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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: German magazine editors, German newspaper editors, German literature, Ludwig Bamberger, Joachim Fest, Wolfgang Stock, Robert Siewert, Kurt Dahlmann, Theo Breuer, Josef Joffe, Carl Muth, Stefan Klein, Willi Eichler, Frank Schirrmacher, Georg Gradnauer, Stefan Aust, Wilhelm Weiss, Paul Alfred Kleinert, Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, Franz Blei, Guido Gorres, Paul Schiemann, Friedrich Westmeyer, Karl Nikolas Fraas, Heiko Engelkes, Ernst Hiemer, Richard Tungel, Georg Hirth, Siegfried August Mahlmann, Otto Julius Bierbaum, Theo Sommer, Walter Abendroth, Hans von Wolzogen, Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach, Ulla Jelpke, Peter Kloeppel, Bas Kast, Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer, Alexander Kapp, Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann, Dieter Stein, August Lewald, Maximilian Bern, Camille Recht. Excerpt: Joachim Clemens Fest (8 December 1926-11 September 2006) was a German historian, journalist, critic and editor, best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including an important biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer and the German Resistance. He was a leading figure in the debate among German historians about the Nazi period. Fest was born in Berlin, the son of Johannes Fest, a conservative Roman Catholic and strongly anti-Nazi schoolteacher who was dismissed from his position when the Nazis came to power in 1933. In 1936, when Fest turned ten, his family refused to make him join the Hitler Youth, a step which could have had serious consequences, although membership did not become compulsory until 1939. As it was, Fest was expelled from his school, and then went to a Catholic boarding school in Freiburg im Breisgau in Baden: here he was able to avoid Hitler Youth service until he was 18. The fact that his father, an "ordinary German," had understood the nature of the Nazi regime, and had resisted it, coloure...
