Chris Webb has been studying the Holocaust for over forty-five years. He has published five books on Hitler's extermination camps. He has also given lectures and presentations at several universities on Aktion Reinhardt and other aspects of the Holocaust. He has founded and co-founded a number of Holocaust websites and has acted as an advisor to the Imperial War Museum and the BBC. He is also a member of the Tiergartenstrasse4 Association and a member of CARR. Artur Hojan (1973-2013) was a Polish historian and author, also a well-regarded expert on Hitler's T4 Euthanasia program and Herbert Lange, the first commandant of Chelmno. A founder of the Tiergartenstrasse4 Association. He lost his life in 2013; his original research has been used in this book. The book is dedicated to his memory.
Chelmno is still relatively unknown, even among esteemed historians of the Holocaust. The importance of Chelmno in the development of the Holocaust is also not well understood and is certainly underresearched. This book is therefore timely. As always, Chris Webb brings his own style to the problem of how to write about the Nazi death camps while respecting the memory of the victims.--Cameron Munro, Tiergarten4 Association e.V. A crucial extension to our body of knowledge on the Holocaust, The Chelmno Death Camp is an authoritative and well-researched account of the construction, historical context, and liquidation of Hitler's first death camp.--William Allchorn, Associate Director of the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Leeds