by Sebastian Haffner · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423338047
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«Historia de un alemán» is the memoir by German writer Sebastian Haffner, published by Booket in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
Sebastian Haffner recalls his childhood and youth in Germany between 1914 and 1933, through World War I, the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism. The book combines personal experience with observation of the social climate, and seeks to explain how the discontent of German society facilitated Hitler's rise to power.
Written in 1939 and found after Sebastian Haffner's death in 1999, the book bears the original title Geschichte eines Deutschen and belongs to the Divulgación collection.
A read for those interested in the history of Germany, the Weimar Republic and autobiographical testimonies.
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.
