Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and Professor of German Studies at Brown University.
Bartov was born in Israel and attended Tel Aviv University and St. Antony's College, Oxford. As a historian, Bartov is most noted for his studies of the German Army in World War II. Bartov has challenged the popular view that the German Army was an apolitical force that had little involvement in war crimes or crimes against humanity in World War II. Bartov has argued that the Wehrmacht was a deeply Nazi institution that played a key role in the Holocaust in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union.
Bartov, a 1989 to 1992 Junior Harvard fellow and 2002 Guggenheim fellow, is one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of genocide. Bildner Center Event: Omer Bartov Brown University German Studies The Forward calls Bartov, “One of the foremost scholars of Jewish life in Galicia.”
The Eastern Front, 1941-1945: German Troops and the Barbarization of Warfare
"Historians on the Eastern Front Andreas Hillgruber and Germany's Tragedy" pages 325-345 from Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, Volume 16, 1987
Hitler's Army
Murder in Our Midst
Mirrors of Destruction
Germany's War and the Holocaust, Cornell University Press
The "Jew" in Cinema, Indiana University Press, 2005
Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine, 2007
Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide and Modern Identity, Oxford Univ. Press, 2000