Nikolaus Daniel Wachsmann (born 1971) is a professor of modern European history in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Nikolaus Wachsmann | |
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Born | Nikolaus Daniel Wachsmann 1971 (age 52–53) |
Nationality | German |
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Thesis | Reform and Repression: Prisons and Penal Policy in Germany, 1918–1939 (2001) |
Academic advisors | Richard J. Evans |
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Discipline | Modern European history, penology, Nazi concentration camps |
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Wachsmann was born in Munich. He graduated from the London School of Economics with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree, from the University of Cambridge with a taught Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree, and from the University of London with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree.[1] His doctoral thesis, which he completed in 2001, was titled "Reform and Repression: Prisons and Penal Policy in Germany, 1918–1939".[2]
In October 1998, Wachsmann began his academic career as a research fellow at Downing College, Cambridge.[3] He was then a lecturer at the University of Sheffield. In 2005, he joined the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology of Birkbeck, University of London.[1]
He is the author of the 2004 book, Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany and the 2015 book KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps.[4]
He is currently writing a new history of Auschwitz. [5]