Ernst Klee

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Ernst Klee
Frankfurt am Main
Died18 May 2013(2013-05-18) (aged 71)
Frankfurt am Main
OccupationHistorian, author
GenreWorld War II
Notable works'The Good Old Days': The Holocaust Through the Eyes of the Perpetrators and Bystanders

Ernst Klee (15 March 1942,

Action T4 or involuntary euthanasia
program. He is the author of "The Good Old Days": The Holocaust Through the Eyes of the Perpetrators and Bystanders first published in the English translation in 1991.

Life and work

Klee was first trained as a sanitary and heating technician. Afterwards, he caught up on his university entrance requirements and then studied theology and social education.

As a journalist in the 1970s, he looked at socially excluded groups, such as the

disabled. During this period, he collaborated with Gusti Steiner
, who laid the foundation for the federal German emancipatory movement of the disabled at that time.

In 1997, he received the

disabled people was the decisive factor in the former Westfälische Schule für Körperbehinderte (Westphalian School for the Physically Disabled) in Mettingen being renamed the Ernst-Klee-Schule in his honor in 2005.[2]

Klee wrote for the weekly newspaper,

Nazi extermination camps in German-occupied Poland.[5]
Contemporary author Karl-Heinz Janßen wrote on 27 February 1987 about Klee, "Contemporary historical research ignores this subject [of medical crimes during the Nazi period]; [...] if it were not for the free-lance journalist, Ernst Klee, who went to the effort of reading thousands of case files and rummaging through archives of institutions, almost nothing would be known today about one of the most horrible atrocities of this century."

Klee died in his hometown of Frankfurt am Main at the age of 71 after a long and severe illness.

Bibliography

ISBN 3-596-24327-0
), 2005 photo

Translations:

Selected works in German:

Documentary

Selected awards

References

  1. ^ "Historiker Ernst Klee ist tot"
  2. ^ Scans of several newspaper articles on the renaming of the school and Klee's visit there Retrieved 27 May 2010 (in German)
  3. ^ "50 Jahre Berichterstattung über NS-Verbrechen von Ärzten in SPIEGEL und ZEIT" (PDF) ("50 Years of Reporting about Nazi Crimes of Doctors in Der Spiegel and Die Zeit), dissertation for Diplom, 1997 (in German)
  4. ^ "DBE: Von deutschem Ruhm" (DBE: Of German Fame), Die Zeit, 25 September 2003, No. 40. Retrieved 27 May 2010 (in German)
  5. ^ "Heitere Stunden in Auschwitz" (Happy Hours in Auschwitz) Archived 4 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine, in Die Zeit, No. 5, 25 January 2007 (in German)

External links

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