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Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock (December 13, 1914 - February 2, 2004), was a British historian, who wrote an influential biography of Adolf Hitler and many other works. December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Bullock was born near Trowbridge in Wiltshire, England, where his father worked as a gardener and a Unitarian preacher. He won a scholarship to Oxford University, where he studied classics and modern history. After graduating in 1938, he worked as a research assistant for Winston Churchill, who was writing his History of the English-Speaking Peoples. During World War II Bullock worked for the European Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. After the war he returned to Oxford as a history fellow at New College. Location within the British Isles Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, England. ...
Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God as opposed to traditional Christian belief in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). ...
The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ...
College name New College of St Mary Collegium Novum Oxoniensis/Collegium Sanctae Mariae Wintoniae Named after Mary, mother of Jesus Established 1379 Sister College Kings College Warden Prof. ...
He was the founding master of St. Catherine's College, a college for undergraduates and graduates, divided between students of the sciences and the arts. He was credited with massive fundraising efforts to develop the college. Later he was the first full-time Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. Full name St Catherines College Motto Nova et Vetera The New and the Old Named after Previous names St. ...
In 1952 Bullock published Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, the first comprehensive biography of Hitler, which he based on the transcripts of the Nuremberg Trials. This book dominated Hitler scholarship for many years. The book characterised Hitler as an opportunistic "power politician". In Bullock's opinion, Hitler was an “mountebank”, an opportunistic adventurer devoid of principles, beliefs or scruples whose actions throughout his career were motivated only by a lust for power. Bullock's views led to a debate with Hugh Trevor-Roper in the 1950s who argued that Hitler did possess beliefs, albeit repulsive ones and that Hitler's actions were motivated by them. Bullock's Guardian obituary commented that "Bullock's famous maxim 'Hitler was jobbed into power by backstairs intrigue' has stood the test of time."[1] 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Süddeutsche Zeitung announces The Verdict in Nuremberg. ...
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (January 15, 1914 - January 26, 2003) was a notable historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany, who became infamous for authenticating the Hitler Diaries, which were later proved to be a hoax. ...
When reviewing "Hitler: A Study in Tyranny" in The Times in 1991, John Campbell wrote "Although written so soon after the end of the war and despite a steady flow of fresh evidence and reinterpretation, it has not been surpassed in nearly 40 years: an astonishing achievement." The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ...
1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Later, Bullock to some extent changed his mind about Hitler. His later works show Hitler as much more of an ideologue, who pursued the ideas expressed in Mein Kampf (and elsewhere) despite their consequences. This has become a widely accepted view of Hitler, particularly in relation to the Holocaust. Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ...
Among Bullock's other works were The Humanist Tradition in the West (1985), and The Life and Times of Ernest Bevin, a three-volume biography of British Labour Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, who had a similar background to Bullock. He was also editor of The Harper Dictionary of Modern Thought (1977), a project he suggested to the publisher when he found he could not define the word "hermeneutics". The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...
Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 - 14 April 1951) was a British labour leader, politician, and statesman, born in the small village of Winsford in Somerset, England. ...
Hermeneutics may be described as the development and study of theories of the interpretation and understanding of texts. ...
In the mid-70s Bullock used his committee skills to produce a report which proved to be influential in the classroom, about reading and the teaching of English A Language for Life was published in 1975[1].
Bullock was a life-long supporter of Labour and his moderate socialist views influenced his historical works. In the 1970s he served on a commission appointed by a Labour government on worker participation in company management. The resulting report received some support but also some trade union opposition. It was never implemented. Workers control is the management of factories and other enterprises by the people who work there. ...
The Bullock Report was a report proposing for a form of worker participation or workers control, named for Alan Bullock. ...
Late in his life Bullock published Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (1991), a massive work which compared them and also the lives of Bullock's generation. He showed how Hitler and Stalin's careers to some extent fed off each other.
American historian Ronald Spector, writing in The Washington Post, praised Bullock's ability to write about the development of Nazism and Soviet Communism without either generalization or excruciating detail. "The writing is invariably interesting and informed and there are new insights and cogent analysis in every chapter," he wrote. The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. ...
Bullock was knighted in 1972, becoming Sir Alan Bullock and in 1976 was made a life peer as Baron Bullock, of Leafield in the County of Oxfordshire. His writings always appeared under the name "Alan Bullock." 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...
1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ...
Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ...
See also
Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf. ...
Reference - *Rosenbaum, Ron Explaining Hitler : the search for the origins of his evil New York : Random House, 1998 ISBN 0679431519. Ron Rosenbaum (born on November 27, 1946, New York, New York) is an American journalist and author. ...
Endnotes - ^ a b Frankland, Mark. Lord Bullock of Leafield, The Guardian. 3 February 2004.
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