Dr. Paula Oppermann researches the history of fascism, antisemitism, and the Holocaust and its commemoration in Latvia and Germany. She is a researcher at the Historical Commission Berlin working on the project “The Berlin Gestapo Reports 1933-1936. A Source Edition.” She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and as a curator at the Topography of Terror Documentation Centre. She studied history and Baltic languages at the University of Greifswald and Holocaust and genocide studies at Uppsala University. In 2022, she received her PhD at the University of Glasgow with a dissertation about Latvia’s fascist and antisemitic party Pērkonkrusts (Thunder Cross), which was awarded the Fritz Theodor Epstein Prize and the George L. Mosse First Book Prize and will be published in 2025. She has received fellowships at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute and the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.
Paula Oppermann
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Dr. Paula Oppermann researches the history of fascism, antisemitism, and the Holocaust and its commemoration in Latvia and Germany. She is a researcher at the Historical Commission Berlin working on the project “The Berlin Gestapo Reports 1933-1936. A Source Edition.” She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and…