Richard Grunberger

Richard Grunberger (born March 7, 1924 in Vienna ; † February 15, 2005 ) was a British historian who mainly dealt with topics relating to National Socialism .

Grunberger was born in Austria to Jewish parents. After Austria's annexation in 1938, he was brought to England by train on a children's transport and housed in a camp in Lowestoft until he was able to live together with his parents in London again. The parents worked there as a tailor and Grunberger also took up this profession. In his early days in Great Britain he was a member of a communist youth group Young Austria , later he took a social democratic attitude.

At the same time formed Grunberger continued and graduated in history at Birkbeck College of the University of London from. A scholarship enabled him to study further at King's College in London. During studies in the Wiener Library in London he found that there were only a few publications about the development of National Socialism at the time. This gave him the impetus for his own studies, which he published in his book A Social History of the Third Reich (1971, German 1972: The twelve years of the Reich: the German everyday life under Hitler ).

Works

• 1970: Hitler's SS. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, ISBN 0-297-00210-4 .
• 1971: A Social History of the Third Reich . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, ISBN 0-297-00294-5 .
  • 1972: German: The twelve-year Reich. Everyday life in Germany under Hitler . Molden, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-217-00428-0 .
• 1973: Red Rising in Bavaria. Arthur Barker Ltd., London, ISBN 0-213-16420-5 .
• 1964: Germany 1918–1954 . Dufour Editions, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Grunberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary in The Guardian