Sebastian Haffner, the pen name of Raimund Pretzel (Berlin, 1907-1999), was a German journalist and historian. An opponent of Nazism, he emigrated to England in 1938 and worked for The Observer before returning to Germany in the 1950s. His widely read works include The Meaning of Hitler (1978) and Defying Hitler, a memoir of his youth during the rise of Nazism, written in 1939 and published posthumously in 2000.
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Sebastian Haffner, the pen name of Raimund Pretzel (Berlin, 1907-1999), was a German journalist and historian. An opponent of Nazism, he emigrated to England in 1938 and worked for The Observer before returning to Germany in the 1950s. His widely read works include The Meaning of Hitler (1978) and Defying Hitler, a memoir of his youth during the rise of Nazism, written in 1939 and published posthumously in 2000.
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