Christian Ingrao (born 13 June 1970) is a French

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. He is the

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at CNRS within the Raymond Aron Center for Sociological and Political Studies (CESPRA) of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in

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. A specialist in the history of

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and the violence of war, he dedicates himself to the

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of Nazi German militancy and practices of

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, particularly on

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's Eastern Front. He was director of the Institute for the History of the Present Time from 2008 to 2013.

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* * * * * 1970 births 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians French military historians Historians of Germany Living people Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research {{historian-stub