How Dead is Hitler?' Der britische Starreporter Sefton Delmer und die Deutschen

Karen Bayer's biography of Sefton Delmer throws the spotlight on an unusual character: a British journalist who grew up in Imperial Berlin and later befriended prominent Nazis, yet who waged a war-time propaganda campaign against Germany and became identified as a leading Deutschenhasser in the early post-war period. Delmer's unusualness is his great attraction for the biographer and the historian. Few other individuals’ lives shuttle back and forth between Germany and the United Kingdom so constantly as this native German-speaker who spent the duration of both wars in Britain but much of the rest of his life in Germany, as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Express. Thus, his life offers a relational and not merely comparative perspective on British and German societies in the twentieth century. Delmer's unusualness is also a potential problem for the biographer-historian. Bayer anticipates the objections to biography in her introduction, citing such sceptics

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