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Jochen Böhler
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Jochen Böhler (born 1969 in Rheinfelden) is a German historian, specializing in the history of Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th century, especially the World Wars, the Holocaust, nationality and borderland studies. He is the recipient of several international awards. and known to a larger audience due to frequent appearances in TV productions and articles in national newspapers such as, for example, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung or DIE ZEIT. His main thesis on the beginning of WWII and the end of WWI in Eastern Europe has been discussed vividly in German, English, and Polish academic circles.
Böhler grew up in Switzerland, the Ruhr, Ghana, the Black Forest, and Trier at the trijunction of France, Luxembourg, and Germany.
Böhler obtained a Magister's degree at University of Cologne in 1999, where he specialized in modern and medieval history, as well as ethnology and political economy. His Magisterial thesis, Wehrmacht war crimes in Poland, won a departmental award. His PhD was finished at the same university in 2004. It was published simultaneously as paperback by the S. Fischer Verlag in its relevant 'black series' on the history of the Third Reich and by the state funded Federal Agency for Civic Education for educational purposes.
He is a member of the German Committee for the History of the Second World War and of the Working Group on Military History. From 2000 to 2010 he has worked in the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Between 2003 and 2004 he was a Fellow in Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. In 2017/2008, Böhler served as the Baron Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim Fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem.
Böhler also worked from 2006 to 2009 as a historical expert for the State Social Court of North Rhine-Westphalia on cases concerning the Ghetto Pension Act and was a co-signatory of the Historians' Appeal, which warned of "worrying misguided developments" with regard to the interpretation of the law by German pension funds.
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