Karl-Heinz Frieser


Karl-Heinz Frieser is a German military historian and a retired colonel of the German Army.

Life

Frieser joined the German Army in 1970 and started studying political science as well as history in 1978. In 1981 he acquired a doctorate degree with his thesis Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in der Sowjetunion und das Nationalkomitee "Freies Deutschland". After that, he was one of the principal researchers in the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office. He published an account of the German war against France, denouncing the Blitzkrieg myth, which was translated into several languages. He was also one of the principal researches for the German semi-official history project ''Germany and the Second World War.
In 2009 he retired from the MGFA.

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