Dr. Dr. Valentin Schneider

Main research areas

Academic degrees

2016 Doctorate: Dr. rer. pol., Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)

2013 Doctorate: Dr. phil., History and Civilizations: History of the Modern World, History of the Contemporary World, Université de Caen (France)

Professional career since graduation

since 2019: Research Associate (PI), National Hellenic Research Foundation Athens, Institute for Historical Research

2017-2018: Freelance historian

2014-2016: Post-doctoral Researcher, National and Kapodistrias University of Athens (Greece), Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration

2009-2013: Associate Researcher, Université de Caen (France), Center de Recherche d'Histoire Quantitative (CRHQ), Faculté d'Histoire

2006-2009: Research assistant (contrat doctoral), Université de Caen (France), Center de Recherche d'Histoire Quantitative (CRHQ), Faculté d'Histoire

Research projects

The Greek Jews under the German Occupation, in: Isabella Insolvibile et al. (eds.): Proc. Int. Conf. "Italy and the Jews in the Occupied Territories during World War II", Rome 2024 (forthcoming).

(with Nicolas Garmond) En quête d'archives sur les camps de prisonniers de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à Reims, in: Nicolas Garmond (ed.): Les prisonniers oubliés de Reims-Bétheny (1944-1946), Enquête archéologique, Drémil-Lafage 2023, pp. 13-32.

(with Gilles Desplanque and Nicolas Garmond) Deux chaînons du vaste réseau de camps américains pour prisonniers de guerre allemands de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Revue archéologique de l'Est (67/2018), pp. 425-471.

Burying friend and foe: The employment of German prisoners of war in the construction of military cemeteries in Normandy after 6 June 1944, Int. Journal of Military History (38/2018), pp. 196-222.

A total reversal of the balance of power? German prisoners of war in Normandy, 1944-1948, Nottingham 2016 (dissertation), 275 pp.

Regards croisés sur la présence allemande en Normandie : civils et soldats témoignent de leurs rapports avec l'autre, in: Viviana Agostini-Ouafi et al. (eds.): Récits de guerre France-Italie, Débarquement en Normandie et Ligne gothique en Toscane, Paris 2015, pp. 63-88.

Une garnison en Normandie, La batterie allemande d'Azeville (1942-1944), Creully 2014, 80 pp.

La présence allemande en Normandie (1940-1948), Approche croisée d'une cohabitation franco-allemande forcée, Caen 2013 (dissertation), 1200 pp.

American, British and French POW camps in Normandy (1944-1948). Which role for archaeology in the memorial process?, in: Harold Mytum et al. (eds.), Prisoners of War, Archaeology, Memory, and Heritage of 19th- and 20th-Century Mass Internment, New York 2012, pp. 117-128.

Un million de prisonniers de guerre allemands en France 1944-1948, Paris 2011, 191 pp.