Susanne Willems

Susanne Willems (born 1959 ) is a German historian and author.

Life

From 1977, Susanne Willems studied law and history in Freiburg and Bochum. In 1980 and 1981, she served in the United States' Voluntary Social Peace Service with the Anti Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, New York City , and the Community for Creative Non Violence, Washington, DC , in facilities for the homeless. From 1982 she continued her studies at the Ruhr University Bochum in the subjects of Modern History, East and Southeast European History, Constitutional and International Law, which she completed with an MA in 1986 . In 1999 she received her doctorate as Dr. phil. She was a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation , the Hans Böckler Foundation and the Robert Goldmann Scholarship from the city of Reinheim.

After working as a research assistant and lecturer in Bochum, she was the head of the information and advice center for victims of Nazi persecution in Cologne (1990–1991) and from 1995 a freelance historian. She worked as a DAAD lecturer at the Voronezh University of Education and the Academy for the Judiciary of the Russian Federation (2004–2008) and, from 2011, as a lecturer at the Chair of 20th Century German History at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

On a voluntary basis, she took on functions at state and federal level in the youth association board work (1983–1987), in the presidium of the Evangelical Church Congress (1987–1997), on the board of the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (1992–1995) and 1994–2003 on the board of the Foundation for the international youth meeting place Auschwitz in Oswiecim / Poland (1994–2003).

Awards

• Cavalier Cross of the Republic of Poland (2005)

Fonts

Monographs

• Lothar Kreyssig. From your own responsible behavior. A biographical study on the protest against euthanasia crimes in Nazi Germany, Berlin 1995
• The resettled Jew. Albert Speer's housing market policy for the Berlin capital construction (publications by the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Education Center, Vol. 10), Berlin 2002
• Auschwitz. The history of the extermination camp, Berlin 2015
• The resettled Jew. Albert Speer's housing market policy for the Berlin capital building , 2nd edition, Das Neue Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-360-01332-3 .

Editorships

• with Hans Mommsen , everyday rule in the Third Reich. Studies and texts, Düsseldorf 1988

Book and magazine articles

• Sick murders in the Nazi era and the reaction of the churches, presentation, conference of the Ev. Bildungswerkes Berlin (West), June 1988, in: 'Euthanasia' - killing on whose request ?, Documentation 64/89 of the Ev. Bildungswerk Berlin, pp. 22–39
• Assessment of the various interpretations of the Nazi genocides, lecture at the International Colloquium on the initiative of the Auschwitz Foundation, Brussels, in November 1988, in: Révision de l'histoire. Totalitarismes, crimes et génocides nazis, ed. v. Yannis Thanassekos and Heinz Wismann, Paris 1990, pp. 97-106
• Resistance by faith. Lothar Kreyssig and the euthanasia crime, in: Persecution - Everyday Life - Resistance. Brandenburg in the Nazi era, ed. by Dietrich Eichholtz in collaboration with Almuth Püschel, Berlin 1993, pp. 383-410
• The persecution of the Jews in Bochum and Wattenscheid. The years 1933 to 1945 in reports, pictures and documents, collective of authors (= series of publications on the antifascist history of Bochum No. 4, published by the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime / Bund der Antifaschisten, Kreisvereinigung Bochum), Bochum 1993
• The redesign of Berlin as the Reich capital - at the expense of Berlin's Jews 1938 to 1942, in: Bulletin for Fascism and World War Research, Berlin, issue 10/1998, pp. 3–22
• Recognition and compensation for Sinti and Roma. On the Persistence of Racist Exclusion in Germany after 1945 (Contribution to the international conference of the State Museum Auschwitz on 'Sinti and Roma in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau and their fate 1933-1945', December 1991) proceedings, ed. by Waclaw Dlugoborski, Oswiecim 1998, pp. 366-377
• Slave labor for Siemens in Ravensbrück, in: Death or Survival? New research on the history of the Ravensbrück concentration camp (Bulletin for Fascism and World War Research, Supplements, Vol. 1), Berlin 2001, pp. 7–23
• Monowitz. in: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (Ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , pp. 276-284.

Individual evidence

1. ^ All information according to: HP Geschichtsbüro Susanne Willems