Curriculum Vitae

Peter Black, Dr., Senior Historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum since 1997. Between 1978 and 1997, he was initially a historian and later became the chief historian at the Office of Special Investigations in the Prosecutor’s department of the U.S. Department of Justice. This office is responsible for investigations into alleged Nazi Regime perpetrators in the United States. Born in 1950, Peter Black earned his doctoral degree in German and Eastern European history from Columbia University in 1981. Since 1990 onwards, he has been teaching classes in Eastern European history and the history of the Nazi Regime at the George Mason University in Virginia.

Publications (selection)

- Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Vasall Himmlers: Eine SS-Karriere (1991).
- “Rehearsal for ‘Reinhard’? Odilo Globocnik and the Lublin Selbstschutz“, in: Central European History (1993).
- “Central Intent or Regional Inspiration? Recent German Approaches to the Holocaust“, in: Central European History (2000).
- “Indigenous Collaboration in the Government General: The Case of the Sonderdienst“, in: Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe, ed. by Pieter Judson and Marsha Rozenblit (2004).
- Die Trawniki-Männer und die ‘Aktion Reinhard’”, in: “Aktion Reinhardt”: Der Völkermord an den Juden im Generalgouvernement, 1941-1944, ed. by Bogdan Musial (2004).