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Sebastian Haffner was a German journalist who fled the National Socialists into exile in England in 1938. After his return to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1954, he was considered a respected journalist. Haffners, among others, attracted attention History of a Germanwhich he began writing in 1939, but was only published posthumously. The very personal notes refute a narrative that has long been all too popular: that one could not have known at the beginning where the path of fascism would actually lead. The text describes the circumstances so clearly and honestly that some critics incredulously accused it that it could not possibly have been written so early.
