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Sebastian Haffner

1907 to 1999 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Sebastian Haffner across 3 places, from 1907 to 1952. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Raimund Pretzel (27 December 1907 – 2 January 1999), better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and historian.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Sebastian Haffner was documented, and when

1907year
Berlinattested “Haffner was born in 1907 as Raimund Pretzel in Berlin.” source: Wikipedia: Sebastian Haffner
1938year
Englandattested “In 1938 Erika Schmidt-Landry (née Hirsch) (1899-1969) was able to join a brother in England, and Haffner, on a commission from the Ullstein Press, was able to follow her.” source: Wikipedia: Sebastian Haffner
March 1952month
United Statesattested “Following a McCarthy-era trip to the United States, Haffner had soured on the North Atlantic alliance, and (with Paul Sethe of ) he was unwilling to dismiss as bluff the March 1952 Stalin Note with its offer of Soviet withdrawal in retur…” source: Wikipedia: Sebastian Haffner

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Places Sebastian Haffner is documented in

Berlin1 presence · 1907England1 presence · 1938United States1 presence · 1952

Other places tied to Sebastian Haffner in the record

In each of these, a source puts Sebastian Haffner and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Sebastian Haffner was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1924year
Berlin-Lichterfeldementioned “His adolescent politics, however, took a turn rightward after he moved, in 1924, to the Schillergymnasium in Lichterfelde heavily subscribed to by families in the military.” source: Wikipedia: Sebastian Haffner
1934year
Berlinmentioned “Doctoral research allowed Haffner to take refuge in Paris, but unable to gain a foothold in the city he returned to Berlin in 1934.” source: Wikipedia: Sebastian Haffner
1934year
Parismentioned “Doctoral research allowed Haffner to take refuge in Paris, but unable to gain a foothold in the city he returned to Berlin in 1934.” source: Wikipedia: Sebastian Haffner
1948year
Englandmentioned “The Observer's foreign editor and an influential opinion former in England, in 1948 Haffner became a naturalised British citizen.” source: Wikipedia: Sebastian Haffner
1954year
Berlinmentioned “In 1954 he accepted a financially generous offer to transfer to Berlin as The Observer's German correspondent.” source: Wikipedia: Sebastian Haffner
2 June 1967exact date
West Berlinmentioned “Contributing himself to konkret (later revealed to have been subsidised by the East Germans) Haffner wrote that "with the Student pogrom of 2 June 1967 fascism in West Berlin had thrown off its mask".” source: Wikipedia: Sebastian Haffner

Documented at the same place, the same year

Winston ChurchillWashington · 1952Alan TuringWashington · 1952Thomas MannWashington · 1952Theodor W. AdornoWashington · 1952Arthur ComptonWashington · 1952Luciano BerioWashington · 1952César PelliWashington · 1952Toots ThielemansWashington · 1952George StevensWashington · 1952Janusz KorczakBerlin · 1907Carl SchmittBerlin · 1907Muhammad IqbalBerlin · 1907

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