Helmut Krausnick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German historian
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Place of Birth: Wenden-Thune-Harxbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Helmut Krausnick
- Helmut Krausnick (1905–1990) was a German historian and author.
- From 1959 to 1972, he was the head of the Institute of Contemporary History, a leading German research institute on the history of National Socialism. Krausnick co-authored Die Truppe des Weltanschauungskrieges, the 1981 work on the mass murder of Jews in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union by the Einsatzgruppen, which was considered a milestone in Holocaust studies.
- It was also one of the first publications to challenge the myth of the "clean" Wehrmacht.
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