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Books KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps, Camps |
Nikolaus Daniel Wachsmann (born 1971 in Munich) is professor of modern European history in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.
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Academic career

Wachsmann 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. His doctoral thesis, which he completed in 2001, was titled "Reform and repression: prisons and penal policy in Germany, 1918-1939".

In October 1998, Wachsmann began his academic career as a research fellow at Downing College, Cambridge. 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.
Personal life

He resides in Liverpool.