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1914-2003. [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]] was a prominent British historian.<ref>Paul Lewis, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/obituaries/26cnd-trevor.html Hugh Trevor-Roper, Hitler Historian, Dies at 89], New York Times, 26 January 2003.</ref>
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[[Hugh Trevor-Roper]] (1914-2003) was a prominent British historian.<ref>Paul Lewis, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/obituaries/26cnd-trevor.html Hugh Trevor-Roper, Hitler Historian, Dies at 89], New York Times, 26 January 2003.</ref>
  
During World War Two, Trevor-Roper served in the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] (SIS), where he was a colleague of [[Kim Philby]]. At the end of the war, he carried out an SIS investigation into the fate of Hitler, which provided the material for his 1947 book, 'The Last Days of Hitler'.  
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During World War Two, Trevor-Roper served in the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] (SIS), where he was a colleague of [[Kim Philby]]. At the end of the war, he carried out an SIS investigation into the fate of Hitler, which provided the material for his 1947 book, ''The Last Days of Hitler''.  
  
 
Trevor-Roper attended the 1950 Berlin [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]], as a member of the British delegation, which was funded by the Foreign Office, though the [[Information Research Department]].<ref>Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, p.76.</ref> He was highly critical of the tone of the conference, and attacked the domination of proceedings by 'rootless European ex-Communists'.<ref>Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.195.</ref>
 
Trevor-Roper attended the 1950 Berlin [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]], as a member of the British delegation, which was funded by the Foreign Office, though the [[Information Research Department]].<ref>Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, p.76.</ref> He was highly critical of the tone of the conference, and attacked the domination of proceedings by 'rootless European ex-Communists'.<ref>Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.195.</ref>

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Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) was a prominent British historian.[1]

During World War Two, Trevor-Roper served in the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), where he was a colleague of Kim Philby. At the end of the war, he carried out an SIS investigation into the fate of Hitler, which provided the material for his 1947 book, The Last Days of Hitler.

Trevor-Roper attended the 1950 Berlin Congress for Cultural Freedom, as a member of the British delegation, which was funded by the Foreign Office, though the Information Research Department.[2] He was highly critical of the tone of the conference, and attacked the domination of proceedings by 'rootless European ex-Communists'.[3]

Notes

  1. Paul Lewis, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Hitler Historian, Dies at 89, New York Times, 26 January 2003.
  2. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, p.76.
  3. Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.195.