Dr Wolfgang Scheffler (22 July 1929, in

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– 18 November 2008, in

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) was a graduate and later, Professor of Political Science and History at the

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.Inauthor:"Wolfgang Scheffler"
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National Socialist policy toward the Jews in unpublished archival material, on behalf of

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(DFG). He was a member of the German delegation at the Eichmann trial.Norman Cohn (1980)
Wolfgang Scheffler
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to be around 900,000 victims.Henry Friedlander
The Demjanjuk Case.
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Bibliography

* ''Book of Remembrance. The German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian Jews deported to the Baltic States'', 2 volumes, Saur Verlag, Munich 2003 (with Diana Schulle, in German and English) * ''Judenverfolgung Im Dritten Reich, 1933–1945'' ersecution of Jews under the Third Reich Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1960 (six editions) * ''Reinhard Heydrich''; ''Himmler, Heinrich'' in: ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'', Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972 * ''Goldschmiede Rheinland-Westfalens: Daten, Werke, Zeichen'' (1973) * ''Der Beitrag der Zeitgeschichte zur Erforschung der NS-Verbrechen'', Munich 1984 * ''Gemalte Goldschmiedearbeiten'' (1985) * ''Goldschmiede Oberfrankens: Daten, Werke, Zeichen'' (1989) * ''Der Ghetto-Aufstand Warschau 1943'', Goldmann Wilhelm GmbH 1993 (with Helge Grabitz)

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