Richard Grunberger
Richard Grunberger ( born March 7, 1924 in Vienna, † 15 February 2005) was a British historian who mainly dealt with issues relating to National Socialism.
Grunberger was born in Austria to Jewish parents. After the connection of Austria in 1938, he was sent on a Kindertransport train to England and placed in a camp in Lowestoft until he could live together again in London with his parents. The parents worked there as a tailor and Grunberger also took this profession. In his early days in the UK, he was a member of a communist youth group Young Austria, later he took a social-democratic setting.
At the same time formed Grunberger continuing and completed a degree in History at Birkbeck College, University of London. A scholarship enabled him to further studies at King's College in London. In studies in the Wiener Library in London, he noted that there were few publications on the development of National Socialism at the time. This gave him the impetus to our own studies, which he in his book A Social History of the Third Reich (1971, dt 1972: The Twelve -Year Reich: the German daily life under Hitler ) published.