Alfons Kenkmann is Director, Villa ten Hompel Memorial Institute, Münster, and Lecturer, University of Dortmund, Germany. He is the author of numerous publications, including Wilde Jugend (1996), a study of alternative youth culture in twentieth-century Germany. He is the editor of Villa ten Hompel: Sitz der Ordnungspolizei im Dritten Reich (1996) and, together with Bernd A. Rusineck, of the recent collection of essays Verfolgung und Verwaltung (1999), which is linked to the exhibition that he organized in Münster on financial confiscation in Westphalia during the Third Reich.
