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Dr. Bertrand Perz

Born 1958, Linz, Austria

Studied history and for some semesters geology, philosophy and art history at Vienna University. In lieu of military service, served at the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance. Doctoral dissertation supervised by Karl Stuhlpfarrer (with Erika Weinzierl as second examiner) at Department of Contemporary History, Vienna University, subject: "Melk Concentration Camp: Expansion of the Armament Industry and Forced Labour by Concentration Camp Prisoners at the Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG Company". Graduated as Dr. phil., 1990.

Since 1981Contributed to numerous research projects at the Contemporary History Department, University of Vienna, on subjects such as Nazi concentration camps and ghettos, forced labour, the Holocaust, the culture of remembrance and commemorative shrines at concentration camps

1982-1987 Member of the Commission for Research into Resistance and Persecution in Lower Austria in preparation of the publication of the same name

1991-1992 Expert for the Duisburg Regional Court (Germany) in the criminal trial of former member SS guards of Wiener Neudorf concentration camp since the academic

year 1991-92 Instructor, Contemporary History Department, Vienna University, conducting classes inter alia on Nazism and its impact on cultural history and the history of technology

1992 With Gottfried Fliedl planned and did the historical work for the permanent exhibit on the history of Melk concentration camp opened in Melk on 8 May 1992

1993-1995 Member and coordinator of the international commission of experts appointed by the Federal Minister of Education and Art for the Mauthausen commemorative shrine

1995-1996 Instructor, Contemporary History Department, Innsbruck University

since 1997Staff member of the Independent Commission of Experts on Switzerland in World War II (Bergier Commission)

Secretary of Forschungsgemeinschaft zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus

(organization of researchers working on the history of Nazism)

since 1 July 1998 Holder of a fellowship from the Hamburg Foundation for the Encouragement of Science and Culture to enable him to work on his habilitation thesis the subject of which will be the department run by Odilo Globocnik as SS and police chief in Lublin (organization and personnel).

Selected publications

Self-contained

  • With Florian Freund, Das KZ in der Serbenhalle. Zur Kriegsindustrie in Wiener Neustadt [on a concentration camp connected with war industries in the town of Wiener Neustadt], Vienna 1988;
  • Projekt Quarz. Steyr-Daimler-Puch und das Konzentrationslager Melk [The Quartz Project: Steyr-Daimler-Puch and Melk Concentration Camp], Vienna 1991;
  • Konzentrationslager Melk. Begleitbroschüre zur ständigen Ausstellung in der Gedenkstätte des ehemaligen Konzentrationslagers Melk [Visitor's handbook for the commemorative shrine in Melk] (with a contribution by Gottfried Fliedl), Vienna 1992;
  • Il campo di concentramento di Melk. "Commando" di Mauthausen - Impianto sotteraneo "Quarz", Burolo (TO) 1993 (enlarged Italian version of the Melk brochure).

