Jens-Christian Wagner (born 1966) is a German historian who specializes in the Nazi era and the politics of memory. Wagner has published multiple academic books about Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp and its subcamps. He was the director of Mittelbau-Dora memorial from 2001, was the chairman of , and became the overseer of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation in 2020. Historical research In 1999, Wagner received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen; his dissertation, supervised by , focused on the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp and was later published as Produktion des Todes: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora ("Production of Death: the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp"). , it is the only book that covers the entire history of Mittelbau-Dora. The book focuses on the collaboration between the SS and the armaments industry, the relationship between extermination and forced labor, and the position of the camp vis-a-vis its surroundings. According to reviewer Christiane Grieb, the book, unlike other studies, focuses on the victims of the camp rather than on "wonder weapons" and correctly identifies death as the main "product" of the camp. She praised the book for its in-depth research and placing the camp in its historical and spatial context. Historian stated, "Anyone interested in the history of the Kohnsteiner camp complex and the relationship between work and extermination in the concentration camp system cannot ignore this book." In 2009, Wagner published a book, Ellrich 1944/45: Konzentrationslager und Zwangsarbeit in einer deutschen Kleinstadt ("Ellrich 1944/45: Concentration camp and forced labor in a small German town") about the Ellrich concentration camp complex, a subcamp of Mittlebau-Dora which operated in 1944 and 1945 in the Harz mountains around the town of Ellrich. Historian Panikos Panayi praised the book for its high quality and comprehensive coverage, stating that it was "a precise and detailed narrative of virtually all aspects of the camps". Memorial work Wagner has served as the director of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp memorial since 2001. In 2014, he was appointed chairman of the whose purpose is to commemorate Nazi crimes committed in Lower Saxony, for a five-year term. In May 2020, he succeeded as the director of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. Wagner stated that in the late 2010s, there was an increase in hecklers at Nazi concentration camp sites who questioned historical facts and tried to downplay Nazi crimes. Wagner stated that heckling incidents occurred "on a weekly basis from people of all ages and all