Jörg Echternkamp (born 1963) is a German military historian, who specialises in the history of

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and

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. He is a lecturer in modern history at the

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and a research director at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the German Army (formerly the Military History Research Office (MGFA). His is a contributor and editor of the seminal series ''

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'' from the MGFA.

Historian of Nazi Germany

Echternkamp is contributor to two volumes of the ''

'' series. He served as the editor of volume IX/II: ''German Wartime Society 1939–1945: Exploitation, Interpretations, Exclusion''. Reviewing the volume in the journal ''

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'', historian

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notes that it "maintains the extremely high standards set by previous volumes in the series. Each essay provides both an excellent summing up of the literature (at least until 2005) and some fresh insights based on archival research". In the final volume of the series, Echternkamp deals with the aftermath of World War II, "showing how Hitler's war shaped the lives of tens of millions of people beyond the capitulation of the Wehrmacht". Echternkamp is the co-editor and the contributor to the 2007 volume of essays ''Die Politik der Nation: Deutscher Nationalismus in Krieg und Krisen 1760–1960 he Politics of the Nation: German Nationalism in War and Crises 1760–196' where he explores the topic of German nationalism in the post-World War II period in both

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and

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. A review in

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finds this topic to be "the almost uncharted territory" and that Echternkamp finds that "the main proponents of a new national discourse were often conservative historians who had already been professionally active prior to the Nazi regime". Overall, the goal of editors was to investigate how the abstract notion of a "nation" was evidenced in real-world political aims and programs over the two centuries of German history.

Works

In English

*''Experience and memory: the Second World War in Europe'', New York,

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, 2010. With . *''

'' **Vol. IX: ''Wartime Society 1939–1945'' with , ,

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Jürgen Förster Jürgen Förster (born 1940) is a German historian who specialises in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. He is a professor of history at the University of Freiburg, the position he has held since 2005. Förster is a contributor to t ...

, , , , Christoph Rass **Vol. X: ''Collapse 1945'', with

Werner Rahn Werner Rahn (born June 9, 1939 in Ilsenburg - died November 19, 2022 in Potsdam) was a naval historian and former German naval officer. Career Werner Rahn entered the Naval Academy Mürwik and served at sea and ashore in a variety of appointment ...

, , Richard Lakowski, ,

Horst Boog Horst Boog (5 January 1928 – 8 January 2016) was a German historian who specialised in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. He was the research director at the Military History Research Office (MGFA). Boog was a contributor to ...

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Wilfried Loth Wilfried Loth (born 29 August 1948) is a German historian and political scientist. Life Wilfried Loth was born 29 August 1948 in Wadern. From 1966 to 1972, he studied German studies, History, Philosophy and Education at Saarland University. H ...

, Michael Schwartz,

Rüdiger Overmans Rüdiger Overmans (born 6 April 1954 in Düsseldorf) 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 He ...

In German

* ''Der Aufstieg des deutschen Nationalismus 1770–1840''. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. 1998, . * ''Kriegsschauplatz Deutschland 1945. Leben in Angst. Hoffnung auf Frieden''.

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, Paderborn 2006, . * ''Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen: Der Zweite Weltkrieg.''

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, München 2010, (chin. Taiwan 2012) * ''Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1945/49-1969.'' (= Seminarbuch Geschichte). Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag / UTB, Paderborn 2013, . * ''Soldaten im Nachkrieg. Historische Deutungskonflikte und westdeutsche Demokratisierung 1945-1955'', De Gruyter Oldenbourg Verlag, München 2014, .

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Echternkamp, Jorg German military historians 1963 births Historians of World War II German male non-fiction writers Military History Research Office (Germany) personnel 20th-century German historians Living people