Konrad Heiden

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Konrad Heiden (7 August 1901 — 18 June 1966) was an influential journalist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi eras, most noted for his biographies of German dictator Adolf Hitler. Often times, he wrote under the pseudonym "Klaus Bredow".

Heiden was born in Munich, Germany, on 7 August 1901, and became a journalist at the age of 20 years old. He died in New York City, in the United States on 18 June 1966, having resided in the US for 26 years after fleeing from Germany. Heiden was a Social Democrat.

[edit] Selected works

• Der Führer – Hitler's Rise to Power (Boston, 1944)
• Hitler: A Biography (Zürich, appeared in two volumes, 1936-1937)
• Birth of the Third Reich (Zürich, 1934)
• History of National Socialism (Berlin, 1932)