Christoph Dieckmann (historian)

Christoph Dieckmann (born 1960[1]) is a German historian and author.

[1] He received his doctorate in 2003 at University of Freiburg under the supervision of Ulrich Herbert, his dissertation focused on the German WWII policy in Lithuania, and his subsequent research and work has focused on the same topic.

[2] Dieckmann taught modern history at Keele University from 2005 to 2014.

He subsequently worked on the Yiddish Historiography on the Russian Civil War at the Fritz Bauer Institut.

[3] In 2012, he was awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research for his two volume work Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941-1944 ("German Occupation Policy in Lithuania 1941-1944.").