Wolfgang Benz

Wolfgang Benz (born 1941 in Ellwangen, Germany) is a German historian and emeritus professor of contemporary history. After working at the Institute for Contemporary History, he taught at Technische Universität Berlin from 1990 to 2011 and directed its Center for Research on Antisemitism. His work addresses German history in the twentieth century, National Socialism, the Holocaust, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice and exclusion. His publications include *A History of the Third Reich*, *German Jews in the Twentieth Century*, and *Alone Against Hitler: The Life and Deeds of Johann Georg Elser*. Benz received the Geschwister Scholl Prize in 1992.