Sönke Neitzel

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{{short description|German historian (born 1968)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1968|6|26}}

| birth_place = Hamburg, West Germany

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| fields = Military history

| workplaces = University of Potsdam
London School of Economics

| alma_mater = University of Mainz

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Sönke Neitzel (born 26 June 1968) is a German historian who has written extensively about the Second World War.{{cite news|last=Overy|first=Richard|title=Secret tapes of top Nazis|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3667563/Secret-tapes-of-top-Nazis.html|accessdate=16 April 2011|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=30 August 2007}} He is editor of the journal German History in the 20th Century and has written several books such as Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying; The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs based on recordings of German POWs held at Trent Park which he wrote with Harald Welzer. Neitzel edited the book Tapping Hitler's Generals (with Harald Welzer).[https://archive.today/20120915111255/http://www.soenke-neitzel.de/de/schriftenverzeichnis/ List of Publications] from Neitzel's personal website (in German){{cite news|last=Thomson|first=Ian|title=Soldaten by Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer: review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/25/soldaten-sonke-neitzel-harald-welzer|newspaper=The Guardian|date=25 January 2013|accessdate=25 January 2013}}Tapping Hitler's Generals: Transcripts of Secret Conversations, 1942–45, Frontline Books, 2007, {{ISBN|978-1-84415-705-1}}