Dr. Alexandra Lohse

Dr. Lohse is an applied research scholar team lead and serves as the general editor of the Museum’s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945. In this capacity, she helped direct the transition of the former print series into a digital, open-access resource while managing the work of in-house editors, scholars, and external contributors to complete the remaining volumes in the Encyclopedia series. 

A historian of modern German history, her research focuses on German society during World War II and on the nature and endurance of popular support for the Nazi regime during the final war years.

Education

• PhD, history, American University, Washington, DC, 2015

• BA, history, American University, Washington, DC, 2004

Languages

• English

• German

Select Publications

• Prevail until the Bitter End: Germans in the Waning Years of World War II, Cornell University Press (2021)

• Operation Torch: The American Amphibious Assault on French Morocco, 1942, coauthored with Jon Middaugh (2018) 

• “The Nazi Forced Labor Program in the District of Schmalkalden and the Town of Lahnstein,” coauthored with Suzanne Brown-Fleming in Freilegungen: Spiegelungen der NS-Verfolgung und ihrer Kosenquenzen, Jahrbuch des International Tracing Service, Vol (2015)

Select Presentations and Interviews

• “The United States Holocaust Memorial Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos: A New Digital Collaboration,” May 2025

• “This is Coming to Haunt Us Today: German Reflections on the Jewish Question, 1943–1945,” 43rd Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, October 2019

• “Experiencing Defeat: Germany, 1944–45,” 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History, May 2019

• “Contemplating the Enemy Without and Within: Germans, Jews, and Others in 1943,” Lessons and Legacies XIII conference, November 2014