Ralf Georg Reuth (born 4 June 1952 in

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) is a German journalist and historian.Enrico Syring: ''Review: Ralf Georg Reuth, Hitler. Eine politische Biographie''. In: ''

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'' 62 (2003), p. 596. Reuth studied with

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and wrote his Ph.D. on the German strategy in the Mediterranean from 1940 to 1942. He published several books dealing with the Nazi era, among them a biography of Joseph Goebbels in 1992 and of

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in 2003. Reuth also edited a multivolume selection from the diaries of Joseph Goebbels, which drew criticism notably from Bernd Sösemann. He also wrote biographies of Erwin Rommel,

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and

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. Reuth's 2004 book ''Rommel: Das Ende einer Legende'', dedicated to the topic of the Rommel myth, has started the reevaluation of Rommel's role in history. The book was published in English in 2005 as ''Rommel: The End of a Legend''.

Works

* Reuth, Ralf Georg (1993). ''Goebbels''. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. *

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