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Hans Rothfels

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Birthplace: Kassel, Kassel, Hesse, Germany
Death: June 22, 1976 (85)
Tübingen, Tübingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Immediate Family:

Son of Max Rothfels and Clara Rothfels
Husband of Hildegard Rothfels and Adelaide Ada Rothfels
Father of Klaus Rothfels; Ursula Königsberg and John Hans-Jürgen Rothfels
Brother of Kurt Rothfels; Irmgard Rothfels and Gertrud Rothfels

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About Hans Rothfels

The famous, and ultra-conservative, German historian. Taught at the University of Königsberg during Weimar Germany. He and his wife converted to Lutheranism in 1910; they both were originally Jewish. He reluctantly emigrated to the UK in 1938, eventually got a job at the University of Chicago, and came back to Germany in 1951 to teach in Tübingen. His interpretation of the Nazism and the Holocaust painted Germans in a very positive light.

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Hans Rothfels's Timeline

1891
April 12, 1891
Kassel, Kassel, Hesse, Germany
1919
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1921
1976
June 22, 1976
Age 85
Tübingen, Tübingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany