by Sebastian Haffner · Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783421054098
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Story of a German: Memories 1914-1933 is an autobiographical work by the German journalist and writer Sebastian Haffner, published in 2000. In it, Haffner recounts his experiences and reflections on the period between the outbreak of the First World War and the rise to power of Nazism in Germany. The book offers a personal and critical view of the historical and social events that marked that era, as well as an analysis of the mentality and behavior of German society in the face of the rise of National Socialism.
Raimund Pretzel, better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and historian. As an émigré in Britain during World War II, Haffner argued that accommodation was not only impossible with Adolf Hitler but also impossible with the German Reich with which Hitler had gambled. Peace could be secured only by rolling back history and restoring Germany to a network of smaller states. As a journalist in West Germany, Haffner's independence and penchant for provocation precipitated breaks with editors both liberal and conservative. His intervention in the Spiegel affair of 1962, and his contributions to the anti-fascist rhetoric of the student New Left, sharply raised his profile.
