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Who's Who In Nazi Germany
Who's Who in Nazi Germany looks at the individuals who influenced every aspect of life in Nazi Germany. It covers a representative cross-section of German society from 1933-1945, and includes:
* Nazi Party leaders; SS, Wehrmacht and Gestapo personalities; civil service and diplomatic personnel
* industrialists, churchmen, intellectuals, artists, entertainers and sports personalities
* Resistance leaders, political dissidents, critics and victims of the regime
* extensive biographical information on each figure extending into the post-warr period
* analysis of their role and significance in Nazi Germany
* an accessible, easy to use A-Z layout
* a glossary and comprehensive bibliography.
Who's Who in Nazi Germany will be a fascinating and indispensible source of reference for all those interested in this pivotal period in twentieth-century history.
* Nazi Party leaders; SS, Wehrmacht and Gestapo personalities; civil service and diplomatic personnel
* industrialists, churchmen, intellectuals, artists, entertainers and sports personalities
* Resistance leaders, political dissidents, critics and victims of the regime
* extensive biographical information on each figure extending into the post-warr period
* analysis of their role and significance in Nazi Germany
* an accessible, easy to use A-Z layout
* a glossary and comprehensive bibliography.
Who's Who in Nazi Germany will be a fascinating and indispensible source of reference for all those interested in this pivotal period in twentieth-century history.
- GenresWorld War IIGermany
312 pages, Paperback
Published October 5, 1995
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Robert S. Wistrich
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Robert Solomon Wistrich (Hebrew: רוברט ויסטריך) was a scholar of antisemitism, considered one of the world's foremost authorities on antisemitism.
The Erich Neuberger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and he was also the head of the university's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA). Wistrich considered antisemitism "the longest hatred" and viewed anti-Zionism as its latest incarnation.
Robert Wistrich was born in Lenger, in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic on April 7, 1945. His parents were leftist Polish Jews who had moved to Lviv in 1940 in order to escape from the Germans; however, they discovered that Soviet-style totalitarianism was little better than Nazism. In 1942 they moved to Kazakhstan, where Wistrich's father was imprisoned twice by the NKVD. After World War II, the Wistrichs returned to Poland. Later, finding the post-war environment in Poland to be dangerously anti-Semitic, the family moved to France and then to England. Wistrich grew up in England, where he went to Kilburn Grammar School, where in Wistrich's words, he was taught by "Walter Isaacson, a refugee from Nazi Germany who first taught me how to think independently" His parents later returned to Poland under a repatriation agreement between Stalin and the Polish government-in-exile.
In December 1962, aged 17, Wistrich won an Open Scholarship to study history at Queens' College, Cambridge. In 1966 he graduated with a BA (Hons) from the University of Cambridge, which was raised to a MA degree in 1969. At Cambridge, he founded Circuit, a literary and arts magazine that he co-edited between 1966 and 1969. Between 1969 and 1970, during a study year in Israel, he became the youngest ever literary editor of New Outlook, a left-wing monthly in Tel Aviv, founded by Martin Buber. Wistrich received his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1974.
Robert Solomon Wistrich (Hebrew: רוברט ויסטריך) was a scholar of antisemitism, considered one of the world's foremost authorities on antisemitism.
The Erich Neuberger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and he was also the head of the university's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA). Wistrich considered antisemitism "the longest hatred" and viewed anti-Zionism as its latest incarnation.
Robert Wistrich was born in Lenger, in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic on April 7, 1945. His parents were leftist Polish Jews who had moved to Lviv in 1940 in order to escape from the Germans; however, they discovered that Soviet-style totalitarianism was little better than Nazism. In 1942 they moved to Kazakhstan, where Wistrich's father was imprisoned twice by the NKVD. After World War II, the Wistrichs returned to Poland. Later, finding the post-war environment in Poland to be dangerously anti-Semitic, the family moved to France and then to England. Wistrich grew up in England, where he went to Kilburn Grammar School, where in Wistrich's words, he was taught by "Walter Isaacson, a refugee from Nazi Germany who first taught me how to think independently" His parents later returned to Poland under a repatriation agreement between Stalin and the Polish government-in-exile.
In December 1962, aged 17, Wistrich won an Open Scholarship to study history at Queens' College, Cambridge. In 1966 he graduated with a BA (Hons) from the University of Cambridge, which was raised to a MA degree in 1969. At Cambridge, he founded Circuit, a literary and arts magazine that he co-edited between 1966 and 1969. Between 1969 and 1970, during a study year in Israel, he became the youngest ever literary editor of New Outlook, a left-wing monthly in Tel Aviv, founded by Martin Buber. Wistrich received his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1974.
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November 21, 2022
Dated but helpful nonetheless
April 21, 2017
Very much enjoyed this biography of those persons directly involved within the Third Reich. There were not only military, but business tycoons, artists of all genres, scientists of all areas, and resistance fighters. Although outdated (some biographies are missing death dates because this was published in 1983,) appears very thorough. I cannot imagine absolutely ALL were covered within these 347 pages, but quite a few. Great for those who want to understand some structure to the Nazi org chart.
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