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German professor of history (born 1955)
Peter Longerich
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Born
| Heinz Peter Longerich
1955 (age 68–69)
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Nationality
| German
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Occupation
| Historian
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Education
| University of Munich
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Notable works
| The Unwritten Order: Hitler's Role in the Final Solution
Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews
Heinrich Himmler: A Life
Goebbels: A Biography
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Heinz Peter Longerich
(born 1955) is a German professor of history and
historian
. He is regarded by
Ian Kershaw
,
Richard Evans
,
Timothy Snyder
,
Mark Roseman
and
Richard Overy
, as one of the leading German
authorities on the Holocaust
.
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Career
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Longerich studied at the
University of Munich
and received a Ph.D. in history and an M.A. in history and sociology.
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In 2002?03, Longerich was the third holder of the Visiting Chair at the
Fritz Bauer
Institute in
Frankfurt
. In 2003?04, he was J.B. and Maurice Shapiro Senior Scholar in Residence at the Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
in
Washington DC
, where he worked on a
biography
of
Heinrich Himmler
. In 2005?06, he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen.
[2]
Longerich was director of the Research Centre for the
Holocaust
and Twentieth-Century History at
Royal Holloway, University of London
(RHUL), where he worked alongside the late
David Cesarani
. In 2015, he left his position at Royal Holloway and returned to Germany. His major research interests include the history of the
Weimar Republic
, the
Third Reich
, the
Second World War
,
the Holocaust
,
Heinrich Himmler
, and
Joseph Goebbels
.
He has appeared in the media to comment upon the links between
Adolf Hitler
and the Holocaust, as well as on related topics,
[3]
and has published, in 2001, a book documenting Hitler's pivotal role in the Holocaust entitled
The Unwritten Order
. The book arose from his expert testimony at the
David Irving trial
. Reviewing Longerich's work, Timothy Snyder declared
Holocaust
"profound" and
Heinrich Himmler: A Life
"magnificent".
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Published works
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English
German
- (1989). Die braunen Bataillone. Geschichte der SA
. Beck, Munich.
ISBN
3-406-33624-8
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- (1992).
Hitlers Stellvertreter. Fuhrung der NSDAP und Kontrolle des Staatsapparates durch den Stab Heß und Bormanns Partei-Kanzlei.
K.G. Saur.
ISBN
3-598-11081-2
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- (1998).
Politik der Vernichtung. Eine Gesamtdarstellung der nationalsozialistischen Judenverfolgung
. Piper: Munich.
ISBN
3-492-03755-0
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- (1998).
Die Wannsee-Konferenz vom 20. Januar 1942. Planung und Beginn des Genozid an den Europaischen Juden
. Hentrich: Berlin.
ISBN
3-89468-250-7
.
- (2001).
Der ungeschriebene Befehl. Hitler und der Weg zur ?Endlosung“.
Piper: Munich.
ISBN
3-492-04295-3
.
- (2006).
?Davon haben wir nichts gewusst!“ Die Deutschen und die Judenverfolgung 1933?1945
. Siedler: Munich.
ISBN
3-88680-843-2
.
- (2008).
Heinrich Himmler: Eine Biographie
. Siedler: Munich.
ISBN
978-3-88680-859-5
.
- (2010).
Goebbels. Biographie
. Siedler: Munich.
ISBN
978-3-88680-887-8
.
- (2015).
Hitler. Biographie
. Siedler: Munich.
ISBN
978-3-8275-0060-1
.
- (2016).
Wannseekonferenz. Der Weg zur ?Endlosung“
. Pantheon: Munich.
ISBN
3570553442
.
- (2021).
Antisemitismus: Eine deutsche Geschichte. Von der Aufklarung bis heute
. Siedler: Munich.
ISBN
978-3-8275-0067-0
.
- (2022).
Außer Kontrolle. Deutschland 1923
. Molden, Wien 2022,
ISBN
978-3-222-15102-6
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