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# Jeffrey Herf

(1947)   Media Historian

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Jeffrey Herf is a media historian.

## Quick Facts About Jeffrey Herf

Born April 24, 1947

Profession Media Historian

## About Jeffrey Herf

American historian (born 1947)... \| Jeffrey C. Herf is an American historian of modern Europe, particularly modern Germany. He is professor emeritus of modern European history at the University of Maryland, College Park.

##  Quotes by Jeffrey Herf

> [Though anti-Semitism had been only one of several sources of Nazi voting strength, after 1933 Hitler placed anti-Semitic ideologues, the most important…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-herf/though-anti-semitism-had-been-only-one-of-several-sources-of-nazi/)

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