Timothy W. Ryback

Timothy W. Ryback is the Deputy-Secretary General of the Académie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris, and co-founder of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. He was previously Director and Vice President of the Salzburg Global Seminar and a lecturer in the Concentration of History and Literature at Harvard University.

Ryback has written on European history, politics and culture for numerous publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and The New York Times. He is the author of The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau, published in 2000. He also wrote Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life, published in 2008. Ryback is also author of Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, published in 1989.

Selected works

• Timothy W. Ryback (2010) (in German), Hitlers Bücher: seine Bibliothek - sein Denken, Köln: Fackelträger-Verl., ISBN 978-3-7716-4437-6  (English trans.: )
• Timothy W. Ryback (2000) (in German), Der letzte Überlebende: auf der Suche nach Alfred Zahlenfeldt, Berlin: Siedler, ISBN 3-88680-691-X  (English trans.: )

External links

• Académie Diplomatique Internationale (ADI)
• Salzburg Global Seminar
• Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation (IHJR)
• Hitler's Private Library at the publisher's webpage
• "Hitler's Family - In The Shadow Of The Dictator" Ryback appears in this documentary from the "As It Happened" TV series