Jochen Böhler

Jochen Böhler listen (born 1969 in Rheinfelden) is a German historian, specializing in the military history of World War II, the Third Reich, the German occupation of Poland 1939–45, and the research on the perpetrators of the Holocaust. He is the recipient of several international awards.

Böhler obtained a Magister's degree at University of Cologne in 1999, where he specialized in modern and medieval history, as well as ethnology and political economy. His Magisterial thesis, Wehrmacht war crimes in Poland, won a departmental award. His PhD was finished at the same university in 2004.

He is a member of the German Committee for the History of the Second World War and of the Working Group on Military History. From 2000 he has worked in the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Between 2003 and 2004 he was a Fellow in Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Since January 2008, Böhler served as the Baron Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim Fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem.