Karl schleunes biography

American historian (1937–2021)

Karl Albert Schleunes (April 21, 1937 – May 15, 2021)^[1] was an American historian of the Holocaust and the German Empire.

He was a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG).^[2] Schleunes obtained his Bachelor in 1959 at Lakeland College (Wisconsin), and his Master's at the University of Minnesota in 1961, where he also received his Ph.D.

in 1966. From 1965 to 1971 he taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since then he was at the UNCG. In 1999 he was a guest lecturer at the Kaplan Centre of the University of Cape Town.^[3]

Karl Schleunes was born in Kiel, Wisconsin, the son of Henry Schleunes (1892–1968) and Adelia Eickoff (1896–1984) of Schleswig.^[4][5] In August 1964, he married Brenda Jean Pursel, founder and artistic director of the Touring Theatre of North Carolina.^[6]

The 1970 publication of Karl Schleunes's The Twisted Ro