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Gerhard Ritter
GERHARD GEORG BERNHARD RITTER (6 April 1888 - 1 July 1967) was a nationalist-conservative German historian and a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925-1956.
Born in Bad Sood...view moreGERHARD GEORG BERNHARD RITTER (6 April 1888 - 1 July 1967) was a nationalist-conservative German historian and a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925-1956.
Born in Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Germany, he studied at the Universities of Munich, Heidelberg, and Leipzig and began teaching in 1912. While studying at Heidelberg, Ritter was a research assistant to the national-liberal historian Hermann Oncken, who was a major influence on Ritter. A Lutheran, he first became well known for his 1925 biography of Martin Luther and hagiographic portrayal of Prussia.
He fought as an infantryman in WWI. A member of the German People’s Party during the Weimar Republic, he was a lifelong monarchist. Following WWII, Ritter worked to restore German nationalism by attempting to separate it from Nazi ideology.
Ritter worked as a professor at Heidelberg University (1918-1923), Hamburg University (1923-1925) and Freiburg University (1925-1956). He was elected as an honorary member of the American Historical Association in 1959.
He died in Freiburg in 1967, aged 79.
SIR BASIL HENRY LIDDELL HART (31 October 1895 - 29 January 1970) was an English soldier, military historian and military theorist. Following WWII, he was a proponent of the West German rearmament and the moral rehabilitation of the German Wehrmacht. As part of these two interconnected initiatives, Liddell Hart significantly contributed to the creation of the Rommel myth. He is the author of a series of histories of major military figures, including Great Captains Unveiled (1927) and Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American (1929), and edited The Rommel Papers (1953). He was made a Knight Bachelor in the Queen’s New Year Honours of 1966. He died in 1970 at the age of 74.view less