Hans Herlin

Hans Herlin ( born December 24, 1925 in city wage, † December 20, 1994 in Autun ( Burgundy, France) ) was a German writer and journalist.

During his military service in World War II Hans Herlin fled in 1940 in Switzerland. After the war he studied German. He was a journalist for the magazine Stern in 1971 and publishing manager in the publishing Fritz Molden. Since 1977 he lived in France, where he died of a heart attack in 1994. His books have been translated into 18 languages, some were used as templates for film productions.

Bibliography (selection)

• Damn Atlantic: fates German U- boat operator. Factual report (1959, 1981)
• The Devil pilot Ernst Udet and the history of his time (1974 )
• Friends ( 1974)
• Commemorations (1975 )
• Day and night stories (1978)
• Which Way the Wind ( 1978)
• The last man of the Dogger Bank. Factual report (1979 )
• The secret powers of the supernatural: Incredible facts (1980 )
• The lovers: the tragic love of Clara Petacci to Benito Mussolini (1980 )
• Satan is on the side of God (1981 ) * The Last Spring in Paris (1983 )
• Solo Run ( 1983)
• Attention world, Here is the crossroads: The plane from Hiroshima ( 1984)
• Grishin ( with John Maxwell Brownjohn, 1987)
• The Last Spring in Paris ( 1988)
• Siberian Transfer (1992 )
• The Survivor. The True Story of the Sinking of the Dogger Bank ( with John Maxwell Brownjohn, 1995)
• The storm surge. North Sea coast and Hamburg in February 1962 (2005)