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Walter Laqueur

Walter Laqueur was head of the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library in London and concurrently university professor at Georgetown University.

  • L-R: Ernst Nolte, Fritz Stern, Richard Pipes, Peter Gay, and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
    L-R: Ernst Nolte, Fritz Stern, Richard Pipes, Peter Gay, and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
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    The Generation That Shaped Our Understanding of the 20th Century Is Gone

    The scholars, historians, and political advisers who shaped the West’s understanding of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and the Islamist Middle East, make way now for—what?

    byWalter Laqueur
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    Disraelia

    A counterfactual history, 1848-2008

    byWalter Laqueur
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    Have ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ Outlived Their Meaning?

    And are we now on the eve of the emergence of a new, Fifth International?

    byWalter Laqueur
  • The Riegner Telegram, Samuel Silverman to Stephen S. Wise, London, England, August 29, 1942.
    The Riegner Telegram, Samuel Silverman to Stephen S. Wise, London, England, August 29, 1942.
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    The Riegner Cable, and the Knowing Failure of the West To Act During the Shoah

    When and how did authentic information about the Holocaust first become known?

    byWalter Laqueur
  • Cartoon depicting Max von Oppenheim by Leonard Raven-Hill, Punch, January 25, 1911.
    Cartoon depicting Max von Oppenheim by Leonard Raven-Hill, Punch, January 25, 1911.
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    Hitler’s Jews: Max Von Oppenheim and the Myth of German Jewish Guilt

    New biographies shed light on the cohort of Germans of Jewish descent who historians have portrayed as having served the Nazis

    byWalter Laqueur
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