Karel Margry (born 1957) is a Dutch historian and researcher specialising in the history of the Second World War, particularly Nazi propaganda films and the Holocaust. He served as editor of the British history magazine After the Battle from 1986 to 2022. He has also written extensively on military history and the history of Nazi-occupied Europe.
Education and career[edit | edit source]
Margry studied modern history at Utrecht University. From 1986 to 2022, he was the editor of After the Battle, a British quarterly magazine covering the Second World War. Margry has written more than 100 articles for After the Battle, covering military campaigns, the Third Reich, resistance movements, intelligence, the Holocaust and other aspects of the Second World War.
Research[edit | edit source]
Margry's research includes the Nazi propaganda films produced in the Theresienstadt ghetto.[1] His article "The First Theresienstadt Film (1942)", published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television in 1999, examined the first film project undertaken in the ghetto.[2]
In 2016, he published "A False Start: The Filming at Theresienstadt of January 20, 1944" in the academic journal Apparatus. The article examined an aborted attempt to film in the ghetto before the production of the later Nazi propaganda film.[3] His other research includes the history of newsreels in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and the activities of the newsreel company Aktualita.[4]
Publications[edit | edit source]
Margry's publications include:
- The Liberation of Eindhoven (1982)
- September 1944: Operation Market-Garden (1984)
- Operation Market-Garden Then and Now (2002, two volumes)
- Before Endeavours Fade, updated editions of Rose Coombs's battlefield guide (1994, 2005 and 2016)
- "The First Theresienstadt Film (1942)" (1999)
- "Newsreels in Nazi-Occupied Czechoslovakia" (2004)[5]
Documentary films[edit | edit source]
Margry has been involved in the production of three documentaries:
- The Battle of Den Bosch (1984)
- Ghetto Theresienstadt – Deception and Reality (1997)
- Westerbork Camp 1939–1945 (1999)[5]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "The Nazi propaganda film made by a Jewish director: Was he really behind it?". i24NEWS. 5 May 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ Margry, Karel (1999). "The First Theresienstadt Film (1942)". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 19 (3): 309–337. doi:10.1080/014396899100190.
- ↑ Margry, Karel (2016). "A False Start: The Filming at Theresienstadt of January 20, 1944". Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe (2–3). doi:10.17892/app.2016.0002-3.54.
- ↑ Margry, Karel (2004). "Newsreels in Nazi-Occupied Czechoslovakia: Karel Pečený and His Newsreel Company Aktualita". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 24 (1): 69–117.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Karel Margry". Academia.edu. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
External links[edit | edit source]
- Karel Margry at Academia.edu
- "A False Start" in Apparatus