Robert Parzer studied history and Slavic studies at the Free University Berlin and the University of Potsdam. He has been a research associate at institutions including the Leibnitz Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin, the Hessian Central State Archives Wiesbaden, and the Saxon Memorial Foundation. Since 2021 he has been responsible for Subproject 2 (the development of an online presentation of the key holdings in the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation's archive, collection, and library.
Research focuses:
National Socialist “euthanasia” crimes, history of Poland during World War II
Publications (selection):
(with Dietmar Schulze und Maike Rotzoll) Die besetzte Anstalt: Die Psychiatrie in Kocborowo/Konradstein und ihre Opfer im Zweiten Weltkrieg, Cologne 2020.
“Holocaust und ‘Euthanasie’-Verbrechen: eine alte Debatte, empirisch geerdet: Das Beispiel der frühen ‘Euthanasie-Morde’ in Polen und Brandenburg”, in: Jörg Osterloh and Jan-Erik Schulte (eds.), "Euthanasie" und Holocaust Kontinuitäten, Kausalitäten, Parallelitäten (Schriftenreihe der Gedenkstätte Hadamar, vol. 1), Paderborn 2021.
