Lo storico Hans-Joachim Schoeps e il suo biografo

The historian Hans-Joachim Schoeps and his biographer · Hans-Joachim Schoeps typifies the contradiction of wanting to be a conservative, a Prussian and a Jew at a time in which the conservative movement was about to blur into Nazism, Prussia to disappear as a political player, and Hebraism to be virtually swept out of German society. His loyalty to such background and his dedication to the study of the “Geistesgeschichte” made him a challenger of the main cultural trends of post-war Germany and even more difficult to categorize because of his homosexuality.