Jochen Böhler

Jochen Böhler listen (born 1969 in Rheinfelden) is a German historian, specializing in the military history of World War II, the Third Reich, the German occupation of Poland 1939–45, and the research on the perpetrators of the Holocaust. He is the recipient of several international awards.[1][2]

Jochen Böhler
Jochen Böhler, 2009
Born1969
Rheinfelden (Baden)
NationalityGerman
EducationUniversity of Cologne
OccupationHistorian
Known forWorld War II research
Home townRheinfelden

Professional career

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.[2] His PhD was finished at the same university in 2004.[2]

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 he has worked in the German Historical Institute in Warsaw.[2] Between 2003 and 2004 he was a Fellow in Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.[3] Since January 2008, Böhler served as the Baron Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim Fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem.[2]

Books and publications
  • Böhler, Jochen (2006). Auftakt zum Vernichtungskrieg. Die Wehrmacht in Polen 1939. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer. ISBN 978-3-596-16307-6.
  • Böhler, Jochen (2013), (ed. with Stephan Lehnstaedt) Die Berichte der Einsatzgruppen aus Polen 1939: Vollständige Edition. Berlin: Metropol, ISBN 978-3863311384.
  • Böhler, Jochen (2012), (ed. with Stephan Lehnstaedt) Gewalt und Alltag im besetzten Polen 1939–1945, Publications of the German Historical Institute Warsaw; 26. Osnabrück: Fibre, ISBN 978-3-938400-70-8.
  • Böhler, Jochen (2010), (ed. with Jacek Andrzej Młynarczyk) Der Judenmord in den eingegliederten polnischen Gebieten 1939–1945, Osnabrück: Fibre, ISBN 978-3-938400-51-7.
  • Böhler, Jochen (2009), Der Überfall. Deutschlands Krieg gegen Polen. Frankfurt: Eichborn, ISBN 3-821-85706-4.
  • Böhler, Jochen (2008), (with Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Jürgen Matthäus) Einsatzgruppen in Polen. Darstellung und Dokumentation, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, ISBN 978-3-534-21353-5.
  • Böhler, Jochen (2006), Intention oder Situation? Soldaten der Wehrmacht und die Anfänge des Vernichtungskrieges in Polen. In: Timm C. Richter: Krieg und Verbrechen. Situation und Intention: Fallbeispiele. Reihe: Villa ten Hompel aktuell, 9. München.
  • Böhler, Jochen (2006), Auftakt zum Vernichtungskrieg. Die Wehrmacht in Polen 1939, Schriftenreihe der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bd. 550, Bonn, ISBN 3-89331-679-5 & Fischer TB, Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 3-596-16307-2.
  • Böhler, Jochen (2005), "Größte Härte…" Verbrechen der Wehrmacht in Polen September–Oktober 1939. Ausstellungskatalog, Hamburg: Fibre, ISBN 3-938400-07-2.

References
  1. Böhler, Jochen (2009), Zbrodnie Wehrmachtu w Polsce. Wrzesień 1939 [Wehrmacht Atrocities in Poland. September 1939] (PDF) (in Polish), translated by Patrycja Pieńkowska-Wiederkehr, Wydawnictwo Znak, ISBN 9788324012251, archived from the original (PDF file, direct download 432 KB) on 13 October 2013, retrieved 20 January 2014, from German original: Auftakt zum Vernichtungskrieg: Die Wehrmacht in Polen 1939, ISBN 3596163072CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Dr Jochen Böhler Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  3. Jochen Böhler United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
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