Anton Weiss-Wendt

Research Professor

Email anton.weiss-wendt@hlsenteret.no

Phone +47 22 84 21 23

Mobile phone +47 41 44 81 07

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Anton Weiss-Wendt holds a PhD in Modern Jewish History from Brandeis University in the USA and joined The Norwegian Holocaust Center in 2006. He primarily works on comparative genocide studies focusing on Nazi and Soviet mass crimes. In addition to Jews, he researches victim groups such as the Roma and Slavs.

Regarding genocide projects, Anton is a specialist in the political history of the UN Genocide Convention. He has also studied the rhetorical use of the term “genocide” during the Cold War. Since 2017, Anton has additionally researched history politics in Putin’s Russia, including perspectives on the Holocaust and mass crimes committed against its own population during Stalin's era.

Comparative Genocide Studies
The History of the UN Genocide Convention
The History of the Holocaust
Modern Jewish History
Soviet and Eastern European History
Legal Proceedings in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War

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Publications

A Peope Destroyed: New Research on the Roma Genocide (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2025)
The Future of the Soviet Past: The Politics of History in Putin's Russia (together with Nanci Adler) (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021)
Putin’s Russia and the Falsification of History: Reasserting Control over the Past (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Documents on the Genocide Conventions from the American, British, and Russian Archives (London: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2018)
- Vol. 1 The Politics of International Humanitarian Law, 1933–1948
- Vol. 2 The Ideology of a Humanitarian Treaty, 1949–1988
A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War (Rutgers, NJ: University of Rutgers Press, 2017)
The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention (Madison, WI: Universtity of Wisconsin Press, 2017)
On the Margins: Essays on the History of Jews in Estonia (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2017)
Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945 (together With Rory Yeomans) (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reassessment and Commemoration (New York: Berghahn Books, 2013)
Eradicating Differences: The Treatment of Minorities in Nazi-Dominated Europe, 2010
Small-Town Russia: Childhood Memories of the Final Soviet Decade (Gainesville, FL: Florida Academic Press, 2010)
Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009)

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