Hans-Jürgen Döscher (born November 18, 1943 in

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) is a German

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. Döscher has written many articles about

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and

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, mostly for the

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. He has made nine television documentaries including programs about foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in the 1997 series ''Hitler's Helpers'' on German TV network

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. Döscher studied history, political science and romance studies in

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and

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from 1968 to 1973. He earned his doctorate at the

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. Since 2006 he has been Honorary Professor of Contemporary History at the

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. According to the news magazine Der Spiegel his two studies of the Foreign Office during the Third Reich in 1987 qualify as the "standard works on the wartime ministry". He has been described by one commentator as "Germany's foremost authority" on the events of November 9, 1938, known as

Kristallnacht () or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (german: Novemberpogrome, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's (SA) paramilitary and (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation fro ...

Works

Döscher's books and articles include:Katalog Der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
/ref> * ''The Foreign Office during the Third Reich. Diplomacy in the shadow of the "Final Solution."'' Siedler Verlag, Berlin, 1987, . * ''"Kristallnacht". The pogroms of November 1938.'' 1 Edition. Econ, Frankfurt, 1988, . * ''Conspirators society. The Federal Foreign Office under Adenauer between new beginning and continuity.'' Academy, Berlin 1995, . * ''Cliques. The repressed past the Foreign Ministry.'' Propylaea, Berlin 2005, . * ''"Struggle against Judaism". Gustav Stille 1845-1920. Anti-Semite in the German Empire.'' Metropol, Berlin 2008, .

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in the catalog of the German National Library

at the

{{DEFAULTSORT:Doscher, Hans-Jurgen 20th-century German historians 1943 births Living people 21st-century German historians Academic staff of Osnabrück University