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Andreas Fritz Hillgruber (18 January 1925 – 8 May 1989) was a conservative German historian who was influential as a military and diplomatic historian who played a leading role in the Historikerstreit of the 1980s.
May 26, 1989 · Andreas Hillgruber, a controversial German historian and catalyst of acrimonious debate on the historical perspective of the Holocaust, died this month after a long illness, Cologne University...
Although disagreement had been building for years, the dispute began innocently enough with the publication of two lectures by the Cologne historian Andreas Hillgruber on "the destruction of the German Empire and the end of European Jews."
Andreas Hillgruber's historical inquiries center on the origins of the two world wars, and to this end he retraces his steps to the founding of the Reich, an event which Benjamin Disraeli deemed of greater import
For Andreas Hillgruber, there was a fundamental connection in Hitler's mind between the acquisition of lebensraum through the invasion of Russia and a solution to the Jewish question through systematic mass murder.
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Historians on the Eastern Front: Andreas Hillgruber and Germany’s Tragedy | Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation | Oxford Academic. Chapter.
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May 25, 1989 · Prof. Andreas Hillgruber, a prominent West German historian who was involved in a controversy bearing on the ''final solution,'' died May 8 in a hospital in Cologne after a long illness, his...
