Jeffrey S. Richter

Title:	Professorial Lecturer
Email:	[email protected]

Jeffrey Richter specializes in the history of Germany, the Holocaust, and genocide. From 1998 to 2010 he served as a historian in the Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit, the Office of Special Investigations.

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1998

Publications

“Der deutsche Polizeibegriff im Kreuzfeuer: Die Neulegung der Grenzen zwischen Verwaltung und Polizei durch die britische Besatzungsmacht.” In Nachkriegspolizei. Sicherheit und Ordnung in Ost- und Westdeutschland, 1945-1969, ed. Gerhard Fürmetz et al., 35-50. Hamburg: Ergebnisse-Verlag, 2001.

“Infanticide, Child Abandonment, and Abortion in Imperial Germany.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28, no. 4 (Spring 1998): 511-51.

Classes Taught

Hist 1120: European Civilization in Its World Context
Hist 3101: The Genocide of the Jews
Hist 3601: The Holocaust

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