Education
Thorwald was a native of Solingen, Rhenish Prussia, and attended the University of Cologne.
(8.5" x 6"; 335 numbered pages. Text is in German. Many WW...)
8.5" x 6"; 335 numbered pages. Text is in German. Many WWII photos inside. The fearful story of the conquest of Eastern Germany by the Red Army. Weichsel is the German name for the river Vistula (Polish Wisla) that passes Kraków and Warsaw in Poland.
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Thorwald was a native of Solingen, Rhenish Prussia, and attended the University of Cologne.
He started his career in 1933 in Nazi Germany, writing for publications such as Die Braune Post ("The Brown Mail"), the Steamship journal Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps") and the NSDAP paper National-Zeitung. During the war he worked as a propaganda writer focusing on the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine and the general German war effort. After the war he used the pseudonym Jürgen Thorwald in order to be able to work under allied occupation.
In 1947, he legally adopted the new name.
In 1984 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Thorwald died in Lugano.
Die ungeklärten Fälle, 1950
Wen sie verderben wollen.., 1952
Der Fall Pastorius, 1953
Blut der Könige. Das Drama der Bluterkrankheit in den europäischen Fürstenhäusern, 1954
Das Jahrhundert der Chirurgen, 1956 (The Century of the Surgeon)
Das Weltreich der Chirurgen, 1958 (The Triumph of Surgery)
Die Entlassung.
Das Ende des Chirurgen Ferdinand Sauerbruch, 1960 (The dismissal: The Last Days of Ferdinand Sauerbruch)
Macht und Geheimnis der frühen Ärzte, 1962
Das Jahrhundert der Detektive, 1964 (Century of the Detective: Volume 1 in English "The Marks of Cain" (1965), Volume 2 "Dead Men Tell Tales" (1966, ))
Die Stunde der Detektive.
Werden und Welten der Kriminalistik, 1966
Macht und Geheimnis der frühen Ärzte, 1967
Die Traum-Oase, 1968
Die Patienten, 1971 (The Patients)
Die Illusion. Rotarmisten in Hitlers Heeren, 1974 (The Illusion: Soviet Soldiers in Hitler"s Armies)
Das Gewürz. Die Saga der Juden in Amerika, 1978
Im zerbrechlichen Haus der Seele.
Ein Jahrhundert der Gehirnchirurgen, der Gehirnforscher, der Seelensucher, 1986
Die Monteverdi-Mission Droemer Knaur, München 1989, Neufassung: Juli 1998
Der geplagte Mann.
Die Prostata - Geschichte und Geschichten, 1994.
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