Michael Zimmermann is Historian at the Ruhrland Museum in Essen and lecturer at the University of Bochum. He is author of Rassenutopie und Genozid: Die nationalsozialistische “Lösung der Zigeunerfrage” (1996), editor and coauthor of Die Geschichte der Juden im Rheinland und in Westfalen (1998), and coeditor of Das Jüdische Museum in Prag (1991). His analysis of Nazi Gypsy policy in particular is widely recognized as one of the most influential studies on the subject, receiving an award from the University of Jena in 1997.
