Karl Dietrich Bracher (1922–2016)
Author of The German Dictatorship: The Origins, Structure and Effects of National Socialism
About the Author
Karl Dietrich Bracher was born in Stuttgart, Germany on March 13, 1922. He was educated at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. During World War II, he fought with the German army. He was captured by American soldiers while serving in the Wehrmacht's Afrika Korps in Tunisia and held as a show more prisoner of war in Kansas. Returning to Germany after the war, he received a doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 1948 and studied at Harvard University from 1949 to 1950. He taught at the Free University of Berlin before joining the faculty at the University of Bonn, where he taught politics and contemporary history from 1959 to 1987. As a historian, he argued that the German people had to take responsibility for the rise of Nazism because of their embrace of Hitler and his racist agenda. He wrote several books including The German Dictatorship: The Origins, Structure and Effects of National Socialism and The Age of Ideologies: A History of Political Thought in the Twentieth Century. He died on September 19, 2016 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Karl Dietrich Bracher
The German Dictatorship: The Origins, Structure and Effects of National Socialism (1969) — Author — 258 copies, 1 review
La dittatura tedesca: origini, strutture, conseguenze del nazionalsocialismo (1969) 4 copies, 1 review
Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Bd. 5. Teilband 1. Republik im Wandel. 1969-1974. Die Ära Brandt. (1986) 3 copies
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- Canonical name
- Bracher, Karl Dietrich
- Birthdate
- 1922-03-13
- Date of death
- 2016-09-19
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Tubingen (Ph.D.|Classics|1948)
- Occupations
- political scientist
historian
professor - Organizations
- American Philosophical Society
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie
British Academy (Corresponding Fellow)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Short biography
- Bracher obtuvo un doctorado en literatura antigua por la Universidad de Tubinga en 1948, tras el cual cursó estudios en la Universidad de Harvard entre 1949 y 1950. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, sirvió en la Wehrmacht y fue capturado por el ejército de los Estados Unidos en 1943. Fue profesor de la Universidad Libre de Berlín entre 1950 y 1958 y de la Universidad de Bonn a partir de 1959.
Fuente: Wikipedia - Nationality
- Germany
- Birthplace
- Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Place of death
- Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Map Location
- Germany
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Origini, strutture, conseguenze del nazionalsocialismo in Germania.
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