Manfred Zeidler (historian)

Manfred Zeidler (* 1952 ) is a German historian .

Life

Zeidler studied Eastern European History and Slavic Studies and was particularly concerned with research on the subject of National Socialism and World War II . From 1989 to 1992 he worked on a project supported by the Cultural Foundation of German Displaced Persons about the Red Army in East Germany. In 1991, Zeidler was one of the first western historians to gain insight into the Soviet Union's military archives, which had been secret until then. In 1993 he received his doctorate with a thesis entitled Reichswehr and Red Army, 1920–1933 . Further results were later published in the book End of War in the East .

From 1994 to 1998 Zeidler worked for the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . For the Military History Research Office he was involved in the preparation of the final volumes for the book series Das Deutsche Reich und die Second World War , to which he contributed, among other things, about the "course of the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany and [the] deeper causes of the escalating violence against defenseless and innocent civilians ”contributed.

Fonts

• MfS-Sonderhaftanstalt Bautzen II , edited by the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research at the TU Dresden, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-929048-63-9
• Reichswehr and Red Army 1920–1933. Paths and stations of an unusual collaboration (= contributions to military history , volume 36). Oldenbourg, Munich 1993; 1994, ISBN 3-486-55966-4 (dissertation, University of Frankfurt am Main 1990, 374 [16] pages, illustrations).
• Stalin justice versus Nazi crimes - The war crimes trials against German prisoners of war in the USSR in the years 1943–1952. State of knowledge and research problems (= reports and studies , no. 9), Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism e. V. at TU Dresden, Dresden 1996, ISBN 3-931648-08-7 .
• End of the war in the east - the Red Army and the occupation of Germany east of Oder and Neisse 1944/45. Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56187-1
• The Freiberg Special Court - On Justice and Repression in Saxony 1933–1940 (= Reports and Studies , No. 16), Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarism Research e. V. at the TU Dresden, Dresden 1998, ISBN 978-3-931648-16-9 .
• Prisoners in German and Soviet Custody 1941 - 1956: Dimensions and Definitions (= Reports and Studies , No. 23), published by the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research eV at the Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, 1999, ISBN 3-931648-25 -7 . kart.
• Arno Surminski , Mathias Beer , Manfred Zeidler u. a .: Flight and displacement. Europe between 1939 and 1948. Ellert & Richter, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-8319-0173-2 .
• July 20, 1944 - a replica. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89971-213-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Zeidler in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Literature by and about Manfred Zeidler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review by Michael Epkenhans . In: Historical magazine . Vol. 260, 1995, pp. 616-618.
2. ↑ The Germans and the End of the World War . In: The world . May 6, 2008.
3. ↑ Review by Michael Kißener . In: H-Soz-Kult . July 13, 2005.