Earl Frederick Ziemke (December 16, 1922 – October 15, 2007) was an American military historian whose work was mainly on World War II and especially the Soviet-German clash in Eastern Europe.
Earl Ziemke was born on December 16, 1922, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and served in the Marines during World War II.
From 1951 until 1955, he worked at the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia University, while for the period 1955–1967, he was an official historian for the United States Army's Office of the Chief of Military History in Washington, D.C.
[2] He occasionally served as an expert witness for the US Justice Department on war crimes trials relating to the Holocaust.
A memorial service was also held at the Great Episcopal Church of Saint Gregory in Athens, Georgia on December 15.