Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov is a professor of history at Brown University and one of the world's leading scholars of the Holocaust, genocide, and modern European history. He was born in Israel and has written extensively on the German military, the Holocaust, and the nature of modern violence. Hitler's Army is a groundbreaking study of the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War, examining how ordinary German soldiers became instruments of Nazi ideology and participated in crimes against humanity. Bartov's research challenged earlier views of the Wehrmacht as a "clean" professional army separate from Nazi atrocities. The audiobook and book versions offer listeners and readers an essential, unflinching work of historical scholarship. Bartov's work is vital for anyone seeking to understand the Holocaust, the Second World War, and the mechanisms by which ordinary people become complicit in extraordinary evil.