Peter Longerich

Peter Longerich ( born 1955 in Krefeld, Germany ) is a German historian.

Longerich received his doctorate in 1983 under Gerhard A. Ritter at the University of Munich with a thesis on the Press Department of the Foreign Office under Ribbentrop. From the contemporary reception was praised at Long Eric's thesis that he has a " research gap closed" did with his profound study " on their own " operated foreign propaganda of the Foreign Office, as previous work had been fixed almost exclusively on Joseph Goebbels ' propaganda apparatus. Today's criticism of Long Eric dissertation concerns the fact that its content is on the propaganda proposals of the Head of the Press Department of the Foreign Office Paul Karl Schmidt on May 27, 1944 concealment of the Holocaust " does not enter, though he was aware of them ."

From 1984 to 1989, Longerich assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. 2002/ 03 he was a visiting professor at the Fritz Bauer Institute, and then conducted research in 2003/ 04 as JB and Maurice Shapiro Senior Scholar in Residence at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. He is a professor at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University and the Director of The Research Centre for the Holocaust and Twentieth - Century History.

Longerich is a specialist in the history of Nazi Germany and particularly the Holocaust.

Writings (selection )

Monographs

  • Propagandists during the war. The Press Department of the Foreign Office under Ribbentrop. Oldenbourg, München 1987, ISBN 3486541110 ( Studies on Contemporary History, Vol 33).
  • The brown battalions. History of SA. Beck, Munich, 1989, ISBN 3406336248th
  • Hitler's deputy. Leadership of the NSDAP and control of the state apparatus by the rod Hess and Bormann Party Chancellery. K.G. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3598110812th
  • Policy of extermination. An overall view of the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Piper, Munich 1998, ISBN 3492037550th
  • The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942. Scheduling and the beginning of the genocide of the European Jews. Ed. Hentrich, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3894682507
  • The Unwritten command. Hitler and the path to the " Final Solution." Piper, Munich 2001, ISBN 3,492,042,953th
  • " We did not know anything! " Germans and the Holocaust 1933-1945. Siedler, Munich 2006, ISBN 3,886,808,432th
  • Heinrich Himmler: A Biography. Siedler Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3886808595.
  • Goebbels. Biography. Siedler Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-88680-887-8.

Editorial Boards

  • The murder of the European Jews. A comprehensive documentation of the Holocaust, 2nd ed, Piper, Munich, 1989, ISBN 3492110606th
  • The First Republic: Documents on the history of the Weimar state. Piper, Munich 1992, ISBN 3492114296
  • " What is the German's fatherland? " Documents on the question of German unity. , 4th edition, Piper, Munich 1996, ISBN 3,492,112,692th
  • Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. 3 vols, Piper, Munich 1998, ISBN 3492227007 ( with Eberhard Jäckel and Julius H. Schoeps, first argon, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3870243007 ).
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