Enzo Traverso (Piedmont, 1957) Historian and PhD from l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). During the years 1991-1995 was head of research at the German section of the Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine of Nanterre. Begins teaching at the EHESS and currently is a professor of political science at the University of Picardie - Jules Verne. He specializes in German-Jewish philosophy, in Nazism, anti-Semitism and the two world wars.