David Pike

Professor David Wingeate Pike (Contemporary History and Politics) has just sent to press a work on the Channel Islands under Nazi occupation, which he wrote in collaboration with his former student Anne Farache, whose father was sent to Aurigny as a slave laborer and was one of the few to survive. This work will appear in three parts in the Paris quarterly Guerres Mondiales and will be published later in book form.

On October 30th- November 1st, Professor Pike will take part in an international conference on the theme of "Foreign Intervention in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)", hosted in Lisbon, Portugal by the Instituto de História Contemporânea (Contemporary History Institute). He will be keynote speaker for France on October 31, with a presentation on the topic: "France: the Limits of Intervention and the Agony of Non-intervention".

See conference program

Dr. David Pike, our faculty specialist of contemporary history and the author of many books on World War II and the Spanish Civil War, has been invited to share his expertise with audiences in multiple countries over the past few months.

On April 3-4, Dr. Pike was invited by Minnesota State University to give three talks: "The role of Spain in the Second World War," "The King versus the Constitution: British support for American resistance, 1766-1783," and "The SS archipelago." More information on the MNSU website

Also in April, he spoke at the Sandhurst Conference in the UK, in the series "1944: Seventy Years On," on the subject of "The final year in the worst of all camps." See conference program

In July Dr. Pike will attend a conference in Castellammare di Stabia in Italy (south of Naples) to speak on "The Channel Islands under Nazi occupation," and in November in Lisbon, Portugal he will speak on French policy toward Spain in 1936-1939.

On October 11, 2014, he is invited by the Mayor of Paris, France to speak at the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall), during aan event celebrating the role of the Spanish Republicans in the Resistance in France and the liberation of Paris.

Dr. David Pike, AGS Professor and AUP Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History and Politics, will speak on Friday, April 6 on the topic:
“The Nazi Universe: The SS Archipelago.”

Venue: April 6: 13:45 – 15:00.
6, rue du Colonel Combes, Paris 7. Salle 31.

All who are interested are welcome to attend.

Professor Pike will speak of daily life in a Nazi death camp, based on the seven book that he has published in five languages. He will also speak on his feature film The Eyes of Mauthausen that is moving into production next month, to be shot in Munich and Czech Republic

SS Secretarial Staff (click to enlarge):

David Pike’s new book, Franco y el Eje Roma-Berlín-Tokio: una alianza no firmada, has just been published in Madrid, Spain by Editorial Alianza.  It includes sixteen photographs, most of them up to now unpublished, of Hitler’s and Mussolini’s inner circles; the photos were supplied by Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich and Cinecittà Luce in Rome. The new work is not a simple translation of the 2008 Macmillan edition. Not only revisions but also reflections have been introduced, and it opens with a Prologue to the Spanish Reader that describes the experiences of the author while living in Murcia, Seville and Cordoba in the mid-1950s under the Franco regime.

Dr. David W. Pike's new book Franco and the Axis Stigma was published in May, 2008 by Macmillan (UK). It is about the Spanish Dictator, Francisco Franco, and the legacy of his collaboration with the Fascists and Nazis in World War II.

Dr Pike also recently published an article on Hitler's plan to invade Ireland in the French quarterly Guerres Mondiales (January-March 2008 issue).