Events & Programs

Timothy Ryback traces the path of the key phrases and ideas that Hitler incorporated into his writing, speeches, conversations, self-definition, and actions drawn from Hitler's Private Library.

About Timothy W. Ryback

Timothy W. Ryback is co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague.  He has written on issues of complex historical legacies for numerouos publications, including The Atlantic Monthy, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, and many others.  He is also author of The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau, a New York Times Notable Book, and most recently, Hitler's Private Library: The Books that Shape the Man, which has been translated into more than a dozen langauges.

Mr. Ryback has a Ph.D. from Harvard University where he taught as a lecturer in the Concentration of History and Literature, the university's oldest interdisciplinary program. Before moving to Paris, Mr. Ryback was resident director and vice president at the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria. Mr. Ryback lives in Paris with his wife, his youngest daughter, and the family dog.

Discover more about his book Hitler's Private Library.