Essays

  • With Hans Safrian, "Wege und Irrwege der Faschismusforschung" [Routes and Wrong Turnings of Research on Fascism], in: Zeitgeschichte, 11/12 (1980), pp. 437 ff;
  • Joint editor with Hans Safrian and Karl Stuhlpfarrer of Faschismus in Österreich und International [Austrian and International Fascism]. Yearbook 1980-81 of the Austrian Society for Contemporary History, Vienna 1982;
  • With Werner Eichbauer and Florian Freund, Die Außenlager des KZ Mauthausen in Niederösterreich [The Sub-camps of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Lower Austria] in: Widerstand und Verfolgung in Niederösterreich [Resistance and Persecution in Lower Austria], Vol. 3, pp. 602-631, Vienna 1987;
  • With Florian Freund, "Industrialisierung durch Zwangsarbeit" [Industrialization through Forced Labour] in: Emmerich Talos, Ernst Hanisch and Wolfgang Neugebauer (ed.), NS-Herrschaft in Österreich 1938-1945 [Nazi Rule in Austria 1938-1945], pp. 95-114, Vienna 1988;
  • "Die Errichtung eines Konzentrationslagers in Wiener Neudorf. Zum Zusammenhang von Rüstungsexpansion und Zwangsarbeit von KZ-Häftlingen" [The establishment of a Concentration Camp in Wiener Neudorf: the Connection between Armament Expansion and Forced Labour by Concentration Camp Prisoners], in: Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes (ed.), Jahrbuch 1988 [Yearbook], pp. 88-116, Vienna 1988;
  • "Der Todesmarsch von Wiener Neudorf nach Mauthausen. Eine Dokumentation" [The Death March from Wiener Neudorf to Mauthausen: Documents], in: Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes (ed.), Jahrbuch 1988 [Yearbook], pp. 117-137, Vienna 1988;
  • "Steyr-Münichholz, ein Konzentrationslager der Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG, Zur Genese der Zwangsarbeit in der Rüstungsindustrie" [Steyr-Münichholz, a Concentration Camp of Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG: Notes on the Genesis of Forced Labour in the Armament Industry], in: Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (ed.), Jahrbuch 1989, pp. 57-61, Vienna 1989;
  • With Florian Freund and Karl Stuhlpfarrer, "Das Getto in Litzmannstadt (Lodz)" [The Ghetto in Litzmannstadt, i.e. Lodz] in: "Unser einziger Weg ist Arbeit." Das Getto in Lodz 1940-1944 ["Our Only Way Is Work. The Lodz Ghetto, 1940-1944], ed. Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 17-31, Vienna 1990;
  • With Florian Freund and Karl Stuhlpfarrer, "Bildergeschichten - Geschichtsbilder" [Pictorial Histories, Historical Pictures], in: "Unser einziger Weg ist Arbeit". Das Getto in Lodz 1940-1944, ed. Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 50-59, Vienna 1990;
  • With Florian Freund and Karl Stuhlpfarrer, selection of colour slides from the archives of the German ghetto administration in Lodz (including quotes), in: "Unser einziger Weg ist Arbeit". Das Getto in Lodz 1940-1944, ed. Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 50-59, Vienna 1990;
  • With Florian Freund, "Fremdarbeiter und KZ-Häftlinge in der 'Ostmark'" (Foreign Workers and Concentration Camp Prisoners in Nazi-Occupied Austria), in: Ulrich Herbert (ed.), Europa und der "Reichseinsatz". Ausländische Zivilarbeiter, Kriegsgefangene und KZ-Häftlinge in Deutschland 1938-1945 [Europe and "Assignment for the Reich": Foreign Civilian Workers, Prisoners of War and Concentration Camp Prisoners in Germany, 1938-1945], pp. 317-350, Essen 1991;
  • With Florian Freund and Karl Stuhlpfarrer, "Farbdias aus dem Ghetto Lodz" [Colour Slides from Lodz Ghetto], in: Zeitgeschichte 18 (1990/91) No. 9/10, pp. 271-303;
  • With Gottfried Fliedl, Florian Freund and Eduard Fuchs, "Den Toten zur Ehr - den Lebenden zur Lehr?" [To Honour the Dead and to Teach the Living a Lesson?] in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 2 (1991), No. 4;
