William Sheridan Allen

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William Sheridan Allen (born October 5, 1932 in Evanston , Illinois , † March 14, 2013 in Buffalo , New York) was an American historian and university professor .

Life

William Sheridan Allen studied at the University of Michigan , the University of Connecticut and the University of Minnesota as well as in Germany at the Free University of Berlin and at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . From 1970 to 2001 he taught as Professor of German History at the State University of New York at Buffalo .

In addition to his academic work, Allen was politically active throughout his life - among other things, he took part in campaigns for nuclear disarmament and against the Vietnam War. In 1972 he supported George McGovern's candidacy for President of the United States.

To his works

We didn't mean that ( The Nazi Seizure of Power. The Experience of a Single German Town, 1930-1935 ) is the first published work of all. It was published in ten editions between 1965 and 2006, and it has been translated into four languages. In terms of content, the book deals with the example of Northeim in Lower Saxony - but in the book under the pseudonym "Thalburg" - the political career of a small German town during the last years of the Weimar Republic and the first years of the Third Reich . It tries to find an answer to the question of how a civilized democracy could be driven into a totalitarian ideology. A second expanded edition was published in English in 1984, but was not translated into German.

Allen also wrote The Infancy of Nazism , in which he describes the effects of Nazi propaganda .

Fonts

  • 1965: The Nazi Seizure of Power. The Experience of a Single German Town, 1930-1935 , Chicago: Quadrangle Books.
  • 1966: We didn't want that. The National Socialist seizure of power in a small town 1930-1935. Translated by the author from the American by Jutta u. Theodor Knust , Gütersloh: Poppy.
  • 1968: Vox Graeca. A Guide to the Pronunciation of Classical Greek , Cambridge: University Press.
  • 1976: The Infancy of Nazism: The Memoirs of Ex-Gauleiter Albert Krebs, 1923-1933 , New York: New Viewpoints.
  • 1984: The Nazi Seizure of Power. The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945 , revised edition, F. Watts.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in Buffalo News, March 19, 2013 .
  2. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/1966/44/eine-stadt-verfaellt-hitler
  3. ↑ Andrea Brandt: "Everyone wanted it" , one day , January 28, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Allen, William Sheridan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allen, William S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Evanston , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2013
Place of death Buffalo , New York