Hermann Rauschning

German Conservative Revolutionary who briefly joined the Nazis before he broke with them in 1934.

Rauschning joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became the head of the parlement of Danzig in 1933.

In 1934 he left the Nazi party membership and defected to the United

States where he denounced Nazism.

Rauschning is chiefly known for his book Conversations with Hitler in which he claimed to have many meetings and conversations with Hitler. His book is considered to be a fraud by historians.

After the war he became a staunch critic of the president of the federal republic of Germany Konrad Adenauer