Henry Friedlander (born 1930) is a German-American Jewish historian of the Holocaust noted for his arguments in favor of broadening the scope of casualties of the Holocaust.
Born in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish family, Friedlander came to the United States in 1947 and obtained his BA in History at Temple University in 1953 and his MA and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1954 and 1968. Starting in 1975 until his retirement in 2001, Friedlan...
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Henry Friedlander (born 1930) is a German-American Jewish historian of the Holocaust noted for his arguments in favor of broadening the scope of casualties of the Holocaust.
Born in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish family, Friedlander came to the United States in 1947 and obtained his BA in History at Temple University in 1953 and his MA and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1954 and 1968. Starting in 1975 until his retirement in 2001, Friedlander served as a professor in the department of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Friedlander has argued that three groups should be considered victims of the Holocaust, namely Jews, Roma, and the mentally and physically disabled, noting that the latter were Nazism's first victims. Moreover, Friedlander has argued that the origins of the Holocaust can be traced to the coming together of two lines of Nazi policies, the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi regime and its “racial cleansing” policies that led to...
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