David Wildermuth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Shippensburg University. After completing his DML at Middlebury College, he was the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. from 2010-2011 and a scholar-in-residence at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich in 2012. He has published in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Central European History. His academic interests center on Holocaust Studies, as well as the historical, demographical and cultural legacy of World War II in Germany and the former Soviet Union