Post by SSHoya on Oct 1, 2018 5:55:50 GMT -5
Walter Laqueur, a German Jew who fled Hitler and became one of the preeminent intellectuals of his generation with seminal books dissecting events that shaped the 20th century as well as his own life, died Sept. 30 at his home in Washington. He was 97.
His wife, Susi Laqueur, confirmed the death and said she did not yet know the cause. Mr. Laqueur, who wrote about Nazi Europe, the Soviet Union, Israel and the history of terrorism, was a former professor at Georgetown University and chairman of the International Research Council of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/walter-laqueur-eminent-scholar-who-probed-the-20th-century-dies-at-97/2018/09/30/a6d2acd0-c518-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html?utm_term=.260523276162
His wife, Susi Laqueur, confirmed the death and said she did not yet know the cause. Mr. Laqueur, who wrote about Nazi Europe, the Soviet Union, Israel and the history of terrorism, was a former professor at Georgetown University and chairman of the International Research Council of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/walter-laqueur-eminent-scholar-who-probed-the-20th-century-dies-at-97/2018/09/30/a6d2acd0-c518-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html?utm_term=.260523276162