Karla Poewe

Karla Poewe is a socio-cultural anthropologist who received her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 1976. She has conducted both fieldwork and archival research in Zambia 1973-1975, Namibia 1981-1983, South Africa 1987-1991, and since the 1990s in Germany. Her research interests range from the problems of economic development, religion, and kinship to the complex dynamics of war. In 2006, she published her book on the development of National Socialism, which was a radical political religious force intent on eliminating all traces of the Judeo-Christian tradition from Europe. Currently, she is working on post-World War II refugeeism. Poewe was born in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), East Prussia. Following the August 1944 bombing of that city her family fled. She experienced a few years of life in the Russian and the British Zones before arriving in Canada 1955.