Kurt Pätzold
Kurt Pätzold was a German Marxist historian.Career
Kurt Pätzold moved to Thuringia in 1945 with his family. He studied History, Philosophy and Political Economy at the University of Jena from 1948 to 1953, where he received a PhD in 1963.
Pätzold wrote regularly for the Junge Welt and was an advisor to the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. His research included the history of fascism, developments in the field of historical revisionism, and the history of anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews.
According to Wolfgang Benz, in his work Fascism, Racism, Persecution of the Jews, he set an "important sign of Marxist research on anti-Semitism and fascism". Pätzold died of cancer in August 2016.
