Robert GL Waite

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Robert George Leeson Waite (born February 18, 1919 in Cartwright , Manitoba , † October 4, 1999 in Glastonbury , Connecticut ) was a Canadian-American historian.

Waite, son of a pastor, attended Macalester College in St. Paul , Minnesota , where he graduated in 1941. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the United States Army and then studied history at Harvard University . In 1949 he received his doctorate there with a thesis on the history of the Freikorps in Germany after the First World War ( The German Free Corps movement 1918–1923 ), which was also published in book form in 1952 under the title Vanguard of Nazism .

After receiving his doctorate, Waite moved to Williams College in Williamstown , Massachusetts . There he received a professorship ( Brown Professor of History ) and taught and researched until his retirement in 1988, interrupted by a research stay in Germany funded in 1953 with the help of a research grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation .

His most influential (and controversial) work was a psychological study by Adolf Hitler , published in 1977 under the title The Psychopathic God , in which Hitler's missing left testicle (according to an alleged Soviet autopsy report first published in a book by Lev Besymensky in 1968 ) played an important role.

Works

  • Vanguard of Nazism. The Free Corps Movement in Postwar Germany 1918–1923 . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1952. (= Harvard Historical Studies, Volume 60)
  • (Ed.) Hitler and Nazi Germany . Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1965.
  • The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler . Basic Books, New York 1977. ISBN 0-465-06743-3
  • Hitler in World War II: Irrationality, Conjecture, Chance, Choice and Imagination . Lecture, March 19, 1981, Phi Alpha Theta, SUNY.
  • Kaiser and Führer. A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1998. ISBN 0-8020-4185-X
  • Hitler, The Kaiser, and Me: An Academic's Procession . RGL Waite, Williamstown MA 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.westmanitoba.com/pioneers/deaths_V-Z.htm
  2. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Robert George Leeson Waite. In: gf.org. Retrieved February 12, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Waite, Robert GL
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waite, Robert George Leeson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Cartwright , Manitoba
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1999
Place of death Glastonbury , Connecticut