Ernst Klink

Ernst Klink (5 December 1923 – 1993) was a German military historian who specialised in Nazi Germany and World War II. He was a long-term employee at the Military History Research Office (MGFA). 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.

During Klink's career as a historian, he was a member of, and worked with the denialist ''Waffen-SS'' veteran lobby group HIAG. In recent assessments, some of Klink's work has been questioned due to his support for the ahistorical notions of the "clean ''Wehrmacht''" and that the German attack on the Soviet Union had been "preventive". Provided by Wikipedia