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Guido Knopp (born 29 January 1948 in Treysa, Hesse) is a German journalist and author. He is well known in Germany, mainly because he has produced a great number of TV documentaries, predominantly about the "Third Reich" and National Socialism, but also about other topics, such as Stalinism.
Knopp's history films are often criticised for presenting the Third Reich too superficially and for "editing history" to play down the role of the German public in building and supporting Hitler's regime. Der Tagesspiegel, tagesspiegel.de. 25 September 2006. Die Zeit, zeit.de. October 2004. Accessed 5 May 2022. He was condemned for rewriting history by leaving out the role of the Wehrmacht (former German Army) in the cruelties of World War II."Alle waren Opfer" ("Everyone was a victim"). No. 48/2006, Die Zeit, 23 November 2006."Unter Wölfen" ("Amongst Wolves"). Der Spiegel Magazine, 28 November 2006. In 2004, a group of international historians warned that documentaries like the ones produced by Knopp could reduce important historic facts to mere infotainment. German Who is Who The myth that German dictator Adolf Hitler attended the funeral of Kurt Eisner and supported the Bavarian Soviet Republic originates with Knopp
In 2003, Knopp pleaded for Konrad Adenauer to be featured in the Unsere Besten list of greatest Germans, compiled by ZDF-TV. "Die Botschaft von Hambach – Verpflichtung für heute!", speech of Guido Knopp., quote: "Das ZDF, mein Sender, hat im Herbst des Jahres 2003 nach dem besten Deutschen der Geschichte gefragt. Ich habe für Konrad Adenauer gekämpft, weil er den geschlagenen demoralisierten Deutschen nach dem Krieg ein neues Selbstbewusstsein gegeben hat." ("The ZDF, my station, was asking in autumn 2003 for the best German in History. I fought for Konrad Adenauer, because he gave the defeated demoralized Germans new self-consciousness after the war.") In 2004, he received the Goldene Kamera and the and European TV award for his work. He teaches journalism at the Gustav-Siewerth-Akademie in Weilheim-Bierbronnen (Baden-Württemberg) and lives in Mainz. His publishing house is the German Random House group (Bertelsmann group). Short biography, randomhouse.de. Accessed 5 May 2022. In 2008 Knopp worked on a movie about failed Hitler assassin Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Marktschreier des Tages: Tom Cruise/Guido Knopp (Pitchman of the Day: Tom Cruise/Guido Knopp), JungeWelt.de. 21 January 2008.
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