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Hans Mommsen
Hans Mommsen (5 November 1930 – 5 November 2015) was a Germanhistorian, known for his studies in German social history, for his functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich, and especially for arguing that Adolf Hitler was a weak dictator. Descended from Nobel Prize-winning historian Theodor Mommsen, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.