University assistant/prae doc at the Department of Contemporary History since 1 October 2020

Member of the Vienna Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies
(to the profile of Kathrin Janzen)

Person in charge of the project A Photo Album for Viktor Brack – Perpetrators of Nazi "Euthanasia" Crimes and Everyday Office Life in the Chancellery of the Führer

Curriculum Vitae and list of publications

PhD project: "Social Entanglements within a Collective of Perpetrators – Family and Private Relationships between Accomplices of the National Socialist "Euthanasia" Killings" (working title)

Kathrin Janzen is a historian and pre-doc research associate at the University of Vienna's Department of Contemporary History. In her dissertation, she examines the social structures and networks within the collective of perpetrators of the so-called "T4" organisation, which was responsible for carrying out the systematic mass murder of people with illnesses and disabilities. The focus is on the overlap between professional, institutional and social connections between the perpetrators. In her dissertation, Kathrin Janzen analyses these connections and examines how they affected the organisation, execution and participation in mass murder and how these continuities and criminal prosecution after 1945 were influenced.

Key Research Topics

• Nazism
• Perpetrator and network research
• "T4" programme and the murder of patients
• Genocide and Holocaust research
• German and European history in the 20th century
• Remembrance culture
• Propaganda research
• History of the concentration camps