Sebastian Huffner
Sebastian Hufner (real name: Raymond Pretzel, 1907-1999) was a German writer, journalist, historian and lawyer. In 1933, when the Nazis took power, he gave up his career as a lawyer, emigrated to France, then to Great Britain. They arrest him there. After spending two years in a British prison, Hufner began a career as a journalist at Die Zeitung, a German-language monthly newspaper for immigrants, and then a correspondent for Britain's The Observer. After the end of the Second World War, Hufner received a British citizen's passport and returned to his homeland in 1954. Sebastian Hafner wrote the book "The Story of a German" in Great Britain in 1939, which was published in 2000, after the author's death. The two dozen books he wrote about different periods and important figures in German history are bestsellers.
