Charles W. Sydnor Jr.
Charles W. Sydnor Jr. was an American historian of the Holocaust and World War II. He served as the Virginia Holocaust Museum’s Executive Director. His doctoral thesis, "Soldiers of Destruction: A History of the SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945" was published in 1977 by Princeton University Press and in a second revised edition in 1990. Sydnor Jr. died on 28 November 2025, at the age of 82.