Heiden biography
Heiden biography
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Historiography of Adolf Hitler
Chancellor of Germany
The historiography of Adolf Hitler deals with the academic studies of Adolf Hitler from the 1930s to the present.
In 1998, a German editor said there were 120,000 studies of Hitler and Nazi Germany. Since then many more have appeared, with many of them decisively shaping the historiography regarding Hitler.[1]
Early major biographies and historiographical disputes
Konrad Heiden
The first important biography was written in exile in Switzerland by Konrad Heiden (1901-1966), Hitler: A Biography (2 vol Zürich, 1936–1937); an English version appeared as Der Führer – Hitler's Rise to Power (1944).
Eric heiden biography
Heiden was a journalist for a liberal newspaper who witnessed Hitler's rise to power firsthand, and fled to exile when he realized that he was a target of the regime (he managed to escape the Gestapo). In his introduction Heiden wrote "the 'hero' of this book is neither a superman nor a puppet.
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