Konrad Kwiet

Konrad Kwiet (born May 29, 1941 in Swinoujscie ) is a German-Australian historian .

Life

Kwiet studied history and political science in Berlin and Amsterdam. He received his doctorate in 1967 at the Free University of Berlin and completed his habilitation in 1974 at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1976 he accepted a position at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Konrad Kwiet is Professor Emeritus for German and European Studies at Macquarie University , Australia , and for Jewish Studies in Sydney . He headed the Australian crimes commission (SIU) and works at the Sydney Jewish Museum and was a historical expert in the Australian Ministry of Justice to investigate Nazi war crimes. In the 2001/2002 winter semester he taught at the TU Berlin as a visiting professor at the Center for Research on Antisemitism. He published important books and specialist articles on aspects of the persecution of Jews in Europe under the Nazi regime .

Fonts (selection)

• Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust . With Jürgen Matthäus . Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut 2004, ISBN 9780275974664 . Also as an e-book.
• Training target for murdering Jews? On the importance of the "ideological education" of the SS and police in the context of the "final solution" . Together with Jürgen Matthäus and Jürgen Förster , Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt / Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-15016-7 .
• Deployment in the 'Reichkommissariat Ostland' - documents on the genocide in the Baltic States and Belarus 1941–1944 . Together with Wolfgang Benz and Jürgen Matthäus. Metropol, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932482-01-8 .
• Max Joseph - Life path of a German-Jewish emigrant , in: Rainer Erb , Michael Schmidt (Ed.): Anti-Semitism and Jewish history: studies in honor of Herbert A. Strauss . Scientific authors' publishing house, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88840-248-4 , pp. 231-242.
• Assertion and Resistance - German Jews in the Struggle for Existence and Human Dignity 1933–1945 . With Helmut Eschwege , Christians, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-7672-0850-4 . Belongs to: Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history; Vol. 19.
• Reichskommissariat Netherlands - Attempt and failure of the National Socialist reorganization . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1968. As a dissertation under the title Kwiet, Konrad: The establishment of the German civil administration in the Netherlands and the beginnings of their Nazification policy . In: University publications of the FU Berlin.

Web links

• Literature by and about Konrad Kwiet in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.idea-society.org/img/Buch_Zeitbruecke/Zeitbruecke.htm
2. ↑ http://zfa.kgw.tu-berlin.de/kvv/ws01.pdf
3. ↑ http://zfa.kgw.tu-berlin.de/chronik.htm