Johannes Meerwald is a PhD candidate at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main. He studied History, Spanish and Political Science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and the Philipps University in Marburg. His research interests include the history of the Holocaust, the subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp, and the persecution of Spanish Republicans during the Nazi era. In his dissertation project Meerwald examines the late phase of the Holocaust in the southern part of Bavaria.