Centre for Interdisciplinary Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Centre for Interdisciplinary Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Professor Richard Overy has written on the Holocaust as part of his work on the Third Reich and the Second World War. He taught a module on ‘Interpretations of the Holocaust’ at Exeter for seven years before retiring from teaching. His article on perpetrators was published in 2015 in a special issue devoted to the fiftieth anniversary of the Milgram experiment on obedience. He has contributed a chapter to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Holocaust on ‘Lebensraum’. Richard has lectured widely in schools and for the Holocaust Educational Trust on aspects of the Holocaust.