Dr Jan Vermeiren is a Lecturer in Modern German History at the University of East Anglia. He studied Modern History, Politics, and German Literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Free University of Berlin, and University College London (UCL). He completed a PhD at the UCL Centre for European Studies and has held various awards, including a Marie Curie Doctoral Fellowship and scholarships from the DAAD and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Vermeiren's research covers a number of areas in German and Central European history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is par...