Edith Raim

Edith Raim (German: [ˈeːdɪt ˈʁaɪm]; 1965 – 1 July 2025) was a German historian who studied the Nazi era.

Life and career

Raim was born in Munich in 1965. She grew up in Landsberg am Lech and first became interested in the topic after watching Holocaust as a child.^[1] Being a student of Anton Posset she started under his guidance the historical reappraisal of the concentration camp complex Kaufering, a sub-camp of Dachau concentration camp.^[2] Her 1991 dissertation at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich was titled Die Dachauer KZ-Außenkommandos Kaufering und Mühldorf: Rüstungsbauten und Zwangsarbeit im letzten Kriegsjahr 1944/45 and concerned the Dachau subcamps of Kaufering and Mühldorf.^[3] Raim died on 1 July 2025.^[4]

Works (selection)

• Raim, Edith (2013). Justiz zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie, Wiederaufbau und Ahndung von NS-Verbrechen in Westdeutschland 1945-1949 [Justice between Dictatorship and Democracy: Democratic Restoration and Punishment of Nazi Crimes in West Germany from 1945 to 1949] (in German). De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-486-73565-9.^[5][6][7]