Konrad Heiden: 5 books

Konrad Heiden, the son of a union organizer, was born in Munich, Germany, on 7th August 1901. While at the University of Munich he led protests against Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). The historian, Richard Overy, has pointed out: "Heiden was a young socialist...

Der Fuehrer is a book with a deep undertone of horror, sometimes one might say, akin to despair. But Mr. Heiden is remorselessly, ruthlessly objective. He thinks and correctly so, that the world must probe this disease if it hopes to live. Konrad Heiden’s Der Fuehrer is the first complete...

Die Geschichte der Reichspogromnacht wurde bereits wenige Wochen nach dem 9. November 1938 von dem Journalisten Konrad Heiden akribisch aufgezeichnet. Heiden hatte den Aufstieg des Nationalsozialismus seit seinen Anfängen in München beobachtet und in mehreren Büchern beschrieben. In Paris erreichten...

Konrad Heiden was an influential journalist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Eras. He became an early critic of National Socialism after attending a party meeting in 1920. First published in English in 1934, A History of National Socialism provides a detailed account of the growth of...

In 1934, Social Democrat journalist Karl Heiden, wrote this important, critical, contemporary and insightful account of the rise of Nazism from its 1918 origins as Anton Dexler’s German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) through to the eve of the Röhm purge in the 1934, the ‘Night of the Long Knives’....