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Website URL: https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/caroline-sharples(97fcd98e-fc69-4f61-abf3-1d4f5422724b).html

Keywords: Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Perpetrator Burial and Commemoration, Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung, Cultural Memory.

About Me: Dr Caroline Sharples is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Roehampton, UK. She specialises in twentieth century Germany history, specifically the history of Nazi Germany and representations of the Holocaust. She is the author of West Germans and the Nazi Legacy (Routledge, 2012), Postwar Germany and the Holocaust (Bloomsbury, 2016) and co-editor, with Olaf Jensen, of Britain and the Holocaust; Remembering and Representing War and Genocide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). She is currently working on a major study of ‘dead Nazis’: perpetrator burials and commemorative practice before, during and after the Third Reich. She is also writing a monograph on the death of Adolf Hitler.

Recent Publications: ‘The Death of Nazism? Investigating Perpetrator Remains and Survival Rumours in Post-war Germany’, Shane McCorristine ed., When is Death?: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Death and its Timings (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) pp. 87-102.

‘Burying the Past? The Post-Execution History of Nazi War Criminals’, Richard Ward (ed.), A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) pp. 249-271.

Postwar Germany and the Holocaust (London: Bloomsbury, 2016).

Forthcoming publication:

‘What Do You Do with a Dead Nazi? Allied Policy on the Execution and Disposal of War Criminals, 1945-55’, Camilo Erlichmann & Christopher Knowles (eds), Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany: Politics, Everyday Life and Social Interactions, 1945-55 (London: Bloomsbury, 2018) – https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/transforming-occupation-in-the-western-zones-of-germany-9781350049246/