Author: Hugh Trevor-Roper

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (born Jan. 15, 1914, Glanton, UK; died Jan. 26, 2003) was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Trevor-Roper was a polemicist and essayist on a range of historical topics, but particularly England in the 16th and 17th centuries and Third-Reich Germany.

British Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper On the Gerstein Confessions, the Roques Thesis, and the Gas Chamber Question
By Hugh Trevor-Roper ∙ July 1, 1993

While serving as a British army intelligence officer during the Second World War, Hugh-Trevor Roper earned a reputation as a leading expert on the German military intelligence service. At the end of the war, he was called upon to investigate the many stories then circulating about Hitler’s fate. The results of his inquiry, which he…

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