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Information trouvée : Peter Felix Ganz (3 November 1920 in Mainz, Germany - 17 August 2006 in Oxford, England)
was a German born Germanist who emigrated to Britain in 1938, translated conversations
of German nuclear scientists during Operation Epsilon in 1945 and became a professor
at the University of Oxford. In November 1938, he was held for six weeks in the concentration
camp at Buchenwald but was then able to emigrate to England. After internment on the
Isle of Man, he joined the Royal Pioneer Corps, then worked for the Combined Services
Detailed Interrogation Centre (CSDIC) with Fritz Lustig. From 1948 to 1949 Ganz worked
as assistant lecturer at Royal Holloway College, London and from 1949-60 as Lecturer
in German Philology and Medieval Literature at Westfield College, London. From 1963
to 1972 he was a Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford, Professor of Medieval German
Language and Literature and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1972 to 1985. He
was also an Honorary Professor at the University of Göttingen
Wolfenbütteler Cimelien / [Katalog P. Lang], 1989