Nuits sanglantes en Allemagne. Konrad Heiden. SORLOT, 1939. First Edition, very scarce work. Special edition of the Publisher. Rustic, dirt stain on the cover, tired spine, aged pages. Overall book in good condition.

• Konrad Heiden; he was an influential Jewish journalist and historian from the Weimar Republic. He is best known for the influential early biographies of Adolf Hitler. He was born in Munich, Germany, on August 7, 1901, and graduated from the University of Munich in 1923. His father was a trade unionist, while his mother was of Jewish origin. In college, he organized a republican and democratic student body and became a member of the Social Democratic Party. Heiden was one of the first critical observers of National Socialism, in Germany after attending a party meeting in 1920. He worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung and the Zeitung Vossischen. He went into exile, first in the Saarland, then in Switzerland, then in France and finally in the United States. After the occupation of France in 1940, Heiden managed to escape to the United States via Lisbon. Heiden died in New York on June 18, 1966, having resided in the United States for 26 years after fleeing Germany.