Daniel Siemens

• Professor of European History School of History, Classics and Archaeology
• Email: daniel.siemens@newcastle.ac.uk

Daniel Siemens is Professor of European history at Newcastle University’s School of History, Classics and Archaeology. A specialist of the history of continental Europe in the twentieth century, he has a particular expertise in the history of paramilitarism and political violence during the interwar years.

His latest book, Stormtroopers: A new history of Hitler’s Brownshirts, published in 2017 with Yale University Press, is the first comprehensive history of the Nazi stormtroopers in the English language. In his work, Daniel explores the short-, mid- and long-term effects of war, ranging from the propaganda and revolutions to political exile. He has also a keen interest in all processes of transitional justice after military confrontations, having published on the International Military Tribunals in Nuremberg and Tokyo in comparative perspective. He is now working on the history of the United Restitution Organisation (URO), a Jewish legal aid organization founded in London in 1948. This group not only represented more than quarter million victims of Nazi terror in German and Austrian courts in the second half of the twentieth century, but also played a pioneering role in exploring the scale and legal responsibilities of the Holocaust. Daniel is also a member of Newcastle University’s Forum for Human Rights and Social Justice and of the Central European research network Geschichte–Gesellschaft–Gewalt (History, Society and Violence).