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Hugo Service
Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Biography

Hugo Service is Senior Lecturer in Modern History. His research concerns the social and political history of Poland and Germany in the twentieth century. He studied at the University of Cambridge and spent several years living in Germany and Poland while researching his doctoral thesis. He held research and teaching positions at Cambridge and Oxford before joining York in September 2014. His book Germans to Poles examines the traumatic aftermath of Nazi occupation and the Second World War in western Poland.

 

My article, 'The Imagined Ethno-Racial Border and the Expulsion of Jews from Western Poland, 1939-41' (published in German History, 2020) is available here.

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Dr Hugo Service
Vanbrugh College V/N/205
Department of History
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

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