Horst Boog - Wikipedia Horst Boog From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "Horst Boog" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2018) Horst Boog Born 5 January 1928 (1928-01-05) Merseburg, Weimar Germany Died 8 January 2016 (2016-01-09) (aged 88) Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Occupation Historian, author, editor Academic background Alma mater University of Heidelberg Academic work Era 20th century Institutions Military History Research Office (MGFA) Main interests Modern European history, military history, historiography Notable works Germany and the Second World War Horst Boog (5 January 1928 – 8 January 2016)[1] was a German historian who specialised in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. He was the research director at the Military History Research Office (MGFA). Boog was a contributor to several volumes of the seminal work Germany and the Second World War from the MGFA. He was an expert on the Luftwaffe and the German side of the aerial war in Europe during World War II. Boog also wrote for the right-wing, nationalistic newspaper Junge Freiheit and became politically active in the context of debates about the Allied strategic bombing during World War II.[2] Since the early 1990s almost all of his work concentrated on arguing that Nazi Germany did not start bombing of civilians.[3] Contents 1 Education and career 2 Military historian of Nazi Germany 3 Benda-Beckmann 4 Works 4.1 In English 4.2 In German 5 References 6 Bibliography Education and career[edit] Born in 1928 in Merseburg, Horst Boog grew up in Germany. In 1944, he joined the Hitler Youth and trained as a glider pilot. Towards the end of the war, he was drafted into the Volkssturm. Unable to secure a placement for university studies in the difficult economic conditions of post-war Germany, he attended a foreign-language school in Leipzig. Subsequently, Boog worked as a translator at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. For the academic year 1949–50, he received a scholarship as an exchange student at Middlebury College in the United States, where he earned the degree of Bachelor of Arts in history and philosophy.[4] Returning from the U.S., Boog worked at the Federal Intelligence Service. He attended evening classes at the University of Stuttgart in 1950/51 and took unpaid time off to attend classes at the University of Heidelberg. In 1965 he earned his PhD under the guidance of Johannes Kühn [de] at Heidelbeg; the topic of his dissertation was the career of Ernst Graf zu Reventlow (1869–1943), a German naval officer, journalist and Nazi politician.[4] He died on 8 January 2016 in Freiburg.[1] Military historian of Nazi Germany[edit] Boog joined the Military History Research Office (MGFA) at Freiburg, where he became a senior research director. While at MGFA, Boog initiated the first scientific conference on the German air war of World War II. Boog contributed to several volumes of the seminal work Germany and the Second World War. Since the 1980s, he has been an internationally recognized expert on the Luftwaffe and on the laws of war, such as the right to war (jus ad bellum) and the law of war (jus in bello).[5] In his works he started to identify with the Luftwaffe[6] and he made a divide between the Nazis and British on one hand and "respectable Germans", writing about "brave decisions and personal courage" of Wehrmacht General Staff.[7] Benda-Beckmann[edit] Bas von Benda-Beckmann is critical of Boog. This Dutch historian criticises Boog for stating the bombings of Guernica, Rotterdam and Warsaw were "tactical" attacks compared to the "terror bombings" by the RAF.[8] Beckmann wrote further that Boog asserted that remained the case only until 1942.[9] Professor Richard Overy argues the same case as Boog with respect to the German side, and the attacks on Warsaw, Rotterdam and Guernica. Overy notes that airmen were ordered to avoid civilians leaving the Polish capital.[10] Another airpower scholar, James Corum argues the rules of warfare in 1937 permitted the attack on Guernica and that the town was a legitimate target in supporting ground forces.[11] Corum argues that the Luftwaffe did not have a policy of so-called "terror bombing", where civilians and civilian infrastructure were targeted.[12] In his writings Benda-Beckmann claimed Boog aimed at portraying Allied bombings of Nazi Germany as equal to Nazi crimes.[9] Boog also wrote for the right-wing, nationalistic newspaper Junge Freiheit and became politically active in the context of debates about the Allied strategic bombing during World War II.[2] In his later writings starting from mid-90s, Benda-Beckmann claimed Boog engaged in criticism of German guilt for Second World War, which he accused of "hypersensitivity" and claimed that just because Hitler was presented as "villain" not everything done in his name was presented as "wrong".