Dr. Jörg Osterloh

Research associate

Jörg Osterloh has been a Research Associate at the Fritz Bauer Institute and lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main since 2008. He is a member of the editorial board of Einsicht. Bulletin des Fritz Bauer Instituts.

Jörg Osterloh studied history and political science at the University Hannover. He was then a Research Associate at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism at the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden) and a Volkswagen Foundation Fellowship holder at the Ruhr University Bochum. He was also a member of a research group studying the history of Dresdner Bank 1931–1957 at the TU Dresden. In 2004, he earned his doctorate from the TU Dresden with a study on the National Socialist persecution of Jews in the Reichsgau Sudetenland. He then was a Research Associate in a project on Friedrich Flick and the Flick Group in the 20th century, initially at the Ruhr University Bochum, and from 2005 at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

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Research Interests

• History of Nazi anti-Jewish policy and the Holocaust
• History of Nazi cultural policy
• History of anti-Semitism
• History of prisoners of war in World War II

Current Research Projects

The Germans and the Soviet Prisoners of War 1941–1945

Selected publications

• »Ausschaltung der Juden und des jüdischen Geistes«. Nationalsozialistische Kulturpolitik 1920–1945, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2020.
• (Ed., together with Kim Wünschmann), »… der schrankenlosesten Willkür ausgeliefert«. Häftlinge der frühen Konzentrationslager 1933–1936/37, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2017.
• Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung im Reichsgau Sudetenland 1938–1945, München 2006.

List of publications

• Publications (pdf-file)