Benjamin Ziemann

Benjamin Ziemann was born in Berlin. He is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Sheffield, where he has been working since 2005. His main field of research is the comparative military, social and cultural history of the First World War and of its repercussions in the 1920s. His latest, award-winning book "Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War: Killing, Dying, Surviving" is published with Bloomsbury Academic. Benjamin is currently completing the first fully researched biography of Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), the U-boat commander in the Imperial German Navy who became a Protestant pastor, the figurehead of the "Confessing Church" and from 1938 to 1945 "Hitler's Personal Prisoner".