Hermann Rauschning
Hermann Adolf Reinhold Rauschning (b. 7 August 1887 in Thorn, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire; d. 8 February 1982 in Portland, Oregon, USA) was a German Conservative Revolutionary, academic and politician who briefly joined the NSDAP before a falling out. He emigrated from Germany, eventually moving to the United States.
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Life
In 1934, after the Night of the Long Knives, he renounced his party membership and defected to the United States where he denounced National Socialism. Rauschning is chiefly known for his book Gespräche mit Hitler (Conversations with Hitler), US title Voice of Destruction, UK title Hitler Speaks, in which he claimed to have had many meetings and conversations with Hitler. It has been proven by to be fraudulent.
Many false quotations involving Hitler are from the book or derived from it.[1] He also authored Revolution of Nihilism. Rauschning was a star witness for the prosecution in the Great Sedition Trial.[2]
See also
External links
- Swiss Historian Exposes Anti-Hitler Rauschning Memoir as Fraudulent
- Rauschning's Phony 'Conversations With Hitler': An Update
- Fake Nazi Quotations
References
- ↑ Fake Nazi Quotations http://www.ihr.org/other/weber2011fakequotations.html
- ↑ A Trial on Trial, by Lawrence Dennis and Miximillian St.George, page 331
