Faculty Profile
- Wittmann, Rebecca Ph.D. Toronto
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- rebecca.wittmann@utoronto.ca
- (905) 828-3735
(416) 946-8968 - Office: UTM 150 & MU 220N
Field: Modern Europe, Germany, the Holocaust; war crimes and postwar justice, terrorism.
Professor Wittmann’s research focuses on the Holocaust, postwar German trials of Nazi perpetrators and terrorists, and German legal history. She has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). She has published articles in Central European History, German History, and Lessons and Legacies. Her book, Beyond Justice: The ‘Auschwitz’ Trial (Harvard University Press, 2005) won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. Her current project, “Nazism and Terrorism: The Madjanek and Stammheim Trials in 1975 West Germany ” investigates the cultural and political mood in 1970s West Germany through a comparison of Nazi and Left-Wing terrorist trials.