Maximilian Strnad is a historian at the Munich City Archive, and recently received his Ph.D. in Contemporary History from the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. Strnad has been involved in many university- and community-based research undertakings, coordinating, among others, the “Deportation of Munich Jews” project (with Peter Longerich) at the NS-Documentation Center and working as a researcher in the “Jews in Germany Since 1945” project at LMU’s Department of Jewish History and Culture (with Michael Brenner). He has been awarded a Sosland Family Fellowship at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and a scholarship from the Leo Baeck Fellowship Program and the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. In addition to a series of articles and book chapters, he is the author of Zwischenstation “Judensiedlung.” Verfolgung und Deportation der jüdischen Münchner 1941-1945 (Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2011) and Flachs für das Reich. Das jüdische Zwangsarbeitslager “Flachsröste” bei München (Munich: Volk Verlag, 2013). He also co-edited (with Michael Brenner) Der Holocaust in der deutschsprachigen Geschichtswissenschaft (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2012).