Peter Paret

Peter Paret (born April 13, 1924) is American military, cultural & art historian with a particular interest in German history. Paret was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Dr. Hans Paret and Suzanne Aimée Cassirer, who divorced in 1932. The mother with her two children left Germany in 1932 to continue her studies with Sigmund Freud, and in 1934 married Siegfried Bernfeld, a prominent Viennese pyschoanalyst and educational reformer. After two-and-a-half years in France and six months in London, they emigrated to the United States in 1937. Paret's father, who was not Jewish, remained in Germany. During World War II, Paret served in the United States Army between 1943–1946 in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Korea. During the 1950s, Paret...