Peter Hayes is Theodore Zev Weiss Chair of Holocaust Studies and Professor of History, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and Member, Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He is the author of the prize-winning Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era (1987; second edition by Cambridge University Press, 2001) and editor of Lessons and Legacies, Volume I: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World (Northwestern University Press, 1991). He is currently completing a book on Degussa AG, a chemical company involved in the production of Zyklon B in the Nazi period.
