Ernst Klink | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 December 1923 |
| Died | 1993 (aged 69–70) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, author, editor |
| Known for | Member of HIAG, a post-war Waffen-SS lobby group |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Tübingen |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Military History Research Office (MGFA) |
| Main interests | Modern European history[broken anchor] Military history |
| Notable works | Germany and the Second World War |
Ernst Klink (5 December 1923 – 1993) was a German military historian who specialised in Nazi Germany and World War II. He was a long-term employee at the Military History Research Office (MGFA). As a contributor to the seminal work Germany and the Second World War from MGFA, Klink was the first to identify the independent planning by the German Army High Command for Operation Barbarossa.
During Klink's career as a historian, he was a member of, and worked with the denialist Waffen-SS veteran lobby group HIAG. In recent assessments, some of Klink's work has been questioned due to his support for the ahistorical notions of the "clean Wehrmacht" and that the German attack on the Soviet Union had been "preventive".