Peter Klein (historian)

Peter Klein (* 1962 ) is a German historian who primarily deals with the war crimes of the Wehrmacht and the Holocaust .

life and work

Peter Klein studied modern history , political science as well as book and library science in Erlangen and Berlin . Peter Klein from 1997 to 2004 as a research assistant at the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Culture of Jan Philipp Reemtsma operates. Here, among other things, Klein was in charge of the “History of the Riga Ghetto” project and was a spokesperson in the team for the “Crimes of the Wehrmacht. Dimensions of the War of Extermination 1941–1944 ” . Peter Klein is a freelance researcher at the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Educational Center and takes on historical research for ZDF and BBC . Since 2013 he has been teaching in the Holocaust Studies faculty at Touro College Berlin .

with Andrej Angrick : The “Final Solution” in Riga . Exploitation and annihilation; 1941-1944 . WBG, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-19149-8
Peter Klein (Ed.): The Einsatzgruppen in the occupied Soviet Union 1941/42. Series of publications “House of the Wannsee Conference ”, 6. Hentrich, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89468-200-0
Peter Klein: Theresienstadt: Ghetto or Concentration Camp? In: Jaroslava Milotová and Michael Wögerbauer (eds.): Theresienstädter Studies and Documents 2002. Sefer-Verlag, Prague, 2006, pp. 111–123. ISBN 80-85924-46-3
Peter Klein: The “Litzmannstadt ghetto administration” 1940 to 1944: an office in the field of tension between local bureaucracy and state policy of persecution . Hamburger Edition , Hamburg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86854-203-5
Norbert Kampe , Peter Klein (ed.): The Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942: documents, state of research, controversies. Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-21070-0