Walter Laqueur

Walter Laqueur
Born(1921-05-26)26 May 1921
Breslau, Lower Silesia, Weimar Republic
Died30 September 2018(2018-09-30) (aged 97)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
CitizenshipUnited States
Occupations
  • Historian
  • political commentator
AwardsGuggenheim Memorial Foundation (1970)
Inter Nationes (1984)
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1985)
Ph.D. h.c. mult.

Walter Ze'ev Laqueur (26 May 1921 – 30 September 2018) was a German-born American historian, journalist, political commentator, and Holocaust survivor. He was an influential scholar on the subjects of terrorism and political violence.

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