Klaus Scholder

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Klaus Scholder (January 12, 1930 - April 10, 1985) was a German ecclesiastical historian, professor of history at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen university. He is known for his book Die Kirchen und das Dritte Reich (The Churches and the Third Reich), of which he completed two volumes before his death. A third volume was completed posthumously in 2001 by his student Gerhard Besier, now Director of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research into Totalitarianism in Dresden.