Michael Fleming is a British historian and professor at the Polish University Abroad in London."University authorities"
The Polish University Abroad in London. Fleming is the author of ''National Minorities in Post-Communist Poland'' (2003); ''Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944–1950'' (2009); ''Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust'' (2014); and ''In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice'' (2022).

Education and career

Fleming graduated from the

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and obtained his DPhil from the

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. He has held teaching positions at Jesus College, Oxford,

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, the Academy of Humanities and Economics,

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, and the University of Warwick. He was a visiting researcher in

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at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, and in Pułtusk at the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities.

Holocaust research

In ''Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust'', Fleming seeks to show that the Allies knew in 1942 what was happening inside the German extermination camps. The Vrba-Wetzler report, written by two escapees from the

Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 Nazi concentration camps, concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) d ...

and distributed from April 1944, was not "the watershed moment in Allied knowledge of what was happening to the Jews inside Auschwitz, as is generally believed", writes Norman J. W. Goda in a review of Fleming's book. The '' Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs'' described the book as "undoubtedly one of the most important in the study of

the Holocaust The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...

in the last twenty years".

Awards

Fleming shared the Aquila Polonica Prize in 2011 and the Kulczycki Book Prize in 2015.

Selected works

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Notes

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