Heiden, Konrad (1944) | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Name: Heiden, Konrad (1944)

Historical Note: Konrad Heiden (1901 --1966) was a Jewish journalist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. He graduated from the Maximilian University of Munich in 1923. His father was a union orgnizer, while his mother had a Jewish background. Konrad Heiden became a member of the Social Democratic Party. Heiden was one of the first critical observer of the rise of National Socialism. He wrote for a number of German newspapers. In 1933, he went into exile, first to Saarland, then to Switzerland, then to France and finally to the United States. He published the following monographs, History of National Socialism (Berlin, 1932); Birth of the Third Reich (Zuerich, 1934); Hitler: A Biography (Zuerich, 1936 -- 1937); The New Inquisition (New York, 1939); Der Fuehrer -- Hitler's Rise to Power (Boston, 1944)