Fabrice d'Almeida

Who is Fabrice d'Almeida?

Fabrice d'Almeida is a French historian. He is a specialist of image propaganda and manipulation.

After his master degree in the Sorbonne and the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, he became Ph.D at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense. As fellow of the École française de Rome, he started many studies about socialism in France and Italy and was therefore one of the first comparative historian in France. For those reasons, he was invited at the TU-Berlin in Germany as guest professor and received a Alexander von Humbolt fellowship in the FU-Berlin, under the supervision of Jürgen Kocka and Harmut Kaelble. He spent two years in Berlin at the Marc Bloch Center. Back in Paris he was promoted director of the Institut d’histoire du temps présent and was then elected a full professor at Pantheon-Assas University. He is now the director of the Master Media and globalization.

His work with Antony Rowley Et si on refaisait l’histoire ? is a reflexion about French history. It is one of the first « what if ? » in France.

The public discovered him in several documentaries and TV films such as Love hate and propaganda.

His book High Society Under the Third Reich is the first systematic study of the relations between German high society and the Nazis. It uses unpublished archival material, private diaries and diplomatic documents to explore the hidden areas of power where privileges, tax breaks, and stolen property were exchanged. His last published book in France focuses on the management of the SS concentration camps guards.