Name Heinrich Fraenkel | Role Author | |
Occupation Biographer, Hollywood writer, political author, activist Genre Film, Nazi war crime, anti-Nazi, essays Movies Olympia, Youthful Folly, Die heilige Flamme, Der Tanz geht weiter Books Doctor Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Goering: The Rise and Fall o, Delights Of Chess, The German People V Similar People William Dieterle, Berthold Viertel, Miles Mander, Jacques Feyder, Leo Birinski | ||
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
Fraenkel was born in Lissa, Poland (then Province of Posen, Germany). He emigrated from Nazi Germany and lived in Britain.
His works include:
Under the pseudonym "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, and on pp. 183-184 of that book, Fraenkel explained that "Assiac" is "Caïssa", the goddess of chess, spelled backwards).
He died in Ealing, England.
Selected filmography
References
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