Harold J. Gordon Jr.

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Harold Jackson Gordon Jr. ( December 30, 1919 - July 1980 ) was an American historian .

Gordon received his PhD in New Haven in 1953 . He had been Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 1962 . He wrote one of the standard works on the Hitler putsch in 1923. His portrayal of the Hitler putsch is "no longer to be surpassed in terms of accuracy and wealth of facts," wrote Horst Bieber under the title The dictatorship of the petty bourgeoisie - Why the middle class became the breeding ground for fascism in 1972 in the weekly newspaper Die time .

Fonts

  • The Reichswehr and the Weimar Republic. 1919-1926. Verlag für Wehrwesen Bernard & Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1959.
  • Hitler putsch 1923. Power struggle in Bavaria 1923–1924. Bernard & Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3-7637-5108-4 .
  • Munich, Bohemia and the Bavarian Freikorps movement. In: Journal for Bavarian State History , Volume 38, 1975, pp. 749-759 ( digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Bieber: Early history of the NSDAP: The dictatorship of the petty bourgeoisie . In: Die Zeit , No. 29/1972
personal data
SURNAME Gordon, Harold J. Junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gordon, Harold Jackson junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1919
DATE OF DEATH July 1980