Benjamin Carter Hett
Benjamin Carter Hett is a professor of history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Before his academic career, he worked as a trial lawyer, bringing practical legal experience to his historical analysis.
Hett has established himself as an authority on Nazi Germany and the Weimar Republic through several acclaimed works.
His previous books include Death in the Tiergarten, based on his Harvard dissertation, and Crossing Hitler, which won the Fraenkel Prize and rediscovered the story of lawyer Hans Litten.
He also wrote Burning the Reichstag, examining the 1933 fire, though this work generated scholarly debate about his interpretations.
