Jan Eckel Author & Editor

Jan Eckel studied history in Germany and Spain, and received his PhD from the University of Freiburg. He is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and the Director of the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Tübingen. He has carried out archival research for this book in the US, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, and Chile, and has been awarded several prizes and fellowships for his work in intellectual history in the 'long' 20th century, the history of international politics since the late 19th century, and the history of Holocaust memory.