Wolfgang Scheffler (historian)

Wolfgang Scheffler (22 July 1929, in Leipzig – 18 November 2008, in Berlin) was a German historian. He was a graduate and later, Professor of Political Science and History at the Free University of Berlin.^[1] In the 1960s, he was engaged in massive research of the Third Reich National Socialist policy toward the Jews in unpublished archival material, on behalf of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). He was a member of the German delegation at the Eichmann trial.^[2] In 1969, at the second Treblinka trial Scheffler submitted his expert opinion based on new evidence, estimating the total number of persons killed at the Treblinka extermination camp to be around 900,000 victims.^[3]

Bibliography

• Book of Remembrance. The German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian Jews deported to the Baltic States, 2 volumes, Saur Verlag, Munich 2003 (with Diana Schulle, in German and English)
• Judenverfolgung Im Dritten Reich, 1933–1945 [Persecution of Jews under the Third Reich], Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1960 (six editions)
• Reinhard Heydrich; Himmler, Heinrich in: Neue Deutsche Biographie, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972
• Goldschmiede Rheinland-Westfalens: Daten, Werke, Zeichen (1973)
• Der Beitrag der Zeitgeschichte zur Erforschung der NS-Verbrechen, Munich 1984
• Gemalte Goldschmiedearbeiten (1985)
• Goldschmiede Oberfrankens: Daten, Werke, Zeichen (1989)
• Der Ghetto-Aufstand Warschau 1943, Goldmann Wilhelm GmbH 1993 (with Helge Grabitz)