Heinrich Fraenkel
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| Heinrich Fraenkel | |
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| Born | 28 September 1897 Lissa, Poland |
| Died | 1 May 1986 (aged 88) Ealing, London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Biographer, Hollywood Writer, Political Author, Activist |
| Genres | Film, Nazi War Crime, Anti-Nazi, Essays |
Heinrich Fraenkel (28 September 1897 – May 1986) was an author and Hollywood writer most notable for his biographies of Nazi war criminals published in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Biography [edit]
Fraenkel was born in Lissa, Poland (then Province of Posen, Germany). He emigrated from Nazi Germany and lived in Britain.
His works include Hess: A Biography (1971, with Roger Manvell).
Under the pseudonyme Assiac, Fraenkel edited a chess column in the New Statesman and published several chess books, among them Adventures in Chess (1951, the American edition was published as The Pleasures of Chess).
Selected filmography [edit]
- Menace (1934)
References [edit]
- [1] University of New Mexico, "Inventory of the Heinrich Fraenkel Papers, 1915-1973", Rocky Mountain Online Archive, 2000, Accessed 20 August 2009
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