Christian Gerlach is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is a global historian whose research covers Nazi Germany and World War II, comparative mass violence, and the history of food, hunger and development policies. He is author of The Extermination of the European Jews (2016), Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World (2010), The Last Chapter: Realpolitik, Ideology and the Murder of Hungarian Jews (with Götz Aly, 2002), Calculated Murder: The German Economic and Extermination Policy in Belarus (1999) and War, Food, Genocide: Studies on the German Extermination Policy in World War II (1998). His publications have appeared in eleven languages.Clemens Six is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research and teaching interests include politics and religion in 20th century Southand Southeast Asia, transnational secularism studies, global intellectual history since 1945, and the history of international development cooperation. He is the author of Secularism, Decolonisation and the Cold War in South and South East Asia (2018) and Spectacular Politics: Performative nation-building and religion in modern India (2010).
