Hans Kirchhoff (historian)

Hans Kirchhoff (* 1933 ) is a Danish historian who specializes in Denmark under German occupation . Kirchhoff is a retired lecturer at the University of Copenhagen .

Kirchhoff's dissertation from 1979 deals with the Danish rebellion in August 1943, which ended the government policy that Kirchhoff called collaboration at the time and thus sparked outrage. The term was reminiscent of the Vichy regime in France, whereas Danish politics was usually referred to as cooperation . Kirchhoff broke the national consensus and thus initiated the open discussion of this phase of his own history, which was probably the best-researched in Denmark.

In 2002, the Danish Royal Library recognized his book Samarbejde og modstand under besættelsen (“Cooperation and Resistance under Occupation”) as the most important and most important Danish work of the year.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Kirchhoff . University of Copenhagen.
2. ↑ Flemming Schneider Rhode: The Legitimation of Cooperation (PDF; 331 kB) Wake Forest University . S. August 15, 2011.
3. ^ Karl Christian Lammers : The German occupation policy and its Danish partners . In: The German rule in the "Germanic" countries 1940-1945 . Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07099-0 , pp. 141 ( excerpt online , Google Books ).
4. ↑ Tidligere prismodtagere . The congregational library. Archived from the original on October 17, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.