The fourth volume, for which he also served as a principal editor, about German and other Axis POW and other military prison camps, will be published in 2021. The exhaustive Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, for which he served as editor-in-chief, so far totals over 4,500 pages in three volumes and has been recipient of a National Jewish Book Award, Judaica Reference Award, Library Journal’s Best of Reference Award and Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic title. His vita lists no fewer than 16 contributions to the Society for Military History, whether conference papers, book or peer reviews, or evaluations of prize nominees. He was an author and editor whose work has been both widely and singularly recognized for over two decades. Geoff continued his sterling scholarship after gaining the Ph.D. Geoff’s work, which actively sought to contradict what German officers’ published memoirs said, also shed new light on the General Staff’s day-to-day functioning during the most intense period of the conflict. In the dissertation, he successfully took to task the then-prevalent notion of the Second World War German General Staff as constituting a smoothly-functioning organization, its members apolitical and not responsible for their own defeat. William Fulbright Fellowship to Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Germany. To support his research and writing, Geoff, received a J. in history from San Jose State University, studying with Professor Charles Burdick.įor his subsequent doctoral dissertation, completed in 1998 at the Ohio State University, Geoff wrote “Triumph of the Null: The War Within the German High Command 1933-1945,” with direction from Professors Williamson Murray, Alan Beyerchen and John F. Following a stint in the corporate world, Geoff earned his M.A. Army officer, and served as a field artilleryman at Fort Ord, California. Lawrence University (during which he joined ROTC and graduated from Ranger School), he became a U.S. Army veteran of the campaign in northwest Europe, an experience which influenced both of Geoff’s interests and career paths. He grew up in Esopus, New York, the son of Ann (née Mohan) and Anthony S. He had been ill for nine months prior to his death.

With great sadness, we must recognize the passing of our colleague and friend Geoffrey Preaut Megargee, in Arlington, Virginia, on 1 August 2020. Contact the Graduate Student Representative.

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