National Economies: Volks-Wirtschaft, Racism and Economy in Europe between the Wars (1918-1939/45)

About Christoph Kreutzmueller

Christoph Kreutzmueller studied History and English in Berlin and in the UK and obtained a PhD on German banks in the Netherlands (19191945) in 2004. From 2005 to 2010 he coordinated a research project on the destruction of Jewish commercial activity in Berlin between 1930 and 1945 at the Humboldt University in Berlin. This was followed by a research project on the history of Berlins National Socialism at the same university. Since 2013 he has been a Senior Researcher of the House of the Wannsee Conference Berlin. His main fields of interest are economic history of the Holocaust and photo-history. A translation of his study on Jewish-owned businesses in Berlin has been published as Final Sale in Berlin: The destruction of Jewish commercial activity 19301945.Michael Wildt studied History Cultural Studies and Theology at the University of Hamburg. He obtained his PhD 1991 with a thesis on the consumer society in Germany after World War II. He served as a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and the International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem Jerusalem from 1993 until 2009. He has been Professor for Modern German History at the Humboldt University in Berlin since 2009. His main areas of research are National Socialism the Holocaust anti-Semitism and the history of violence in the 20th century.Moshe Zimmermann is Emeritus Professor of German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem having previously served as the Director of the Richard-Koebner-Center for German History at the same university between 1986 and 2012. He is the author of many publications in German English and Hebrew about nationalism anti-Semitism the history of sport film-history and German-Jewish history.