| Jörg Echternkamp | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963 (age 60–61) Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, author, editor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Bielefeld |
| Academic work | |
| Era | 20th century |
| Institutions | Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Military History Research Office (MGFA) |
| Main interests | Modern European history, military history, historiography |
| Notable works | Germany and the Second World War |
Jörg Echternkamp (born 1963) is a German military historian, who specialises in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. He is a lecturer in modern history at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg 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 Germany and the Second World War from the MGFA.
Historian of Nazi Germany
Echternkamp is contributor to two volumes of the Germany and the Second World War series. He served as the editor of volume IX/II: German Wartime Society 1939–1945: Exploitation, Interpretations, Exclusion. Reviewing the volume in the journal German History, historian Jeff Rutherford 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 where he explores the topic of German nationalism in the post-World War II period in both East Germany and West Germany. A review in H-Net 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, Berghahn Books, 2010. With Stefan Martens [de].
- Germany and the Second World War
- Vol. IX: Wartime Society 1939–1945 with Ralf Blank [de], Bernhard Chiari [de], Karola Fings, Jürgen Förster, Winfried Heinemann [de], Tobias Jersak [de], Armin Nolzen [de], Christoph Rass
- Vol. X: Collapse 1945, with Werner Rahn, John Zimmermann (historian) [de], Richard Lakowski, Manfred Zeidler [de], Horst Boog, Andreas Horst Boog, Rolf-Dieter Müller, Wilfried Loth, Michael Schwartz, Rüdiger Overmans
In German
- Der Aufstieg des deutschen Nationalismus 1770–1840. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. 1998, ISBN 3-593-35960-X.
- Kriegsschauplatz Deutschland 1945. Leben in Angst. Hoffnung auf Frieden. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-506-72892-X.
- Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen: Der Zweite Weltkrieg. C.H. Beck, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59314-7 (chin. Taiwan 2012)
- Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1945/49-1969. (= Seminarbuch Geschichte). Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag / UTB, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-8252-3724-0.
- Soldaten im Nachkrieg. Historische Deutungskonflikte und westdeutsche Demokratisierung 1945-1955, De Gruyter Oldenbourg Verlag, München 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-035122-4.
References
- MGFA Profile
- Rutherford, Jeff (2015). "Review: Germany and the Second World War, volume IX/II: German Wartime Society 1939–1945: Exploitation, Interpretations, Exclusion". German History. 33 (1). Oxford University Press: 162−164. doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghu098.
- Kellerhoff, Sven Felix (2008). "Die Deutschen und das Ende des Weltkriegs" [The Germans and the End of World War II]. Die Welt. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
- Huether, Andreas (2007). "Review: Jörg Echternkamp, Sven Oliver Müller, eds. Die Politik der Nation: Deutscher Nationalismus in Krieg und Krisen 1760-1960". H-Net. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
External links
- Literature by and about Jörg Echternkamp in the German National Library catalogue
| Authors of Germany and the Second World War | |
|---|---|
| History book about Nazi Germany | |
| Vol. I: Build-up of German Aggression | |
| Vol. II: Initial Conquests in Europe | |
| Vol. III: The Mediterranean 1939–1942 | |
| Vol. IV: Attack on the Soviet Union | |
| Vol. V: Wartime Economy 1939–1945 | |
| Vol. VI: The Global War | |
| Vol. VII: Strategic Air War 1943–1944/5 | |
| Vol. VIII: War in the East 1943/44 | |
| Vol. IX: Wartime Society 1939–1945 | |
| Vol. X: Collapse 1945 | |