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Dieter Pohl (born 1964) is a German historian and author who specialises in the Eastern European history and the history of mass violence in the 20th century.


Education and career

Dieter Pohl studied history and political science at the
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...
from 1984 to 1990, graduating with a Masters of Arts. Under the direction of , he completed his PhD dissertation ''Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien 1941–1944'' ("Nazi persecution of Jews in Eastern Galicia 1941-1944") in 1995. From 1995 to August 2010, Pohl was a researcher, and then a department head, at the Munich Institute for Contemporary History. Since September 2010, Pohl has served a professor of contemporary history at the Historical Institute at the
University of Klagenfurt The University of Klagenfurt ( or ''Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt'', AAU) is a federal Austrian research university and the largest research and higher education institution in the States of Austria, state of Carinthia. It has its campus in ...
, with a focus on Eastern and Southeastern Europe. His main research interests include the history of the Soviet Union; the Second World War in Europe and Asia; the history of communist systems after 1945; mass violence in the 20th century; Nazi occupations and violent crimes; and the contemporary history of Poland and Ukraine. Pohl served as an expert witness during the 2009 trial of
John Demjanjuk John Demjanjuk (), born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk (), was a Trawniki and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg. Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s, when he was tried and ...
, a former guard at the
Sobibor extermination camp Sobibor ( ; ) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), ...
. Pohl testified that Sobibor was a death camp, the sole purpose of which was the killing of Jews, and that all
Trawniki men During World War II, Trawniki men (; ) were Eastern European Nazi collaborators, consisting of either volunteers or recruits from Prisoner of war, prisoner-of-war camps set up by Nazi Germany for Red Army, Soviet Red Army soldiers captured in the ...
had been generalists involved in guarding the prisoners as well as other duties. Therefore, if Demjanjuk was a Trawniki man at Sobibor, he had necessarily been involved in sending the prisoners to their deaths and was an accessory to murder. Pohl's testimony, along with that of other historians', proved decisive in securing a conviction. Pohl is a member of the office of the International Committee for the History of the Second World War. He serves on the advisory board of the
Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...
-based journal ''Holocaust and Modernity'' / ''Holokost i suchasnistʹ'' ("Голокост і сучасність").


Publications

* As editor with Tanja Sebta: ''Zwangsarbeit in Hitlers Europa. Besatzung, Arbeit, Folgen.''  Metropol, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86331-129-2. * With Christian Hartmann,
Johannes Hürter Johannes Hürter (born 17 December 1963) is a German historian. He is the director of the Munich research division of the Institute of Contemporary History. His research interests focus mainly on the history of Nazi Germany and on post-war anti- ...
, Peter Lieb: ''Der deutsche Krieg im Osten 1941–1944. Facetten einer Grenzüberschreitung'' (= ''Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte.'' Bd. 76). Oldenbourg, München 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59138-5. * ''Die Herrschaft der Wehrmacht. Deutsche Militärbesatzung und einheimische Bevölkerung in der Sowjetunion 1941–1944'' (= ''Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte.'' Bd. 71). Oldenbourg, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58065-5 (Zugleich: München, Universität, Habilitations-Schrift, 2007; Taschenbuchausgabe (= ''Fischer'' 18858 ''Die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus''). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-18858-1).Review: ''Wehrmacht in der NS-Diktatur''
/ref> * With Frank Bajohr: ''Der Holocaust als offenes Geheimnis. Die Deutschen, die NS-Führung und die Alliierten.'' Beck, München 2006, ISBN 3-406-54978-0 (Taschenbuchausgabe als: ''Massenmord und schlechtes Gewissen. Die deutsche Bevölkerung, die NS-Führung und der Holocaust'' (= ''Fischer'' 17706 ''Die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus''). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-17706-6). * ''Verfolgung und Massenmord in der NS-Zeit 1933–1945.'' Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 978-3-534-15158-5 (3., bibliographisch aktualisierte Auflage. ebenda 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24026-5). * ''Justiz in Brandenburg 1945–1955. Gleichschaltung und Anpassung'' (= ''Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte.'' Bd. 50). Oldenbourg, München 2001, ISBN 3-486-56532-X. * ''Holocaust. Die Ursachen, das Geschehen, die Folgen'' (= ''Herder-Spektrum.'' 4835). Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-451-04835-3 (In niederländischer Sprache: ''Holocaust. Massale moord op de Europese joden''. Verbum, Laren NH 2005, ISBN 90-808858-1-9). * ''Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien 1941–1944. Organisation und Durchführung eines staatlichen Massenverbrechens'' (= ''Studien zur Zeitgeschichte.'' Bd. 50). Oldenbourg, München u. a. 1996, ISBN 3-486-56233-9 (Zugleich: München, Universität, Dissertation, 1994)
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* ''Von der „Judenpolitik“ zum Judenmord. Der Distrikt Lublin des Generalgouvernements 1939–1944'' (= ''Münchner Studien zur neueren und neuesten Geschichte.'' Bd. 3). Lang, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1993, ISBN 3-631-45716-2. * ''Hans Krueger and the Murder of the Jews in the Stanislawow Region (Galicia).'' In: ''Yad Vashem Studies.'' Bd. 26, 1998, , S. 239–264
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* "Introduction", in:
Vasily Grossman Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (; 12 December (29 November, Julian calendar) 1905 – 14 September 1964) was a Soviet writer and journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Grossman trained as a chemical engine ...
: ''Die Hölle von Treblinka'', Wien 2020 (= VWI-Studienreihe Band 5), ISBN 978-3-7003-2177-4, S. 5–19.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pohl, Dieter 1964 births Living people German historians of World War II German male non-fiction writers Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni 20th-century German historians 21st-century German historians Academic staff of the University of Klagenfurt Institute of Contemporary History (Munich) personnel