Geoffrey P. Megargee

Geoffrey P. Megargee PhD
Born	1959 (age 57–58)
Residence	United States
Occupation	Historian, author, editor
Academic background
Alma mater	Ohio State University
Academic work
Era	20th century
Institutions	United States Holocaust Memorial Museum U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century
Main interests	Modern European history; military history; history of the Holocaust
Notable works	United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945

Geoffrey P. Megargee (born 1959) is an American historian and author who specialises in the World War II military history and the history of the Holocaust. After working for the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, he joined the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C.

Megargee is the author and editor of several books on the history of Nazi Germany. His work on the German High Command (the OKW) won the 2001 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History. He served as the project director for the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 by the USHMM.

Megargee received his PhD in military history from Ohio State University. As of 2016, he is an applied research scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, D.C. He is also the project director and general editor for the seven-volume USHMM's Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Prior to this position Megargee served as research associate at the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century and was a contributor to World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia.

Megargee authored several books on the German military operations during World War II, including a 2006 work on Operation Barbarossa, the Germany invasion of the Soviet Union. Titled War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941, the book focuses on the intermingling of military and genocidal aims of Nazi Germany during the invasion. Reviewing the book, historian Stephen G. Fritz of East Tennessee State University notes that Megargee's intention was to remediate a "curious disconnect in the historical literature on the Nazi-Soviet war between the campaign's military and criminal aspects". Fritz commends the author on this intention and that he has written "an excellent synthesis of the first six months of the Nazi- Soviet war that manages to be both concise and yet surprisingly substantive". According to Fritz, the book also focuses on the "recurring characteristic of the German war effort: considerable operational aptitude combined with strategic confusion".

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