Robin Schäfer
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Robin Schäfer

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Rob is a historian, author, writer and producer and media consultant whose field of expertise is the experience of the German soldier in wartime (1813-1945). He is the creator and former historical editor of the UK’s ‘Iron Cross Magazine. As a writer and adviser he has most recently written several episodes of the much-lauded, Netflix-produced 'Voices of Liberation' documentary series about the international memorial route that connects important milestones of the liberation from west to east at the end of the Second World War (available in the UK in May 2023). As a producer and writer for the UK’s number one history streaming service ‘History Hit TV’ he has written and co-produced the two-part documentary ‘Barbarossa: The Lost Diaries’. As a historical consultant and adviser he has worked for the British UCL Institute of Education and Equity and the British Ministry of Media, Culture and Sports and was commissioned as historical consultant for the British National Commemoration Events marking the Centenary of The Battle of the Somme at Westminster Abbey in presence of Her Majesty the Queen accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh. In 2017/2018 he was a co-creator and German lead-historian of the acclaimed and award-winning DigHill80 battlefield archaeology project, which led to the discovery of what the international press christened the ‘Pompeii of the Western Front’ and to the recovery of the mortal remains of over 100 missing German, French, British and Canadian soldiers of the First World War. As a specialist writer he regularly supplies articles for a wealth of international military history magazines and newspapers in Britain, France, Germany, Spain and the US. His latest academic research, on the discovery of the ‘fate of the Waterloo bones’ and the industrial exploitation of battlefield burials in the early industrial age, will be published by the Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (Cegesoma, Brussels) and the Royal Belgian State Archive in January 2023.
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