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Gerald Reitlinger

REITLINGER, GERALD (1900–1978), British historian. Born in London and educated at Westminster School and Oxford, Reitlinger worked as an art dealer and critic while writing important pioneering works on the Nazi era. His The Final Solution (1953; revised edition, 1967) was one of the first comprehensive histories of the Holocaust and is still valuable. Reitlinger's The SS: Alibi of a Nation (1956) was one of the earliest serious accounts of the Nazis' agents of genocide. Reitlinger also wrote a three-volume history of art sales down the ages, The Economics of Taste (1961–70) and exhibited his own paintings.


Sources: Encyclopaedia Judaica. © 2007 The Gale Group. All Rights Reserved.