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Heinz Peter Longerich (born 1955) is a German professor of history and historian. He is regarded by Ian Kershaw , Richard Evans , Timothy Snyder , Mark Roseman and Richard Overy , as one of the leading German authorities on the Holocaust .
Goebbels: A Biography is a 2015 book by Peter Longerich. The book presents an account and analysis of the life of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, with extensive material from his diary which he kept from 1923 to 1945. It is an English translation of the 2010 German book Goebbels: Biographie by Longerich. [1] [2]
In his 2015 biography, Peter Longerich pointed out how Hitler implemented his political goals as a strong dictator, with assertiveness, high readiness to assume risk and unlimited power. [12] Some authors were fundamentally opposed to any attempt to explain Hitler, for example by psychological means. [13]
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
Hitler's Role in the Persecution of the Jews by the Nazi Regime. Atlanta: Emory University. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012; Longerich, Heinz Peter (2003). "17. Radicalisation of the Persecution of the Jews by Hitler at the Turn of the Year 1941–1942". Hitler's Role in the Persecution of the Jews by the Nazi Regime. Atlanta: Emory ...
Not at least due to the difficulty of sources, historians disagree about the importance of Ariosophy for Hitler's religious views. As noted in the foreword of The Occult Roots of Nazism by Rohan Butler, Goodrick-Clarke is more cautious in assessing the influence of Lanz von Liebenfels on Hitler than Joachim Fest in his biography of Hitler. [174]
As the outside world began to become aware of the discovery, and the family set up the Lee Miller Archives to preserve her work, Antony was offered an advance to write a biography of his mother.
Historian Peter Longerich interprets "annihilation" to refer to emigration or expulsion of Jews leading to "the end of their collective existence in Germany". [27] Kershaw argues that, while Hitler was not announcing his intentions to Chvalkovský, "the sentiments were not merely rhetoric or propaganda". [26]