Nikolaus Wachsmann

Nikolaus Wachsmann was born in Munich, Germany. He obtained a PhD in History from Birbeck College at the University of London and was a joint winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. He is Professor of Modern European History, School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck. KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps won the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize and the Wolfson History Prize