Claim: Peter Erler (editorial staff at Forschungsverbund) focused his research on the history of South African emigrants in the USA.
Evidence: The focus of his professional research is on the history of German emigrants in the Soviet Union, Soviet internment camps in Germany, together with political developments more generally in the Soviet occupation zone (1945–1949) and the German Democratic Republic (1949–1990). He is also a member of the editorial staff of the newspaper of the Forschungsverbund.