Jörg Echternkamp (born 1963) is a German military historian, who specialises in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II.
[1] His is a contributor and editor of the seminal series Germany and the Second World War from the MGFA.
He served as the editor of volume IX/II: German Wartime Society 1939–1945: Exploitation, Interpretations, Exclusion.
Each essay provides both an excellent summing up of the literature (at least until 2005) and some fresh insights based on archival research".
Overall, the goal of editors was to investigate how the abstract notion of a "nation" was evidenced in real-world political aims and programs over the two centuries of German history.