Nathan Stoltzfus is an American historian and as of 2021[update] Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies in the history department at Florida State University.
[citation needed] Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany (1996)[5][6] was co-recipient of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History.
[7] American historian Walter Laqueur wrote in his foreword that "Stoltzfus is the first to investigate the events leading to the protest systematically and in depth, [including] interviews with surviving participants and eyewitnesses... and it is to Dr. Stoltzfus's great credit that he has saved from oblivion some of these unsung heroes".
Die Zeit reported in 2013 that the protest action in the Rosenstrasse was a long almost forgotten episode of Nazi history, but when Stoltzfus wrote about it, he unleashed an "ongoing controversy".
[8] He has contributed to other books including Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany[9] (Princeton University Press, 2001), co-edited with Robert Gellately; Shades of Green: Environmental Activism around the Globe[10] (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), co-edited with Doug Weiner and Christof Mauch, Courageous Resistance: The Power of Ordinary People[11] (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007), co-authored with five professors of history, political science, and sociology; Nazi Crimes and the Law[12] (Cambridge University Press, 2008), co-edited with Henry Friedlander.