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Born in Berlin in 1926, Joachim C. Fest was a historian, journalist, critic, and publisher of the renowned newspaper
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
. Best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, he was the much-praised author of biographies of both Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer, and a leading figure in the debate among German historians about the Nazi period. Fest died in 2006.

Martin Chalmers was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 2004 for his translation of
The Lesser Evil
, the post-1945 diaries of Victor Klemperer. His recent translations include
December
by Alexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter,
Part of the Solution
by Ulrich Peltzer, and
Summer Resort
by Esther Kinsky.

Born in the then Czechoslovak Republic in 1935, Herbert A. Arnold was educated in Germany and is professor emeritus of German and Letters at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.