Peukert, Detlev J. K.

Detlev J. K. Peukert is the author of "Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life", a highly accaimed study of daily life in the Third Reich. Former professor of modern history at the University of Essen and director of the Research Institute for the History of the Nazi Period, he died in 1990 at the age of thirty-nine.