Heinrich Fraenkel (28 September 1897 – May 1986) was a writer and Hollywood screenwriter best known for his biographies of Nazi war criminals published in the 1960s and 1970s.
Biography
Fraenkel was born in
Lissa,
Poland
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(then
Province of Posen, Germany), into a
Jewish
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family.
William D. Rubinstein
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, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein
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She graduated with a BA(Hons) in economics, history and politics at Keele Universi ...
, ''The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History'', Palgrave Macmillan (2011), p. 288 He emigrated from
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
and lived in Britain.
His works include:
* ''Göring'' (1962, with
).
* ''
Hess: A Biography'' (1971, with
).
* ''The Canaris Conspiracy: The Secret Resistance to Hitler in the German Army'', by
, Heinrich Fraenkel, 1st Edition (1972).
Under the
pseudonym
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"Assiac", Fraenkel edited a chess column in the ''
New Statesman
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'' and published several chess books, among them ''Adventures in Chess'' (1951, the American edition was published as ''The Pleasures of Chess'', and on pp. 183–184 of that book, Fraenkel explained that "Assiac" is "
Caïssa
Caïssa ( a:isa is a fictional (anachronistic) Thracian dryad portrayed as the goddess of chess. She was first mentioned during the Renaissance by Italian poet Hieronymus Vida.
Vida's poem
Caïssa originated in a 658-line poem called ''Scacch ...
", the goddess of chess, spelled backwards).
He died in
Ealing, England.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Dance Goes On'' (1930)
* ''
The Sacred Flame'' (1931)
* ''
Menace'' (1934)
* ''
Youthful Folly
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'' (1934)
References
External links
*
Heinrich Fraenkel Papers (MSS 319) Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University of New Mexico Libraries.
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1897 births
1986 deaths
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
German biographers
Male biographers
British chess writers
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
German male non-fiction writers
People from Leszno
British Jewish writers
Historians of World War II
British biographers
British male screenwriters
20th-century biographers
20th-century British screenwriters
German screenwriters
German male screenwriters