Gerhard Weinberg

Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg ( born January 1, 1928 in Hannover) is an American historian. His works focus on the Second World War.

Life

1938 emigrated vineyard family due to the Nazi persecution of the Jews to the UK and 1941 in the United States in the state of New York. After use, 1946-1947 at the U.S. Army during the occupation in Japan followed his academic training. In 1948, he received the N. Y. State College for Teachers Bachelor. The studies took him to the University of Chicago, where he in 1949 and 1951, the Master Ph.D. further obtained.

1951-1954 was the vineyard research associate at the Columbia University. He also taught at the University of Chicago, at the University of Kentucky (1957-1959) and at the University of Michigan (1959-1974), before 1974, he was appointed to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor of history. 1996 Vineyard became Professor Emeritus.

Weinberg discovered Hitler's so-called " Second Book ," which he published in 1961.

Awards

Weinberg's publications have been awarded the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association, the Halverson Award of the Western Association for German Studies, the Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History (1995 ) and the Herbert Hoover Book Award (1994). In 2009 he was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.

Writings (selection )

• Germany and the Soviet Union, 1939-1941, Leiden: EJ Brill, 1954.
• Hitler's second book. A document from the year 1928. Introduced and annotated by Gerhard L. Weinberg, German publishing house, Stuttgart 1961.
• The Foreign Policy of Hitler 's Germany, 2 vols, University of Chicago Press, 1970 /80. New edition in one volume under the title: Hitler 's Foreign Policy 1933-1939. The Road to World War II, Enigma Books, New York 2005, ISBN 978-1-929631-91-9.
• (Ed.), Transformation of a Continent: Europe in the Twentieth Century. Minneapolis, Minn.:. Burgess Pub. Co., 1975 ISBN 0-8087-2332-4.
• World in the Balance: Behind the Scenes of World War II, Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, ISBN 0-87451-216-6 1981.
• A world in arms. The global history of World War II. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1995.
• Germany, Hitler, and World War II Essays in Modern German and World History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 ISBN 0-521-47407-8.
• Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-521-85254-4.