Heinrich Fraenkel

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Heinrich Fraenkel
Born	(1897-09-28)28 September 1897 Lissa, Poland
Died	1 May 1986(1986-05-01) (aged 88) Ealing, London, United Kingdom
Occupation	Biographer, Hollywood Writer, Political Author, Activist
Genres	Film, Nazi War Crime, Anti-Nazi, Essays

Heinrich Fraenkel (28 September 1897 – May 1986) was an author and Hollywood writer most notable for his biographies of Nazi war criminals published in the 1960s and 1970s.

Biography

Fraenkel was born in Lissa, Poland (then Province of Posen, Germany). He emigrated from Nazi Germany and lived in Britain.

His works include Hess: A Biography (1971, with Roger Manvell). And

The Canaris Conspiracy: The Secret Resistance to Hitler in the German Army, by Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel, 1st Edition (1972).

Under the pseudonyme Assiac, Fraenkel edited a chess column in the New Statesman and published several chess books, among them Adventures in Chess (1951, the American edition was published as The Pleasures of Chess).

He died in Ealing, England.

Selected filmography

Menace (1934)

References

University of New Mexico, "Inventory of the Heinrich Fraenkel Papers, 1915-1973", Rocky Mountain Online Archive, 2000, Accessed 20 August 2009

External links

Heinrich Fraenkel at the Internet Movie Database

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 29040362 LCCN: nb2002072952 ISNI: 0000 0003 6853 9486 GND: 11669081X BNF: cb144051822

Persondata
Name	Fraenkel, Heinrich
Alternative names
Short description	author
Date of birth	28 September 1897
Place of birth	Lissa, Poland
Date of death	1 May 1986
Place of death	Ealing, London, United Kingdom

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