[13] Benda-Beckmann also claimed Boog asserted that it was Germany that was "victim" during Second World War air war and not everything done in Nazi Germany was "wrong" or "evil". In doing so he continued a narrative that presented Germans as suffering in Second World War and majority of Germans as "respectable".[14] Works[edit] In English[edit] Germany and the Second World War: Vol. IV: The Attack on the Soviet Union, with Joachim Hoffmann, Ernst Klink, Rolf-Dieter Müller and Gerd R. Ueberschär Vol. VI: The Global War 1941–1943, with Werner Rahn, Reinhard Stumpf (historian) [de] and Bernd Wegner Vol. VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia 1943–1944/5, with Gerhard Krebs [de] and Detlef Vogel In German[edit] Graf Ernst zu Reventlow (1869–1943). Eine Studie zur Krise der deutschen Geschichte seit dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 1965. Die deutsche Luftwaffenführung 1935–1945. Führungsprobleme. Spitzengliederung. Generalstabsausbildung. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-421-01905-3. References[edit] ^ a b "Obituary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". faz.de (in German). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 15, 2016. ^ a b Benda-Beckmann 2010, p. 189. ^ Benda-Beckmann 2010, p. 205. ^ a b "Expertenwissen weltweit gefragt. Horst Boog wird heute 85" [Expert knowledge in demand worldwide: Horst Boog is 85 years old]. Badische-Zeitung.de (in German). Badische Zeitung. January 5, 2013. Archived from the original on July 3, 2014.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) ^ Benda-Beckmann 2010, pp. 170–171. ^ Benda-Beckmann 2010, p. 199. ^ Benda-Beckmann 2010, p. 100. ^ Benda-Beckmann 2010, p. 194. ^ a b Benda-Beckmann 2010, p. 203. ^ Overy 2013, pp. 59-60, 63. ^ Corum 2008, pp. 134, 198-199. ^ Corum 1997, p. 240. ^ Benda-Beckmann 2010, p. 207. ^ Benda-Beckmann 2010, p. 208. Bibliography[edit] Benda-Beckmann, Bas von (2010). A German Catastrophe?: German Historians and the Allied Bombings, 1945–2010. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-90-5629-653-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Corum, James (2008). Wolfram von Richthofen: Master of the German Air War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1598-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Corum, James S. (1997). The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918–1940. Lawrence, KN: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0836-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Overy, Richard (2013). The Bombing War: Europe, 1939–1945. London: Penguin.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) v t e Authors of Germany and the Second World War History book about Nazi Germany Vol. I: Build-up of German Aggression Wilhelm Deist Manfred Messerschmidt Hans-Erich Volkmann Wolfram Wette Vol. II: Initial Conquests in Europe Klaus A. Maier Horst Rohde Bernd Stegemann Hans Umbreit Vol. III: The Mediterranean 1939–1942 Gerhard Schreiber Bernd Stegemann Detlef Vogel Vol. IV: Attack on the Soviet Union Horst Boog Jürgen Förster Joachim Hoffmann Ernst Klink Rolf-Dieter Müller Gerd R. Ueberschär Vol. V: Wartime Economy 1939–1945 Bernhard R. Kroener Rolf-Dieter Müller Hans Umbreit Vol. VI: The Global War Horst Boog Werner Rahn Reinhard Stumpf Bernd Wegner Vol. VII: Strategic Air War 1943–1944/5 Horst Boog Gerhard Krebs Detlef Vogel Vol. VIII: War in the East 1943/44 Karl-Heinz Frieser Klaus Schmider Klaus Schönherr Gerhard Schreiber Krisztián Ungváry Bernd Wegner Vol. IX: Wartime Society 1939–1945 Ralf Blank Bernhard Chiari Jörg Echternkamp Karola Fings Jürgen Förster Winfried Heinemann Tobias Jersak [de] Armin Nolzen Christoph Rass Vol. X: Collapse 1945 Werner Rahn John Zimmermann Richard Lakowski Manfred Zeidler Horst Boog Andreas Horst Boog Rolf-Dieter Müller Wilfried Loth Michael Schwartz Rüdiger Overmans Jörg Echternkamp Authority control BNF: cb12677725w (data) GND: 124137741 ISNI: 0000 0001 0936 0078 LCCN: n82151159 NKC: jn20040409003 NLA: 36456216 NLI: 000022907 NLP: A17932579 NSK: 000261408 NTA: 069347786 PLWABN: 9810628079205606 SUDOC: 086117963 Trove: 1257824 VIAF: 111785307 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n82151159 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horst_Boog&oldid=990594026" Categories: 1928 births 2016 deaths German military historians Historians of World War II German male non-fiction writers Military History Research Office (Germany) personnel 20th-century German historians Heidelberg University alumni Hidden categories: CS1 German-language sources (de) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown Articles needing additional references from September 2018 All articles needing additional references Use mdy dates from October 2016 Articles with hCards CS1 maint: ref=harv Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLP identifiers Wikipedia articles with NSK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Deutsch مصرى Edit links This page was last edited on 25 November 2020, at 11:11 (UTC). 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