Rupert Butler


Rupert Butler was born in 1933. He is the son of Lt.-Col. Patrick Richard Butler and Rhona Curzon (the daughter of Assheton Nathaniel Curzon).[1]

Career

He is an authority on Soviet and Nazi police, secret police and special forces during the 1930s and the Second World War.

His many books include Gestapo: The Truth Behind the Evil Legend, which has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, German, and Danish.[2] Among his other books are The Black Angels: A History of the Waffen SS, Legions of Death: The Nazi Enslavement of Eastern Europe, and SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler: The History of the First SS Division 1933-45. Legions of Death is frequently employed by Holocaust deniers to support claims that the various confessions of Rudolph Hoess were obtained through torture.[3][4]

His most recent books are on Russia: "Stalin's Instruments of Terror", an illustrated account of the life of the Soviet dictator was published in 2006, and "Stalin's Secret War" (2010).[5]

Butler currently lives in London.

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References
  1. thePeerage.com
  2. WorldCat
  5. Journalist Directory
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