by Sebastian Haffner · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423333431
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«Historia de un alemán» (Memorias 1914-1933) is the autobiography of Sebastian Haffner, published by Ediciones Destino in paperback (264 pages, in Spanish).
Youth autobiography in which Sebastian Haffner recalls his trajectory from the nationalist exaltation of 1914 to his rejection of Nazism in 1933. Written in 1939 and recovered after the author's death, the book combines personal memory and historical chronicle to explain the social discontent that allowed Hitler's triumph, with special attention to the emotions and contradictions of the German people.
Belongs to the Áncora & Delfín collection, volume 939. Originally published in German as «Geschichte eines Deutschen».
For readers interested in the history of Germany, autobiographical memory, and the social processes that led to the rise of Nazism.
Raimund Pretzel, better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and historian. As an émigré in Britain during World War II, Haffner argued that accommodation was not only impossible with Adolf Hitler but also impossible with the German Reich with which Hitler had gambled. Peace could be secured only by rolling back history and restoring Germany to a network of smaller states. As a journalist in West Germany, Haffner's independence and penchant for provocation precipitated breaks with editors both liberal and conservative. His intervention in the Spiegel affair of 1962, and his contributions to the anti-fascist rhetoric of the student New Left, sharply raised his profile.
