrich has written a brilliant Introduction that examines both the background to Kennedy's travels in 1937 and provides a preview of his subsequent visits to Germany in 1939, 1945, and 1963." • Philip Cassier, Welt am Sonntag

• AcknowledgementsAbout this bookIntroduction: “Hitler seems so popular here”: John F. Kennedy’s Travels in Germany Between Insight and MisperceptionOliver LubrichEditorial PrinciplesImages 1939-1945John F. Kennedy—European Diary, July—September 1937Kirk LeMoyne Billings—Scrapbook, 1937Images 1937Travel Itinerary and TimetableBibliography

Oliver Lubrich is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Berne in Switzerland. He has published monographs on Shakespeare and on post-colonial poetics. Most recently he published W. E. B. Du Bois’ reports from Germany of 1936 (2022) and an intellectual biography of Alexander von Humboldt (2022).

“Professor Lubrich has written a brilliant Introduction that examines both the background to Kennedy's travels in 1937 and provides a preview of his subsequent visits to Germany in 1939, 1945, and 1963." • Philip Cassier, Welt am Sonntag

• AcknowledgementsAbout this bookIntroduction: “Hitler seems so popular here”: John F. Kennedy’s Travels in Germany Between Insight and MisperceptionOliver LubrichEditorial PrinciplesImages 1939-1945John F. Kennedy—European Diary, July—September 1937Kirk LeMoyne Billings—Scrapbook, 1937Images 1937Travel Itinerary and TimetableBibliography

Oliver Lubrich is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Berne in Switzerland. He has published monographs on Shakespeare and on post-colonial poetics. Most recently he published W. E. B. Du Bois’ reports from Germany of 1936 (2022) and an intellectual biography of Alexander von Humboldt (2022).

“Professor Lubrich has written a brilliant Introduction that examines both the background to Kennedy's travels in 1937 and provides a preview of his subsequent visits to Germany in 1939, 1945, and 1963." • Philip Cassier, Welt am Sonntag

• AcknowledgementsAbout this bookIntroduction: “Hitler seems so popular here”: John F. Kennedy’s Travels in Germany Between Insight and MisperceptionOliver LubrichEditorial PrinciplesImages 1939-1945John F. Kennedy—European Diary, July—September 1937Kirk LeMoyne Billings—Scrapbook, 1937Images 1937Travel Itinerary and TimetableBibliography