* 1888 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian ( d. 1967 )

* 1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian ( d. 1944 )

* 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German historian ( d. 1851 )

German historian Ernst Kornemann has had it in his Römische Geschichte vols., ed.

* 1994 – Golo Mann, German historian ( b. 1909 )

In his book, The Blitzkrieg Legend, German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser referred to the notion of ' Blitzkrieg ' as " a world wide delusion ".

In his book the Blitzkrieg Legend, German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser also shares Adam Tooze ' ( in his work The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy ), Overy's and Naveh's concerns over the myth of the blitzkrieg economic and strategy.

Sociological historian Holger Herwig found in studying German explanations for the origins of World War I, " Those events that are most important are hardest to understand, because they attract the greatest attention from myth makers and charlatans.

* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian ( d. 1895 )

* 2002 – Arno Peters, German historian ( b. 1916 )

* 1930 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian ( d. 2002 )

* 1717 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian ( d. 1768 )

The noted German historian Friedrich Meinecke attempted to trace the roots of the expression in a June 11, 1922 article in the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse.

The Israeli historian Omer Bartov wrote that German films of the 1950s showed the average German soldier as a heroic victim: noble, tough, brave, honourable, and patriotic while fighting hard in a senseless war for a regime that he did not care for.

* 1600 – Caspar Hennenberger, German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer ( b. 1529 )

Some Catholics, mainly of German language and largely inspired by the historian Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger ( who did not formally join the new group ) formed the separate Old Catholic Church in protest.

Although the Australian Official History of 24th Brigade's 2 / 32 battalion describes the counterattack force as " German ", the Australian historian Mark Johnston reports that German records indicate that it was the Trento Division that overran the Australian battalion.

Some like the British Marxist historian Timothy Mason have argued that the Second World War was a direct effect of the German economic system, which made expansionism necessary for domestic prosperity, indeed, survival ; and which made Jingoism necessary for the quelling of class conflicts.

According to German historian Jürgen Kocka ( 2010 ):

Explaining the internal impact of the DDR regime from the perspective of German history in the long term, historian Gerhard A. Ritter ( 2002 ) has argued that the East German state was defined by two dominant forces – Soviet Communism on the one hand, and German traditions filtered through the interwar experiences of German Communists on the other.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

* 1947 – Klaus Schulze, German composer

* 1956 – Klaus Allofs, German footballer

* 1979 – Klaus Mainzer, German rugby player

The Court was originally proposed by German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel.

* 1937 – Klaus Basikow, German footballer and manager

* 1963 – Klaus Theiss, German footballer

* 1944 – Klaus Nomi, German singer ( d. 1983 )

* 1969 – Klaus Graf, German race car driver

* 1949 – Klaus Brandner, German politician

The German historian Klaus Hildebrand argued that besides Hitler's foreign policy programme, there were three other factions within the Nazi Party who had alternative foreign policy programmes, whom Hildebrand dubbed the agrarians, the revolutionary socialists, and the Wilhelmine Imperialists.

* German Goncharov on: What the Soviets Learned From Klaus Fuchs

* 1946 – Klaus Dinger, German musician ( Neu !, La Düsseldorf, and Kraftwerk ) ( d. 2008 )

During US involvement in WW II, April 29, 1942, Socony's unescorted tanker, named Mobiloil, was sunk by a German U-boat ( U-108 captained by Klaus Schlotz ), and all 52 people survived after 86 hours adrift in lifeboats.

* 1906 – Klaus Mann, German writer ( d. 1949 )

* 1957 – Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist

* 1950 – Klaus Wunder, German footballer

* Klaus Schedl ( born 1966 ), German composer

** Klaus Mann, German writer ( suicide ) ( b. 1906 )

* November 6 – Klaus Kleinfeld, German business executive

* June 6 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor ( d. 1998 )

** Klaus Kinski, German actor ( d. 1991 )

* May 25 – Klaus Meine, German singer ( Scorpions )