- Peter Longerich
Professor Peter Longerich (born 1955, in
Krefeld ,Germany ) is a German historian.In 2002-03, Professor Longerich was the third holder of the Visiting Chair at the
Fritz Bauer Institute inFrankfurt . In 2003-04, he was J.B. and Maurice Shapiro Senior Scholar in Residence at the Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies at theUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, where he worked on abiography ofHeinrich Himmler . In 2005-06, he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen.Professor Longerich is the Director of the Research Centre for the
Holocaust and Twentieth-Century History atRoyal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), where he works alongsideDavid Cesarani . His major research interests include the history of theWeimar Republic , theThird Reich , theSecond World War , the Holocaust, and Heinrich Himmler.He has appeared in the media to comment upon the links between
Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust, which he believes implicitly exist, as well as on related topics [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1452149,00.html Bunker film 'is too kind to Nazis' | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited ] ] . He published a book on this topic in 2003 titled "The Unwritten Order: Hitler's Role in theFinal Solution ". This stance has given him some notoriety amongst Holocaust deniers, and also led to his calling as a major witness in the libel trial betweenDavid Irving andDeborah Lipstadt . [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/David_Irving_v._Penguin_Books_and_Deborah_Lipstadt/VI]Historian
Ian Kershaw called Peter Longerich "one of the leading German authorities on the Holocaust and the author of an outstanding study of Nazi extermination policies". [ [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unwritten-Order-Hitlers-Final-Solution/dp/0752425641 Amazon.co.uk: The Unwritten Order: Hitler's Role in the Final Solution (History of Nazism): Books: Peter Longerich ] ]References
External links
* [http://www.rhul.ac.uk/German/About-Us/longerich.html Page on Professor Peter Longerich at RHUL German Department website]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
