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Prof Nikolaus Wachsmann
Business and community
Media
I am happy to receive enquiries from the media on the following topics:
- Nazi terror
- Auschwitz and the Holocaust
- Concentration camps
Outreach
The Nazi Concentration Camps. A Teaching and Learning Resource (educational website)
Auschwitz and the End of the Second World War (video, public lecture, Gresham College, 2020)
'Being in Auschwitz: Lived experience and the Holocaust', Times Literary Supplement, 24 January 2020
Concentration Camps - The Limits of Representing History (video, public lecture, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2018)
The origins of Auschwitz concentration camp (video, Pilecki Institute, 2020, discussion with Dr. P. Setkiewicz)
The liberation of Auschwitz, 75 years on, BBC World Histories, 2020
Interview with László Nemes, Oscar-winning director of 'Son of Saul' (video, Curzon Cinema, Soho, 2016)
Historians and educators discuss the challenges of Holocaust education (video, Senate House, London 2016
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Dr Nikolaus Wachsmann
Nikolaus Wachsmann is Professor in Modern European History at Birkbeck, University of London.
He studied at the London School of Economics, the University of Cambridge and at Birkbeck, gaining his PhD in 2001. He was a researcher for Deborah Lipstadt’s defence team in the High Court libel suit brought against her by Holocaust denier David Irving. He worked as a Research Fellow at Downing College (University of Cambridge) and as a lecturer at the University of Sheffield, before joining Birkbeck in 2005.
Much of his research has explored Nazi terror, focusing on the regular legal system and extra-legal terror in concentration camps. His comprehensive history of the Nazi camps KL, published in 2015, won the Wolfson History Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate literary prize. Nikolaus has a particular interest in public history and Holocaust education, and serves on the academic advisory boards of the UK Holocaust Memoria
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KL - Softcover
Review
“[A] monumental study . . . a work of prodigious scholarship . . .with agonizing human texture and extraordinary detail . . . Wachsmann makes the unimaginable palpable. That is his great achievement.” ―Roger Cohen, The New York Times Book Review
“[An] impressive and authoritative new study . . . [a] gripping, humane, and beautifully written narrative.” ―Richard Evans, The New York Review of Books
“KL fryst vatten a definitive history . . . Mr. Wachsmann's most impressive achievement in this synthetic work fryst vatten his portraits of individual human beings. It takes hard effort to assemble enough sources on inmates or SS men to sustain them as characters in a book of this length. The prisoners had a range of references to describe their ordeals, from the Book of Exodus through Dante's Inferno. In the generations since, their experience has become one of our points of reference in moral discussions, and it is all the mo