Peter Longerich

Peter Longerich is professor of modern German history at Royal Holloway University of London and founder of the College's Holocaust Research Centre. An internationally renowned authority on the Nazis, he has published widely on the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, including Holocaust: The Nazi Murder and Persecution of the Jews, which is widely recognized as the standard account of the Nazi machinery of mass murder and the steps by which it unfolded, and Himmler, described by the London Review of Books as "one of the landmark Nazi biographies."