Principal Investigator

Principal Investigator: Dr. Roger Minert

Roger P. Minert, associate professor of family history
Dept. of Church History and Doctrine in the College of Religious Education, BYU (since 2003)

BA (German) BYU (1977)
MA (German Literature) The Ohio State University (1987)
Ph.D. (Second Language Acquisition Theory and German Language History) The Ohio State University (1991)
A.G. Accredited Genealogist for Germany (1992) and Austria (1993) by the Family History Library

Website: www.rogerpminert.com

Responsibilities:

Solicit funding to pay student research assistants and other projects costs
Hire, train and supervise student research assistants
Arrange and/or conduct interviews of all eyewitnesses
Identify information sources, procure and study them
Answer inquiries regarding the project
Write the actual book(s)
Secure a publisher for the book(s)

Background: Roger P. Minert was a student research assistant under Prof. Douglas F. Tobler at BYU. He researched various aspects of the Church in Germany from 1900 to 1945 and noticed many official notices of the deaths of LDS soldiers in two World Wars. Since that time, he has wanted to write a detailed history of the Church during World War II. Many years passed before his employment allowed him to write that history. Surprised that this had never been written, he has set out to rectify the situation.