Werner Conze (1910-1986)


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Name (English): Werner Conze
Short name: Werner Conze
Year of birth: 1910
Year of death: 1986
Short Description: "Werner Conze (born December 11, 1910 in Amt Neuhaus, died April 1986 in Heidelberg) was a pro- Nazi German historian in Nazi Germany, who continued to work as historian in post-World War II West Germany. He was a member of the Schieder commission.

Werner Conze was a doctoral student of Hans Rothfels in Königsberg under the Nazis, where he claimed in his research that Germans had a positive role in development of eastern Europe. With the Nazis taking power, Conze, together with Schieder and Rothfels, helped to institutionalize racial ethnic research in the Third Reich. According to German historian Ingo Haar, "the Nazis made use of (this) racialist scholarship, which lent itself gladly". He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1934. While working for German espionage, in 1936, Conze prepared a document which portrayed Poland as backward and in need of German order and which recommended the exclusion of Jews from the legal system, as Conze considered them outside the law. In further work issued in 1938 Conze continued in a similar vein, blaming lack of industry in Belarus on "Jewish domination". Between 1937 and 1940 in a series of articles Conze proposed dejewification of Eastern Europe, particularly Lithuania and Belarus." - (en.wikipedia.org 28.10.2020)
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