  • With Florian Freund and Karl Stuhlpfarrer, "Der Bau des Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz-Birkenau. Die Aktenmappe der Zentralbauleitung Auschwitz 'Vorhaben Kriegsgefangenenlager Auschwitz (Durchführung der Sonderbehandlung)' im Militärhistorischen Archiv Prag" [The Construction of Auschwitz-Birkenau Annihilation Camp: The Files of the Auschwitz Central Construction Management on "Project POW: Camp Auschwitz (Application of Special Treatment)"], in: Zeitgeschichte 20 (1993), No. 5/6, pp. 187-214);
  • "Rüstungsindustrie in Wiener Neustadt 1938-1945" [Armament Industries in Wiener Neustadt, 1938-1945], in: Sylvia Hahn and Karl Flanner (ed.), "Die Wienerische Neustadt", Handwerk, Handel und Militär in der Steinfeldstadt [Crafts, Trade and the Military in Wiener Neustadt], pp. 47-90, Wien, Cologne and Weimar 1994;
  • "Perspektiven der österreichischen Forschung zu Zwangsarbeit und Arbeitsmigration im Nationalsozialismus" [Perspectives of Austrian Research on Forced Labour and Worker Migration under Nazism], in: Österreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag Innsbruck 1993 [Proceedings of the 1993 Congress of Austrian Contemporary Historians], ed. Ingrid Böhler and Rolf Steininger, p. 209-215, Innsbruck and Vienna 1995;
  • "Das Konzentrationslager Mauthausen in der historischen Forschung" [Mauthausen Concentration Camp as Reflected in Historical Research], in: Nouvelles recherches sur l'univers concentrationnaire et d'extermination nazi. Revue d'Allemagne et des pays de langue allemande, vol. 27, No. 2 - April/June 1995, pp. 265-274;
  • "'Auf Wunsch des Führers ...'. Der Bau von Luftschutzstollen in Linz durch Häftlinge des Konzentrationslagers Linz II" ["It is the Führer's Wish" The Building of Air-Raid Dugouts by Prisoners rom Concentration Camp Linz II], in: Zeitgeschichte, 22nd Year, September/October 1995, No. 9/10, pp. 342-346;
  • "Politisches Management im Wirtschaftskonzern. Georg Meindl und die Rolle des Staatskonzerns Steyr-Daimler-Puch bei der Verwirklichung der NS-Wirtschaftsziele in Österreich" [Political Management in a Business Concern: Georg Meindl and the Role of the State-Owned Steyr-Daimler-Puch Company in the Implementation of Nazi Economic Objectives in Austria], in: Hermann Kaienburg (ed.), Konzentrationslager und deutsche Wirtschaft 1939-1945 [Concentration Camps and the German Economy, 1939-1945], pp. 95-112, Opladen 1996;
  • "Das Ghetto in Lodz und die Errichtung des Vernichtungslagers Chelmno-Kulmhof" [The Ghetto in Lodz and the Construction of Chelmno-Kulmhof Annihilation Camp], in: Österreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag Linz 1995, Österreich - 50 Jahre Zweite Republik [Proceedings of the 1995 Congress of Austrian Contemporary Historians in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Second Republic], Rudolf G. Ardelt und Christian Gerbel (ed.), pp. 220-224, Innsbruck 1996;
  • As member of the historical staff, co-authored the report of the Swiss Commission on gold transactions in World War II (Bericht der Unabhängigen Expertenkommission: Schweiz - Zweiter Weltkrieg: Goldtransaktionen im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Kommentierte statistische Übersicht. Ein Beitrag zur Goldkonferenz in London, 2.-4. Dezember 1997), Berne 1997;
  • "Der Arbeitseinsatz im KZ Mauthausen" [Work Assignments in Mauthausen Concentration Camp], in: Die nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager - Entwicklung und Struktur [The Nazi Concentration Camps - Development and Structure], Ulrich Herbert, Karin Orth and Christoph Dieckmann (ed.), pp. 533-557, Göttingen 1998;
  • (In the press): "'Selbst die Sonne schien damals ganz anders ...'. Die Entstehung der KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen 1945-1970" ["Even the Sun Shone Quite Differently Then..." The Genesis of the Camp Shrine in Mauthausen], in: Steinernes Bewußtsein. Die öffentliche Repräsentation staatlicher und nationaler Identität Österreichs in seinen Denkmälern [Remembrance in Stone: The Public Representation of Austria's Statehood and National Identity in Her Monuments], Vol. 2, Heidemarie Uhl (ed.), Vienna, Cologne and Weimar (to be published spring 1999).
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