Tatjana Tönsmeyer (born 1968) is a German historian who studies

Germany–Slovakia relations German–Slovak relations are foreign relations between Germany and Slovakia. Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1993 but previously had relations during World War II when Slovakia was a separate state, the Slovak Republic (1939� ...

and Central European history. She is currently a professor at the

University of Wuppertal The University of Wuppertal (''Universität Wuppertal'') is a German scientific institution located in Wuppertal in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The university's official name in German is ''Bergische Universität Wuppertal'' ...

. Her first book, ''Das Dritte Reich und die Slowakai'', was based on her

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, while ''Adelige Moderne'' is based on her

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. ''Das Dritte Reich und die Slowakei'', which focused in particular on the "advisors" Germany sent to Slovakia, received positive to mixed reviews; some reviewers thought that she ignored recent Slovak scholarship in favor of dated German scholarship.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tonsmeyer, Tatjana Historians of Slovakia Historians of Nazism 21st-century German historians Academic staff of the University of Wuppertal Living people 1968 births