Hans-Jürgen Döscher (born November 18, 1943, in Eberswalde, Province of Brandenburg) is a German historian.
Döscher has written many articles about Nazism and anti-Semitism, mostly for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
He has made nine television documentaries including programs about foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in the 1997 series Hitler's Helpers on German TV network ZDF.
According to the news magazine Der Spiegel his two studies of the Foreign Office during the Third Reich in 1987 qualify as the "standard works on the wartime ministry".
[1] He has been described by one commentator as "Germany's foremost authority" on the events of November 9, 1938, known as Kristallnacht.