Martin Christopher Dean (born 1962) is a research scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies,
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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. He formerly worked as an historian at the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit,
Scotland Yard
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.
Dean was born in London on March 14, 1962. He received a
Doctor of Philosophy
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in history from
Queens' College, Cambridge
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.
Selected publications
*"The German Gendarmerie, the Ukrainian Schutzmannschaft and the 'Second Wave' of Jewish Killings in Occupied Ukraine: German Policing at the Local Level in the Zhitomir Region, 1941-1944". ''
German History
The concept of Germany as a distinct region in Central Europe can be traced to Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as ''Germania'', thus distinguishing it from Gaul. The victory of the Cherusci, Germanic tribes ...
'', 14 (2) (1996): 168–192.
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*''Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the local police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941–1944''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
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Confiscation of Jewish property in Europe, 1933–1945, new sources and perspectives'. Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, 2003. (Foreword with
Paul A. Shapiro)
*''Robbery and restitution: The conflict over Jewish property in Europe''.
Berghahn Books
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, 2007. (Editor with
Constantin Goschler and
Philipp Ther)
*''Robbing the Jews: The confiscation of Jewish property in the Holocaust, 1933-1945''.
Cambridge University Press
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, 2008.
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945: Ghettos in German-occupied Eastern Europe Volume II''.
Indiana University Press
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, 2012. (volume editor)
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Awards
* 2008:
National Jewish Book Award
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in the Writing Based on Archival Material category for Robbing the Jews
References
Weblinks
HomepageMartin C. Deanat
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Academia.edu
Living people
Historians of the Holocaust
1962 births
Historians of Nazism
British historians
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
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