Karola Fings (born 1962 in Leverkusen [1] ) is a German historian.
The Yenish are an itinerant group in Western Europe, living mostly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and parts of France, roughly centred on the Rhineland. Multiple theories for the group's origins have been proposed, including that the Yenish descended from members of the marginalized and vagrant poor classes of society of the early modern period, before emerging as a distinct group by the early 19th century. Most of the Yenish became sedentary in the course of the mid-19th to 20th centuries.
The Hanseatic Goethe Prize was a German literary and artistic award, given biennially from 1949 to 2005 to a figure of European stature. The prize money was €25,000. On the occasion of Goethe's 200th birthday, the Freiherr vom Stein Foundation in Hamburg endowed a cultural prize "for important personalities in the intellectual life". The prize was awarded by the foundation of the Hamburg businessman Alfred Toepfer, Alfred Toepfer Foundation F. V. S..
Werner Rahn is a naval historian and former German naval officer.
Imanuel Geiss was a German historian.
This order of battle lists the Soviet and German forces involved in the Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket in January–February 1944.
The NS Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne was founded by a resolution passed by the Cologne city council on December 13, 1979, and has become the largest regional memorial site in all of Germany for the victims of the Nazis. Since 1988, it has been housed in "EL-DE Haus," the EL-DE building, named for the initials of its owner, Catholic businessman Leopold Dahmen. This building was the headquarters of the Cologne Gestapo between December 1935 and March 1945. In the final months of the war, several hundred people, most of them foreign forced laborers, were murdered in the courtyard of the building. In a bit of historical irony, the EL-DE building remained largely untouched by the ravages of the war.
Karl-Heinz Frieser is a German military historian and a retired colonel of the German Army.
The Imperial Military Constitution was the collection of military laws of the Holy Roman Empire. Like the rest of the imperial constitution, it grew out of various laws and governed the establishment of military forces within the Empire. It was the basis for the establishment of the Army of the Holy Roman Empire, which was under the supreme command of the Emperor but was distinct from his Imperial Army, as it could only be deployed by the Imperial Diet. The last Imperial Defence Order (Reichsdefensionalordnung), entitled Reichsgutachten in puncto securitatis, of 13/23 May 1681, completed the military constitution of the Holy Roman Empire.
H-Soz-u-Kult is an online information and communication platform for historians which disseminates academic news and publications.
Rüdiger Overmans is a German military historian who specializes in World War II history. His book German Military Losses in World War II, which he compiled as leader of a project sponsored by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. It is one of the most comprehensive works about German casualties in World War II.
Bernd Wegner is a German historian who specialises in military history and the history of Nazism. Since 1997 he has been professor of modern history at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany.
Jörg Echternkamp is a German military historian, who specialises in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. He is a lecturer in modern history at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and a research director at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the German Army (formerly the Military History Research Office. His is a contributor and editor of the seminal series Germany and the Second World War from the MGFA.
Michael Borgolte is a German Historian. Besides the history of medieval endowments he studies mainly the Comparative history of Europe and the Global history of the Middle Ages.
Stephan Lehnstaedt is a German historian of the Holocaust.
Der Ort des Terrors is a nine-volume German-language encyclopedia series of the Nazi concentration camps and subcamps, published between 2005 and 2009. The first volume centers around the Nazi concentration camps and volumes 2-7 focuses on the 20+ main camps and approximately 1,000 subordinate camps.
Bertrand Perz is an Austrian academic who is known for his research into Mauthausen concentration camp.
The Holocaust in Croatia (2016) is a book by Ivo and Slavko Goldstein, first published as Holokaust u Zagrebu in 2001. It received positive reviews in English-language publications, and was praised for its evenhanded and nuanced approach to controversial subject matter. It was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.
Professor Hans-Erich Volkmann is a German historian, whose works primarily deal with the history of Germany from the 19th-20th century, and particularly how it relates to the East European states. He is most notable for being one of the authors of the first volume of Germany and the Second World War. He has also been one of the editors of Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift.
Ferenc Laczó is a historian at Maastricht University.
Ordinary Organizations: Why Normal Men Carried Out the Holocaust is a book by German sociologist Stefan Kühl. It was originally published in German, as Ganz normale Organisationen. Zur Soziologie des Holocaust, in 2014. It was translated into English by Jessica Spengler in 2016.