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Roland Hill (2 December 1920 - 21 June 2014)〔(HILL )〕 was a German-born British journalist and author of the first modern biography of Lord Acton.〔()〕 He was born in Hamburg. His father, Rudolf Hess, was a sugar trader and his mother an opera singer. Both his parents were Jews, but they brought Roland up as a Lutheran. With Hitler's rise to power, the family moved to Prague, Vienna and Milan. In 1937, in Vienna, he was received into the Catholic church and took up journalism. In 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War he was in London, working for Austrian and German newspapers, and he was interned as an enemy alien. He later served in the British Army where he changed his name in case he was captured.〔Christopher Howse, ‘(In and Out of Hitler's Reich )’, 20 October 2007.〕 In London, where he died, he worked for The Tablet and as correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Presse and others. ==Works== *''Lord Acton'' (Yale University Press, 2000). *''A Time Out of Joint: A Journey from Nazi Germany to Post-War Britain'' (I B Tauris & Co, 2007). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roland Hill (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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