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Peter Wyden

Born

in Berlin, Germany

October 02, 1923

Died

June 27, 1998

Genre

History, Biography, Nonfiction

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Peter H. Wyden, born Peter Weidenreich, in Berlin to a Jewish family, was an American journalist and writer.

He left Nazi Germany and went to the United States in 1937. After studying at City University of New York, he served with the U.S. Army's Psychological Warfare Division in Europe during World War II. After the war, he began a career in journalism, during which he worked as a reporter for The Wichita Eagle, a feature writer for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington correspondent for Newsweek magazine, a contributing editor for The Saturday Evening Post in Chicago and San Francisco, articles editor for McCall's, and executive editor for Ladies' Home Journal. He authored or coauthored nine books, and numerous articles that appeared in ...more

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	Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal and Survival in Hitler's Germany 3.80 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Day One: Before Hiroshima and After really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bay of Pigs 3.64 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Passionate War: The Narrative History of the Spanish Civil War 3.56 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany 4.52 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wall: The Inside Story of Divided Berlin 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hitler Virus: The Insidious Legacy of Adolf Hitler 3.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1963 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stella Goldschlag: Eine wahre Geschichte by Peter Wyden, Christoph Heubner (Foreword) , Ilse Strasmann (Translator) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Suburbia's Coddled Kids by Peter Wyden, Frank B. Modell (Illustrator) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1962	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It’s the Hitler within us that’s our problem,” said the media expert Peter Boenisch. “Germans are pigheaded. The fascination of Hitler is a reaction to the complexity of the world, so complicated and so insoluble for the lower strata. There is no outlet for frustration.”
― Peter Wyden, The Hitler Virus: The Insidious Legacy of Adolph Hitler

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“The longing for a repetition of Nazi barbarism, with its racism and contempt for humanity, is being openly expressed on the streets, among cronies in pubs, on the radio and television,” the article observed. Skinhead youths would not be rampaging, it pointed out, “if they did not feel backed by the prejudices and resentments of the silent majority.”
― Peter Wyden, The Hitler Virus: The Insidious Legacy of Adolph Hitler

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“Normally, a guilt-laden individual is isolated from society, but in a group he does not have to endure this fate, being merely a sinner among sinners” (emphasis added). Mitscherlich s own”
― Peter Wyden, The Hitler Virus: The Insidious Legacy of Adolph Hitler

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