Nikolaus Daniel Wachsmann (born 1971) is a professor of modern European history in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.
[1] His doctoral thesis, which he completed in 2001, was titled "Reform and Repression: Prisons and Penal Policy in Germany, 1918–1939".
[2] In October 1998, Wachsmann began his academic career as a research fellow at Downing College, Cambridge.
In 2005, he joined the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology of Birkbeck, University of London.
[1] He is the author of the 2004 book, Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany and the 2015 book KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps.