Sebastian Haffner
Raimund Pretzel, better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and historian. As an émigré in Britain during World War II, Haffner argued that accommodation was impossible not only with Adolf Hitler but also with the German Reich with which Hitler had gambled. Peace could be secured only by rolling back "seventy-five years of German history" and restoring Germany to a network of smaller states.
27 December 1907
Born on the same birth date (27 December 1907): Asaf Halet Çelebi • Conrad L. Raiford • Mary Howard (novelist) • Willem van Otterloo
Born on the same birth day (27 December): Conrad L. Raiford • Daimí Pernía • Eva LaRue • Hermann-Paul • Jay Pandolfo • Johann Melchior Roos • John Celardo • Marlene Dietrich • Onni Palaste • Phil Sharpe (cricketer) • Polly Toynbee • Terry Price (golfer)
Born in the same month (December 1907): Albert Gore Sr. • Amedeo Nazzari • Asaf Halet Çelebi • Barbara Kent • Bill Holland • Cab Calloway • Connee Boswell • Fred Rose (politician) • Giuseppe Occhialini • J. Barkley Rosser • James Roosevelt • Jimmy McLarnin • Lin Biao • Lucien Laurent • Manuel Lopes (writer) • Mary Howard (novelist) • Mike Mazurki • Oscar Niemeyer • Paul Francis Webster • Peggy Ashcroft • Roy Douglas • Rumer Godden • Willem van Otterloo • Ze'ev Ben-Haim