Kim Wünschmann Editor & Author

Dr Christopher Dillon is Senior Lecturer in Modern German History at King's College London. His research focuses on Bavaria during the Weimar and Nazi periods, with particular interest in the history of political culture, gender, and violence. He studied for his Ph.D. at Birkbeck, University of London, as part of an AHRC-funded project on the pre-war National Socialist concentration camps. His publications include the monograph Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence (Oxford University Press, 2015). Christopher is currently writing a socio-cultural history of the 1918-19 revolution in Bavaria. Dr Kim Wünschmann is Director of the Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg. She obtained her Ph.D. from Birkbeck, University of London and subsequently held positions at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, and LMU Munich. Her research centres on Holocaust Studies, European-Jewish history, legal history, and comic studies. Publications include: Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps (Harvard University Press, 2015), awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research, and co-written with Stefanie Fischer the forthcoming Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts its Nazi Past. A Graphic History (Oxford University Press).