Dr Alexander Korb
Associate Professor in Modern European History
School/Department: History Politics and International Relations, School of
Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 2784
Email: ak368@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
From 2000 until 2010, I worked at several museums and memorials in Frankfurt/Main, Oranienburg and Berlin, where I conducted research, developed exhibitions and guided visitors.
I joined the University as a Lecturer in 2010 and I served as director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studiesfrom 2014-2018.
For my doctoral research, I was awarded several grants and fellowships, amongst others a research fellowship at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum during the 2006-2007 academic year.
I was an Erasmus Exchange Professor at the Universities of Regensburg, Rostock and Belgrade. I received research grants from the USC Shoah Foundation, the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., the Imre Kértesz Kolleg Jena, and other institutions.
I am most familiar with Holocaust- and WWII related archives in Eastern Europe, the post-Yugoslav space, Italy, Germany, the US, and Israel.
Research
Current projects:
I study of the legal attempts to undo the 1918-revolution in Bavaria, by examining the ""People's Courts"" (Volksgerichte, 1919-1924), and by analysing criminal law and capital punishment.
I am writing a book on collaboration between the Nazis and their European partners during the Holocaust.
Together with co-applicants, I am developing a project on the history of Nazi sexual enslavement during WWII.
I am CI of Narrative Art & Visual Storytelling in Holocaust & Human Rights Education, an interdisciplinary project funded by the a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant that unitesacademics, educators, Holocaust survivors, and artists and produces graphic novels on survial, -> holocaustgraphicnovels.org
I am CI of Ideologies of Natioanl Socialism, a multi-volume edition on the role of ideology, and varying ideologies, within Nazism in Germany and Europe, in the 20th Century, ->https://ns-ideologies.org
Publications
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Monographs
Im Schatten des Weltkriegs: Massengewalt der UstaSa gegen Serben, Juden und Roma in Kroatien 1941-1945 (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2013; 2nd ed. 2014; in Italian: All' ombra della guerra mondiale: Edizione Massari 2017)
Reaktionen der deutschen Bevölkerung auf die Novemberpogrome (2nd ed., Saarbrücken: Akademikerverlag, 2012; 1st ed. 2008)
Edited Vols.
Ethnic Homogenisation in Southeastern Europe. Journal of Genocide Research 18, 2016/4 (with Philipp Ther)
Nationalsozialistische Lager : neue Beiträge zur NS-Verfolgungs- und Vernichtungspolitik und zur Gedenkstättenpädagogik (Münster: Klemm & Oelschläger, 2006)
I am editor of Mass Violence in the Modern World. A Routledge Series.
Articles
From the Balkans to Germany and Back: The Croatian Labour Service, 1941-1945, in Kiran Patel, Sandrine Kott (eds), Nazism across Borders. The Social Policies of the Third Reich and their Global Appeal, OUP 2018, 259-282.
Muslim Volunteers in Nazi Units, in Jochen Böhler and Robert Gerwarth (eds), The Waffen-SS. A European History, OUP 2017
Genocide in Times of Civil War: Popular Attitudes towards Ustasa Mass Violence, Croatia 1941-1945, in Andrea Löw, Frank Bajohr (eds) The Holocaust and European Societies. Social Processes and Social Dynamics, Palgrave 2017
Ustasha Mass Violence Against Gypsies in Croatia, 1941-42, in Anton Weiss-Wendt (ed.) The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reevaluation and Commemoration, ed. (Berghahn, New York, first edition 2013, pb 2015)
Understanding Ustasha Violence, in Journal of Genocide Research, 12 (2010), 1-18.
.Supervision
Modern German History
South Eastern and Eastern European History
Comparative Fascism Studies
Genocide Studies
Intellectual History
Teaching
HS3769: The Holocaust: Genocide in Europe
HS2349: Stormtroops, Iron Guard and Arrow Cross: Fascism and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1938-1945
HS1016: Europe 1861-1991: Emancipation and Subjugation