Damals

{{Short description|A monthly history magazine in Germany}}

{{For|the film|Back Then (film)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}

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| image_file = Damals 2-2015.jpg

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| image_caption = Cover of issue No. 2/2015, announcing a feature on Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth of England

| editor = Stefan Bergmann

| editor_title = Editor-in-Chief

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| frequency = Monthly

| circulation = 23,000

| category = History

| company = Konradin Medien

| publisher = Katja Kohlhammer

| founded = 1969

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| country = Germany

| based = Leinfelden-Echterdingen

| language = German

| website = {{URL|http://www.damals.de|damals.de}}

| issn = 0011-5908

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Damals is a German monthly popular scientific history magazine. The magazine has been issued since 1969 and aims primarily at students, teachers, university students, scientists and a readership interested in historical science. The German word damals means "at that time".

The editors, being established historians, archaeologists, cultural scientists and philologists, write scientifically-based articles. Each month another focus theme is portrayed. This concept distinguishes Damals from other German publications of the kind, for example G/Geschichte. The magazine also features brief book reviews, a historically-oriented television and radio programme, research news and articles on topics with a wide range of historical eras and themes. Moreover, it covers current exhibitions which are often featured in whole articles or even as theme of the month.{{cite web|url=http://www.goethe.de/wis/med/prj/dzz/ges/dam/deindex.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130217052638/http://www.goethe.de/wis/med/prj/dzz/ges/dam/deindex.htm |archive-date=17 February 2013 |title=Damals: das Magazin für Geschichte und Kultur |language=de|publisher=Goethe-Institut|access-date=25 January 2013}}

The magazine, whose scientific advisory body includes historians Christian Meier and Jürgen Osterhammel, is published by Konradin Medien GmbH of Leinfelden-Echterdingen. Katja Kohlhammer, the publishing group's executive director, is the publisher.

Abstracts of current issues, yearly tables of content and an articles archive can be viewed online. During the period of 2010-2013 Damals had a lower circulation level than other comparable history periodicals in Germany.{{cite book|author=Claudius Springkart|editor1=Susanne Popp|editor2=Jutta Schumann|editor3=Miriam Hannig|title=Commercialised History: Popular History Magazines in Europe: Approaches to a Historico-Cultural Phenomenon as the Basis for History Teaching|year=2014|publisher=Peter Lang|location=Frankfurt am Main |isbn=9783631657799|page=240|chapter-url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv9hj7qx.12|chapter=Popular History Magazines in Germany}} In the third quarter of 2015, Damals sold 23,104 copies.{{cite web|url=http://www.konradin.de/konradin/en/zeitschriften/232727.html?rubid=277744|title=Damals|publisher=Konradin publishing group|access-date=10 January 2016|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222111554/http://www.konradin.de/konradin/en/zeitschriften/232727.html?rubid=277744|archivedate=22 December 2015}}