Martin C. Dean

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Martin Christopher Dean [1] (born March 14, 1962, in London, Ph.D. in history from Queens' College, Cambridge) [2] is a research scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). [3] [4] He formerly worked as an historian at the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit, Scotland Yard. [5] [6]

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  1. Dean, Martin Christopher (2022). "Forced Labor Camps for Jews in Reichskommissariat Ukraine: The Exploitation of Jewish Labor within the Holocaust in the East". Eastern European Holocaust Studies. 1: 175–196. doi: 10.1515/eehs-2022-0002 . ISSN   2749-9030.
  2. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)".
  3. "Confiscation of Jewish Property in Europe, 1933–1945: New Sources and Perspectives — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". Ushmm.org. 22 March 2001. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  4. Martin C. Dean (2010). Hayes, Peter; Roth, John K (eds.). Ghettos. Oxford Handbooks. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211869.001.0001. ISBN   9780199211869.
  5. "Biographie de Martin C. Dean". Calmann-levy.fr. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  6. Articles by Dean, M. C. (4 December 2015). "The German Gendarmerie, the Ukrainian Schutzmannschaft and the 'Second Wave' of Jewish Killings in Occupied Ukraine: German Policing at the Local Level in the Zhitomir Region, 1941-1944". German History. 14 (2). Gh.oxfordjournals.org: 168–192. doi:10.1093/gh/14.2.168.
  7. "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 26 January 2020.