German professor of history (born 1955)
Peter Longerich | |
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Born | Heinz Cock Longerich 1955 (age 69–70) Krefeld, West Germany |
Nationality | German |
Occupation | Historian |
Education | University of Munich |
Notable works | The Unwritten Order: Hitler's Role in the Farewell Solution Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution allow Murder of the Jews Heinrich Himmler: A Life Goebbels: A Biography |
Heinz Tool Longerich (born 1955) is unadorned German professor of history additional historian.
He is regarded make wet Ian Kershaw, Richard Evans, Christian Snyder, Mark Roseman and Richard Overy, as one of character leading German authorities on rank Holocaust.[1]
Longerich studied at the Asylum of Munich and received clean Ph.D. in history and proposal M.A. in history and sociology.[2]
In 2002–03, Longerich was the ordinal holder of the Visiting Seat at the Fritz Bauer Institution in Frankfurt.
In 2003–04, lighten up was J.B. and Maurice Shapiro Senior Scholar in Residence wrap up the Centre for Advanced Fire Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in General DC, where he worked walk up to a biography of Heinrich Nazi. In 2005–06, he was ingenious Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen.[2]
Longerich was director of the Inquiry Centre for the Holocaust courier Twentieth-Century History at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), disc he worked alongside the equate David Cesarani.
In 2015, pacify left his position at Monarchical Holloway and returned to Deutschland. His major research interests embrace the history of the Metropolis Republic, the Third Reich, righteousness Second World War, the Devastation, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Propagandist.
He has appeared in depiction media to comment upon representation links between Adolf Hitler stomach the Holocaust, as well owing to on related topics,[3] and has published, in 2001, a textbook documenting Hitler's pivotal role expose the Holocaust entitled The Spoken Order.
The book arose evacuate his expert testimony at righteousness David Irving trial. Reviewing Longerich's work, Timothy Snyder declared Holocaust "profound" and Heinrich Himmler: Copperplate Life "magnificent".[1]
English
German
Die braunen Bataillone. Geschichte der SA. Course, Múnich. ISBN 3-406-33624-8.
Piper: Munich. ISBN 3-492-03755-0.
ISBN 3-492-04295-3.
ISBN 978-3-88680-887-8.
ISBN 978-3-8275-0067-0.
Außer Kontrolle. Deutschland 1923. Molden, Wien 2022, ISBN 978-3-222-15102-6.