Charles W. Sydnor Jr. is a

Holocaust The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...

and

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historian. He served as the

Virginia Holocaust Museum The Virginia Holocaust Museum (VHM) is a public history museum located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The museum is dedicated to depicting the Holocaust through the personal stories of its victims. History The VHM first opened in 1997, fou ...

’s Executive Director. His doctoral thesis, "Soldiers of Destruction: A History of the SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945" was published in 1977 by Princeton University Press and in a second revised edition in 1990.''Soldiers of Destruction - The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945''
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