George M. Kren was co-author, with Leon Rapoport, of \"The Holocaust and the Crisis of Human Behavior \". He received his B.A. in 1948 from Colby College, in History, Government, Economics; his M.A. in History from University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1949; and his Ph.D. in History from University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1960 where he studied with George Mosse. Dr. Kren died in 2000. He is missed by his wife Margo, many former students, colleagues, and friends.

Employment:
U. S. Army, 1944-1946
Instructor, Oberlin College, 1958-1959
Assistant Professor, Elmira College, 1959-1960
Assistant Professor, Lake Forest College, 1960-1965
Associate Professor, Kansas State University, 1965-1976
Professor, Kansas State University, 1976-2000

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

Ed., Varieties of Psychohistory. (With Leon Rappoport). Springer Publishing Co., New York, 1976.

Holocaust and the Crisis of Human Behavior. (With Leon Rappoport.) Holmes and Meier, New York, 1980.

The Holocaust and the Crisis of Human Behavior. (With Leon Rappoport.) Revised edition. Holmes and Meier, New York, 1994. This paperback edition includes additional chapters.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

\"The SS: A Social and Psychohistorical Analysis,\" in Marius Livingston, ed., International Terrorism in the Contemporary World. Greenwood Press, New York, 1978.

\"Resistance to the Holocaust,\" in Yehuda Bauer and Nathan Rotenstreich, eds., The Holocaust as Historical Experience. Holmes and Meier, New York, 1981.

\"Failures of Thought In Holocaust Interpretation,\" (with Leon Rappoport.) in Dobkowski and Wallimann, eds., Toward the Holocaust: Anti-Semitism and Fascism in Weimar Germany. Greenwood Press, New York, 1983.

\"The Holocaust as History\" in Alan Rosenberg and Gerald E. Myers, eds., Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time Temple University Press, 1988.

\"The Holocaust: Moral Theory and Immoral Acts,\" in Alan Rosenberg and Gerald E. Myers, eds., Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Times. Temple University Press, 1988.

\"The Holocaust Survivor and Psychoanalysis,\" in Paul Marcus and Alan Rosenberg, Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and their Families, Praeger Publ.Co., 1989.

Introduction and notes to Malvina Graf, The Krakow Ghetto and the Plaszow Camp, The Florida State University Press, 1989.

“The Holocaust and the Post-Modern Trend in Human Science” (With Leon Rappoport) Problems of Theoretical Pscychology, ed. C.W. Tman , F. Cherry, et.al. Captus Press, Toronto, Canada 1996, 274-279.

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES:

\"Race and Ideology,\" Phylon, XXIII: (Summer, 1962.)

\"Gustav Freytag and the Assimilation of the German Middle Class,\" American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 22:4 (October, 1963).

\"Aspects of Contemporary Nihilism,\" Journal of Value Inquiry III, (1969).

\"Political Implications of German Historicism,\" Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal VI:1 (April, 1969).

\"Clio and Psyche,\" (With Leon Rappoport) History of Childhood Quarterly, I:1 (Summer, 1973)

\"SS Atrocities: A Psychohistorical Perspective,\" (with Leon Rappoport.) History of Childhood Quarterly III:l, (Summer, 1975).

The Waffen SS,\" (with Leon Rappoport.) Armed Forces and Society, (November, 1976).

\"Psychohistorians contra the Third Reich\", The Psychohistory Review, (September, 1976).

\"Psychohistorical Interpretations of National Social Socialism,\" German Studies Review, VI:2, (Fall, 1978).

\"The Jews: The Image as Reality,\" Journal of Psychohistory, VI:3, (Winter, 1979).

\"Psychohistory and the Holocaust,\" Journal of Psychohistory, VI:3, (Winter, l979).

\"Psychohistory, Psycchobiography and the Holocaust,\" The Psychohistory Review, 13:1 (Fall, 1984) 40-45.

\"The Holocaust: Some Unresolved Issues\" Annals of Scholarship III:2 (1985), 39-61.

\"The Holocaust and the Foundation of Moral Judgement\", Journal of Value Inquiry. XXI (1987) 55-64.

\"Psychoanalysis confronts the Nazi Phemopmenon,\" Journal of Preventive Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 4:2/3 (1990)

\"Putting on Weight: The Midlife Spread of Holocaust Studies.\" With Leon Rappoport. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, volume 6, Number 1 (1991), 79-90.

\"Race and Spirituality: Arthur Dinter\'s Theosophical Antisemitism.\" With Rick Morris. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, volume 6, No.4 (1991).

\"The Literature of the Holocaust: The Last Decade.\" Choice. July/August 1992 volume 29, No.11/12, pp.1641-1648.

\"Amoral Rescuers: The Ambiguity of Goodness\" (With Leon Rappoport) Creativity Research Journal 6:1-2 (1993).

“The Holocaust and the Post-Modern Trend in Human Science” (With Leon Rappoport) Problems of Theoretical Pscychol9ogy, ed. C.W. Tolman , F. Cherry, et.al. Captus Press, Toronto, Canada 1996, 274-279.