Dr Peter Lieb

Academic and Research Career

Peter Lieb is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He completed his M.A. in History at the University of Munich and his doctorate at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. From 2001 to 2005 he was a researcher in the project ‘The Wehrmacht during the National Socialist regime’, run by the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich. In 2001, he was a visiting scholar at the German Historical Institute Paris.  

His doctoral thesis won both the Werner-Hahlweg-Prize for Military History in Germany in May 2006 and the Prix Guillaume Fichet – Octave Simon in Paris in October 2004. He is also a member of the Council of the Army Records Society.  

He was elected an ESRI Research Fellow in November 2006.  

Research Interests  

Peter Lieb is interested in a range of subjects in the field of German and European military history in the twentieth century, in particular German occupation policy and practice in Europe in both the First and Second World Wars, as well as insurgency and counter-insurgency theories.    

Principal Publications

Monographs   

Konventioneller Krieg oder NS-Weltanschauungskrieg? Kriegführung und Partisanen-bekämpfung in Frankreich 1943/44 (Oldenbourg: Munich 2007).  
   
Working Papers  
   
A Precursor of Modern Counter-Insurgency Operations? The German Occupation of the Ukraine in 1918 (European Studies Research Institute: Salford, September 2007), Working Papers in Military & International History No. 4.     
   
Articles  
   
‘”Die Ausführung der Maßnahmen hielt sich anscheinend nicht im Rahmen der gegebenen Weisung.“ Die Suche nach Hergang, Tätern und Motiven des Massakers von Maillé am 25. August 1944’, Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift, 68, Heft 2 (2009).  
 
‘Few Carrots and a lot of Sticks. German Anti-Partisan Warfare in the Second World War’, in Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian, Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare (Osprey: Oxford 2008), pp 67-87.  
 
‘Generalleutnant Harald von Hirschfeld. Eine nationalsozialistische Karriere in der Wehrmacht’, in Christian Hartmann (ed.), Von Feldherren und Gefreiten. Zur biographischen Dimension des Zweiten Weltkriegs (Oldenbourg: Munich 2007), pp. 45-56.  
 
‘Répression et massacres. L’occupant allemand face à la Résistance française, 1943-1944’, in Gaël Eismann and Stefan Martens (eds.), Occupation et repression militaire allemandes 1939-1945. La politique de “maintien de l’ordre” en Europe occupée (Autrement: Paris 2007), pp 169-185.  
 
‘Zwischen den Fronten. Die normannische Zivilbevölkerung während der Invasionskämpfe im Sommer 1944’, in Günther Kronenebitter, Markus Pöhlmann and Dierk Walter (eds.), Besatzung. Funktion und Gestalt militärischer Fremdherrschaft von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (Schöningh: Paderborn 2006), pp. 191-200.  
 
‘Prestupniki po ubezdeniju? Polkovnik Carl von Andrian i unictozenie evreev 707-j pechotnoj diviziej v 1941-1942 gg’, in Belarus‘ i Hermanija. Historyja i sucasnisc‘, vol. 2 (Minsk 2003), pp. 115-121.  
 
‘Täter aus Überzeugung? Oberst Carl von Andrian und die Judenmorde der 707. Infanteriedivision 1941/42’, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 50 (2002), pp. 523-557.  
 
Edited Documents  
 
Electronic edition of the reports from the German Military Commander in France and the synthesis of the reports from the French prefects 1940-1944, edited by the German Historical Institute Paris and the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent, revised by Regina Delacor, Jürgen Finger, Peter Lieb, Vincent Viet and Florent Brayard (http://www.ihtp.cnrs.fr/prefets/cadre_prefets_d.html)      

Contact

Dr Lieb is a Research Fellow in the Centre for European Security and can either be contacted via the Centre, or by e-mail: p.lieb@rmas.mod.uk.