Matthias Bjørnlund (born 1967 in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

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) is a Danish historian. In 2003–05 he was the workshop leader of Department for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in

in connection with the commemoration of the international Auschwitz Day. He received his MA in history from the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala Unive ...

. His Thesis was "A People is Being Murdered: The Armenian Genocide in Danish Sources". He is also working as a researcher and translator of Danish documents on the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through t ...

with a partial funding by a grant from the Danish Ministry of Culture.

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Interview with Mattias Bjørnlund
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