Operation Barbarossa
Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945
Christian Hartmann
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Christian Hartmann, Historian, Institute of Contemporary History (Munich) and Senior Lecturer, Military Academy of the German Armed Forces
Christian Hartmann works as a historian at the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, and is Senior Lecturer at the Staff College of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg. A board member of the German Committee for the History of the Second World War, he is also a historical adviser to the History Channel in Germany. He has published widely on the history of Germany in the Second World War, including a biography of General Halder, head of the Wehrmacht General Staff in the opening years of the war, and is the editor of four volumes in the German Documents on Foreign Policy series.