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Nicholas Stargardt (born in 1962) is an Australian historian and author.

Stargardt is the son of a German-Jewish father and Australian mother. He was born in Melbourne, Australia and lived in Australia, Japan, England and Germany. He studied at King's College, Cambridge, and is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, United Kingdom where he teaches modern European history. He has written widely on the history of modern Germany, political and social thought and the Holocaust. He has two sons and is married to the historian Lyndal Roper.

He is the author of 'The German Idea of Militarism: Radical and SocialistCritics' (1994), an intellectual and political history of anti-militaristmovements in Germany before the First World War, and of 'Witnesses ofWar: Children’s Lives under the Nazis' (2005), which offered the first socialhistory of Nazi Germany in the Second World War through the eyes ofchildren. He is currently writing a social history of Germany in the Second World War.

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