Heinrich August Winkler

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Heinrich August Winkler
Winkler in 2014
Born (1938-12-19) 19 December 1938 (age 85)
NationalityGerman
OccupationHistorian

Heinrich August Winkler (born 19 December 1938 in Königsberg) is a German historian.

With his mother he joined the

Humboldt University Berlin. He has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) since 1962, and has ties to numerous prominent politicians within that party, including former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. He is the author of a book detailing a comprehensive political history of the Weimar Republic
, among others.

During the Historikerstreit, Winkler was a leading critic of Ernst Nolte.[1]

Selected bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ Winkler, Heinrich August. "Eternally in the Shadow of Hitler?" In Ernst Piper, Forever In The Shadow of Hitler? Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1993, pp. 171–176

Further reading

  • Berger, Stefan. "Rising Like a Phoenix… The Renaissance of National History Writing in Germany and Britain Since the 1980s." In: Berger, Stefan; Lorenz, Chris (2015). Nationalizing the past : historians as nation builders in modern Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 426–451.

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