Geoffrey P. Megargee
Geoffrey Preaut Megargee (* 1959 ) is an American historian .
Life
Megargee received her PhD in military history in 1998 . Since January 2000 he has been an Applied Research Scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . He wrote an analysis of the High Command of the Wehrmacht and is the editor of an encyclopedia of the camps and ghettos in the Third Reich .
Fonts (selection)
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Inside Hitler's High Command. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence 2000, ISBN 0-7006-1015-4 .
- German: Hitler and the Generals. The struggle for the leadership of the Wehrmacht 1933-1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-506-75633-8 .
- War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham (MD) 2006, ISBN 0-7425-4481-8 .
- (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. 7 volumes planned, 3 published so far. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2009/2012/2018, ISBN 978-0-253-35328-3 , ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7 .
Web links
- Eric Lichtblau: The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking . Review (English). In: New York Times, March 1, 2013 Online at www.nytimes.com.
- We didn't even cover all of the Nazi camps. 42,500 sites of Nazi terror - have thousands of them been undiscovered? No, says historian Geoffrey Megargee in an interview. Only nobody put the puzzle together . Interview. In: Die Zeit from March 4, 2013. Online at www.zeit.de.
- Lydia Klöckner: Benz criticizes "megalomania" from US Holocaust study . Interview. In: Die Zeit from March 7, 2013. Online at www.zeit.de.
- Lydia Klöckner: Megargee rejects criticism of the Holocaust study With a corrigendum on the number of camps that Die Zeit initially mentioned. In: Die Zeit from March 8, 2013. Online at www.zeit.de.
- Katja Tichomirowa: Much more camp than expected . In Frankfurter Rundschau on March 6, 2013. Online at www.fr-online.de.
- Introduction: US researchers spent 13 years looking for concentration camps, prisoner of war camps and Nazi ghettos from the years 1933 to 1945. In the end, they count 42,500 sites of violence. Even proven experts are surprised and find the number "unbelievable".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Info on Amazon.com
- ↑ Geoffrey Megargee ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on ushmm.org (Retrieved October 6, 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Megargee, Geoffrey P. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Megargee, Geoffrey Preaut (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |