Horst Boog was a German historian who specialised in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II.
10 Facts About Horst Boog
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Horst Boog was the research director at the Military History Research Office.
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Horst Boog was an expert on the Luftwaffe and the German side of the aerial war in Europe during World War II.
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Horst Boog wrote for the right-wing, nationalistic newspaper Junge Freiheit and became politically active in the context of debates about the Allied strategic bombing during World War II.
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Subsequently, Horst Boog worked as a translator at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
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Horst Boog joined the Military History Research Office at Freiburg, where he became a senior research director.
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Horst Boog contributed to several volumes of the seminal work Germany and the Second World War.
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Bas von Benda-Beckmann is critical of Horst Boog, criticising him for stating the bombings of Guernica, Rotterdam and Warsaw were "tactical" attacks compared to the Allied strategic bombing raids during World War II, which Horst Boog described "terror bombings".
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Beckmann wrote further that Horst Boog asserted that remained the case only until 1942.
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Horst Boog wrote for the right-wing, nationalistic newspaper Junge Freiheit and became politically active in the context of debates about the Allied strategic bombing during World War II.