id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6726 Ernst Klink - Wikipedia .html text/html 1666 225 70 Ernst Klink (5 February 1923 – 1993) was a German military historian who specialised in Nazi Germany and World War II. As a contributor to the seminal work Germany and the Second World War from MGFA, Klink was the first to identify the independent planning by the German Army High Command for Operation Barbarossa. Klink worked with HIAG and its in-house historian Walter Harzer to screen materials donated to the German Federal Military Archive [de] in Freiburg for any information that may have implicated units and personnel in questionable activity.[4] In the 1960s and 70s, Klink maintained a friendship with Peiper until the latter's death; the two spoke by telephone shortly before Peiper died in a fire on the night of 14 July 1976.[5] Klink was a contributor to the fourth volume, The Attack on the Soviet Union, of Germany and the Second World War, produced by historians of the MGFA. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6726.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6726.txt