Geraldien Von Frijtag Drabbe Kunzel

Biography

Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political History. She has been research fellow of the International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem, Israel (2011) and recipient of the Research Grant of the Gerda Henkel Foundation (2012-2013) and the NWO Aspasia Grant (2015). She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Amsterdam in 1999, on German criminal courts in the occupied Netherlands as an instrument of Nazi-policy (1940-1945). Geraldien writes and lectures on contemporary European history, with a particular emphasis on the Holocaust, Nazi-occupied Europe, political violence, conflict and war in twentieth century Europe. She has published in several languages. Her latest book, Hitler’s Brudervolk, published by Routledge in 2015 (and by Bert Bakker/Prometheus in Dutch in 2016), examines the Dutch participation in the Germanization project of the occupied East and the engagement of Dutch ‘pioneers’ in the Holocaust by bullets. She is coordinator of the Utrecht Seminar of Political History, member of the Research Committee of the EU funded EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure), participant of the international network on Supranational Criminology and the initiator and coordinator of the research group ‘Perpetratorship in the Context of Mass Violence’.

Research Interest

Origins and Impacts of Institutions