Dr Nicholas Terry is a Senior Lecturer in Modern European History in the Department of Archaeology and History, He is historian of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. After working as a music journalist and magazine editor, he completed a PhD at King’s College London on German Army occupation towards the Soviet civilian population, during which time he held a fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He taught at KCL, Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Bristol before coming to Exeter in 2010. His teaching has encompassed the history of Nazi war crimes trials, transnational histories of the Holocaust, the Holocaust and German occupation of Eastern Europe, as well as comparative histories of violence.

His research interests include the German occupation of the Soviet Union and Poland, as well as the Holocaust from a number of angles, including Allied wartime knowledge of the Holocaust, and the extermination camps of Auschwitz and Chelmno. He served as a historical consultant to the Metropolitan Police on a war crimes investigation of a ‘Trawniki man’ in 2010/2011. 

He has also been recognised as “the UK’s foremost academic” (The Observer) on the subject of Holocaust denial, co-editing a collection on Holocaust and genocide denial while also founding the blog Holocaust Controversies with academics and non-academics (follow this link for open access resources provided by the site). He is currently working with Stephanie Courouble-Share and Michael Whine to found an international research network on Holocaust and genocide denial. 

Nicholas Terry tweets as @historiannick, where he keeps track of the increasing digitisation of archival sources, and maintains an index of open access sources on the Holocaust at the HC blog.

Email: N.M.Terry@exeter.ac.uk