Raul Hilberg
Raul Hilberg | |
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| Born | June 2, 1926 |
| Died | August 4, 2007 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | American |
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| Institutions | University of Vermont |
| Notable works | The Destruction of the European Jews (1961) |
Raul Hilberg (June 2, 1926 – August 4, 2007) was a Jewish Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the preeminent scholar on the Holocaust. Christopher R. Browning has called him the founding father of Holocaust studies and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as seminal for research into the Nazi Final Solution.