Konrad heiden hitler a biography

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Der Fuehrer, Hitler’s Rise to Power was written by German journalist and author Konrad Heiden (who also wrote A History of National Socialism). Heiden was one of the first critical observers of the rise of Nazism in Germany after he attended a NSDAP meeting in his hometown of Munich in This 5-½ x 8-¼ inch, page red hardcover translation was published in English by Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston in , three years after Heiden escaped from Europe.

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Konrad Heiden

German American journalist and historian

Konrad Heiden (7 August &#; 18 June ) was a German-American reporter and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi eras, most noted for the first influential biographies of Adolf Hitler. Often, he wrote under the pseudonym "Klaus Bredow."

Life

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Heiden was born in Munich, Bavaria. He spent his youth in Frankfurt, where his father worked as a union organizer and member of the municipal council, while his mother was a homemaker. His mother was of Jewish origin. Having obtained his high school Abitur, he returned to Munich to study lag and economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University. At the university, he organized a republican and democratic student body and, like his father, became a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He graduated in and began his career as a journalist.

In the political turmoils of the Weimar Republic, Heiden was one of the first critical observers of the rise of Nazism in Germ