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Born August 11, 1929 • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Died March 14, 2016 (aged 86) • Hamden • Connecticut
Notable Works “Criticism in the Wilderness” • “The Fate of Reading” • “The Unmediated Vision”
Subjects Of Study Holocaust
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Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
Portrait of Adolf Hitler in a collared shirt and tie, facing forward with a serious expression, circa 1933.
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
German political leader and convicted war criminal
Santayana
George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson
American writer
Adolf Eichmann listening to an Israeli court's verdict
Adolf Eichmann
German military official
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi leader
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich
German Nazi official
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
“Witch of Buchenwald”
Ilse Koch
German war criminal
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
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Karl Otto Koch
German Nazi commandant
Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861
William Gilmore Simms
American novelist

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