Germany and the Second World War: Volume IX/I: German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival

Ralf Blank, M.A. (b. 1962). Studied history and classical and prehistoric archaeology at Cologne and Bochum, as well as applied and theoretical museology at Graz; curator and head of collections and documentation department at the Historischen Centrum Hagen; lecturer in modern and recent history at the Ruhr University at Bochum; preparing a doctoral thesis on the home front and the postwar period in Southern Westphalia (Prof. Norbert Frei); Dr. Jörg Echternkamp (b. 1963). Studied science of history and Romance studies at the University of Bielefeld, University of Poitiers, and the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA); on the scientific staff of the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt [Research Institute for Military History], Potsdam;Dr. Karola Fings (b. 1962). Studied history and German language and literature at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf; deputy director of the National Socialism Documenta­tion Centre of the city of Cologne; lecturer at University of Cologne;Dr. Jürgen Förster (b. 1940). Studied English language and literature, philosophy, and history at Nottingham and Cologne (Ph.D. 1974); several visiting professorships, most recently as Miegunyah Distinguished Fellow at the University of Melbourne; adjunct professor at Freiburg UniversityCol. Winfried Heinemann, Ph.D. (b.1956). Studied history and English language and literature at the Ruhr University, Bochum and at the Department of War Studies, King's College,London; on the scientific staff of the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt [Research Institute for Military History], Potsdam;Tobias Jersak Ph.D. (b. 1972). 1999-2000 Research assistant to the defence in Irving vs. Lipstadt; 2000-2004 lecturer in history (University of Stuttgart) and church history (University of Münster); published and edited several books and articles besides educational software on National Socialism, the Holocaust, and Enlightenment thought; moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2005 where he is now working with street-children;Armin Nolzen M.A. (b. 1968). Studied science of history, German language and literature (modern German literature), social science (political science), and philosophy at the Ruhr University, Bochum; member of the editorial board of Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus; member of working group on historical peace research; preparing a doctoral thesis on the history of the NSDAP (Prof. Hans Mommsen);Dr. Christoph A. Rass, (b. 1969). Studied economic and social history, modern history, and information science at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken; assistant lecturer in the teaching and research department for economic and social history at the RWTH [Rhineland-Westphalia Institute of Technology] Aachen University;