{{short description|German historian (1965–2025) |bot=PearBOT 5}} '''Edith Raim''' ({{IPA|de|ˈeːdɪt ˈʁaɪm|lang}}; 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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Axelrod |first1=Toby |title=40 years later, the 'Holocaust' miniseries returns to Germany |url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/world_news/years-later-the-holocaust-miniseries-returns-to-germany/article_29e180de-8786-5467-90b3-bdff0f5ff095.html |accessdate=6 February 2020 |work=Cleveland Jewish News |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>Balbierer, Thomas. [https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/gedenken-an-nazi-opfer-kaufering-soll-ein-dokuzentrum-bekommen-1.4390307 "Kaufering soll ein Dokumentationszentrum bekommen"], Süddeutsche Zeitung, 31 March 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2021.</ref> Her 1991 dissertation at LMU 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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Raim |first1=Edith |title=Die Dachauer KZ-Außenkommandos Kaufering und Mühldorf: Rüstungsbauten und Zwangsarbeit im letzten Kriegsjahr 1944/45 |publisher=Martin Neumeyer |language=German |date=1992|oclc=32377837 }}</ref> Raim died on 1 July 2025.<ref>[https://www.stiftung-bayerische-gedenkstaetten.de/service/news/zum-tod-von-dr-habil-edith-raim "Zum Tod von Dr. habil. Edith Raim"]. stiftung-bayerische-gedenkstaetten.de (in German). Retrieved 8 July 2025.</ref>
==Works (selection)== *{{cite book |last1=Raim |first1=Edith |title=Justiz zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie, Wiederaufbau und Ahndung von NS-Verbrechen in Westdeutschland 1945-1949|trans-title=Justice between Dictatorship and Democracy: Democratic Restoration and Punishment of Nazi Crimes in West Germany from 1945 to 1949 |date=2013 |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=978-3-486-73565-9 |language=de}} *{{cite book |last1=Raim |first1=Edith |title=The Rise of National Socialism in the Bavarian Highlands. A Microhistory of Murnau, 1919-1933|date=2021 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=|language=en}} <ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stolleis |first1=Michael |title=Edith Raim, Justiz zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie |journal=Jahrbuch Extremismus & Demokratie |date=2014 |pages=342–345 |doi=10.5771/9783845260518_342 |isbn=9783845260518 |publisher=Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG}} </ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Birn |first1=Ruth Bettina |title= Michael Greve, der justitielle und rechtspolitische Umgang mit den NS-Gewaltverbrechen in den sechziger Jahren [Legal and Political Dealings with Nazi Crimes in the 1960s]; Marc von Miquel, Ahnden oder amnestieren? Westdeutsche Justiz und Vergangenheitspolitik in den sechziger Jahren [ Punishment or Amnesty? West German Justice and the Politics of History in the 1960s] Annette Weinke, Eine Gesellschaft ermittelt gegen sich selbst. Die Geschichte der Zentralen Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen 1958-2008 [ A Society Investigates Itself: The History of the Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen from 1958 to 2008] Andreas Eichmüller, Keine Generalamnestie. Die Strafverfolgung von NS-Verbrechen in der frühen Bundesrepublik [ No General Amnesty: The Prosecution of Nazi Crimes in the Early Federal Republic of Germany] Edith Raim, 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]|journal=Journal of International Criminal Justice |date=1 July 2014 |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=639–647 |doi=10.1093/jicj/mqu029 |language=en |issn=1478-1387}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Osterloh |first1=Jörg |title=Edith Raim, Justiz zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie. Wiederaufbau und Ahndung von NS-Verbrechen in Westdeutschland 1945–1949. (Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte, Bd. 96.) München, Oldenbourg 2013 |journal=Historische Zeitschrift |date=23 January 2016 |volume=302 |issue=2 |pages=564–566 |doi=10.1515/hzhz-2016-0178|s2cid=165062801}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Raim, Edith}} Category:1965 births Category:2025 deaths Category:20th-century German historians Category:Historians of Nazism Category:LMU Munich alumni Category:Historians of the Holocaust in Germany Category:German historians of the Holocaust Category:21st-century German historians