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Feuchtwanger was born in Munich. His family is Jewish. Feuchtwanger was 14 when the Gestapo arrested his father on 10 Novemberpart of the coordinated pogrom known as Kristallnachtwhich included the detentions of 30, Jews in Germany and Austria, the deaths of 91, and the widespread ransacking of Jewish-owned stores and synagogues. Edgar's father Ludwig was then imprisoned at the Dachau concentration campand year-old Edgar's sense of security crumbled.

Edgar Feuchtwanger

German-British historian

Edgar Joseph FeuchtwangerOBE (born 28 September ) is a German-British historian.

Life and work

Feuchtwanger was born in Munich. He is the son of Erna Rosina (née Rheinstrom) and lawyer, lecturer, and author Ludwig Feuchtwanger, and a nephew of novelist and playwright Lion Feuchtwanger, who was a vocal critic of Hitler and the Nazis.

His family is Jewish.[1] As a child, he lived with his family in Munich near the private residence of Adolf Hitler on Grillparzer Strasse.[2] From to , he attended the Maximiliansgymnasium[3] in his hometown.

Very minuscule changed for a young Jewish boy, Edgar Feuchtwanger, when Hitler moved into his street in an affluent Munich suburb - until the night of 9 Novemberwhen the onslaught against German Jews began in earnest. More than eight decades have gone by, but Feuchtwanger can still recall the first time he caught sight of the unmistakable figure of Adolf Hitler. It was the early s when the eight-year-old, out for a walk with his nanny, saw the Nazi leader, dressed in his emblematic belted mackintosh and Trilby hat, coming out of a large second-storey apartment. A few people stopped and shouted "Heil Hitler".

Feuchtwanger was 14 when the Gestapo arrested his father on 10 November , part of the coordinated pogrom known as Kristallnacht, which included the detentions of 30, Jews in Germany and Austria, the deaths of 91, and the widespread ransacking of Jewish-owned stores and synagogues.

Edgar's father Ludwig was then imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp, and year-old Edgar's sense of security crumbled.[4]

When his father was released six weeks later, the family considered relocation options. They dismissed Palestine and Prague[5] and ultimately managed to obtain entry visas to Britain, and in February , Edgar boarded a train bound for London.

His father accompanied him as far as the Dutch border, and then returned to Germany to finish arrangements for him and his wife to follow. In May of that year, the family was re-united in England.

Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a juvenile Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor.

From to , Edgar studied at Magdalene College in Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in From , he taught history at University of Southampton,[6] until he retired in In , he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.[7]

In , Feuchtwanger co-authored a guide with French journalist Bertil Scali describing his childhood brushes with Hitler entitled Hitler, mon voisin: Souvenirs d'un enfant juif[8] it was published in English in the US as Hitler, My Neighbor in [9] Feuchtwanger has also published an autobiography depicting his experiences during the "Third Reich" and the post-war years, entitled I Was Hitler's Neighbour,[10] in

Feuchtwanger was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Year Honours for services to Anglo-German understanding and history.[11]

Published works

  • Disraeli, Democracy and the Tory Party.

    Oxford University Press,

  • Prussia: Myth and Reality. Oswald Wolff Limited,
  • Upheaval and Continuity: A Century of German History. London: Wolf,
  • Gladstone. Macmillan,
  • The Soviet Union and the Third World.

    Macmillan, (with Peter Nailor).

  • Democracy and Empire: Britain, –.

    Edgar Feuchtwanger Bore Witness, Horribly Close to Hitler: At the age of 87, Edgar shares his extraordinary story for the first period in this fascinating documentary. Returning to Munich to retrace the childhood he left behind, Edgar chronicles his pre-war experience in the provincial town that housed one of the most merciless and cruel men in history.

    Edward Arnold,

  • From Weimar to Hitler: Germany, . Palgrave Macmillan (2nd Revised edition, ) ISBN&#;
  • Disraeli. Bloomsbury USA,
  • Imperial Germany . Routledge,
  • Bismarck.

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    Routledge, Second edition: Routledge,

  • Albert and Victoria. Hambledon Continuum,
  • Hitler, mon voisin: Souvenirs d'un enfant juif (with Bertil Scali). Éditions Michel Lafon, (in French).
  • Hitler, My Neighbor (with Bertil Scali).

    New York: Other Press,

  • Kinderbriefe aus dem Exil, Edgar Feuchtwanger in England (with Antonia Cox, ed. Anja Tuckermann). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot,

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