He is particularly known for his biographies of Georg Elser who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939; Reinhard Heydrich who was one of the main architects of the Holocaust; and Joseph Süß Oppenheimer who was executed in 1738 and in 1940 was the subject of a notorious Nazi anti-semitic propaganda film, Jud Süß.
Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698–1738), German-Jewish financier whose life and ultimate execution formed the basis for literary, stage, film and television representations
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Graphics for the historian Hellmut G. Haasis's book Joseph Süß Oppenheimer genannt Jud Süß.