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Hans Mommsen (5 November 1930 – 5 November 2015) was a German historian, known for his studies in German social history, for his functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich, and especially for arguing that Adolf Hitler was a weak dictator.
Hans Mommsen was one of the foremost authorities on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, though his views were not without controversy. He saw the Final Solution as a result of what he...
A tribute to the German historian Hans Mommsen, a prominent representative of the functionalist school in Holocaust research. The article reviews his main contributions to the study of Nazism, the Final Solution, and resistance to Nazism.
Hans Mommsen (* 5. November 1930 in Marburg; † 5. November 2015 in Tutzing [1]) war ein deutscher Historiker. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Zeithistoriker nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.
18 de may. de 2017 · When Hans Mommsen died on 5 November 2015, at the age of eighty-five, he left a huge legacy, having grappled with many of the most intractable issues of modern German history, in particular Nazism.
18 de nov. de 2015 · Hans Mommsen, considered the leading German historian of the Third Reich, whose work encompassed the origins of the Holocaust as well as a widely publicized report documenting Volkswagen’s...
Dan S. White evaluates Mommsen's collection of essays on the history of Germany from 1918 to 1945. He praises Mommsen's critical and iconoclastic views, but criticizes his lack of attention to social forces and his emphasis on Hitler's propaganda.
