1. Carl Albert Fritz Michael Gerlich was a German journalist and historian, and one of the leading journalistic resistors of Adolf Hitler.
11 Facts About Fritz Gerlich
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Fritz Gerlich was arrested and later killed and cremated at the Dachau concentration camp.
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Fritz Gerlich wrote his doctoral dissertation, "The Testament of Henry VI", and completed it in 1907.
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Fritz Gerlich began to contribute political articles that were anti-socialist and national-conservative in the publications Suddeutsche Monatshefte, which was edited by Paul Nikolaus Cossmann, and Die Wirklichkeit.
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In 1919, he published the book Communism as the Theory of the Thousand Year Reich, where Fritz Gerlich compared communism with the phenomenon of redemption religion.
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Fritz Gerlich held fascistic views and published several anti-socialist articles in the right-wing press.
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Once a conservative nationalist, after the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, Fritz Gerlich decisively turned against Hitler and became one of his fiercest critics.
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Fritz Gerlich returned in November 1929 to his job at the Bavarian National Archives.
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Fritz Gerlich's death was officially announced days after his arrest, and the announcement was published in the international press at the time.
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Fritz Gerlich was cremated and his ashes given to his wife.
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Fritz Gerlich was portrayed in the TV movie Hitler: The Rise of Evil by actor Matthew Modine.