{{short description|German journalist and historian (born 1952)}} '''Ralf Georg Reuth''' (born 4 June 1952 in [[Oberfranken]]) is a German journalist and historian.<ref name="S1">Enrico Syring: ''Review: Ralf Georg Reuth, Hitler. Eine politische Biographie''. In: ''[[Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift]]'' 62 (2003), p. 596.</ref> Reuth studied with [[Andreas Hillgruber]] and wrote his Ph.D. on the German strategy in the Mediterranean from 1940 to 1942.<ref name="S1" /> He published several books dealing with the Nazi era, among them a biography of [[Joseph Goebbels]] in 1992 and of [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] in 2003. Reuth also edited a multivolume selection from the diaries of Joseph Goebbels, which drew criticism notably from Bernd Sösemann.<ref name="S1" /> He also wrote biographies of [[Erwin Rommel]], [[Angela Merkel]] and [[Helmut Kohl]].

Reuth's 2004 book ''Rommel: Das Ende einer Legende'', dedicated to the topic of the [[Rommel myth]], has started the reevaluation of Rommel's role in history.{{sfn|Beckett|2014|pp=1-2}} The book was published in English in 2005 as ''Rommel: The End of a Legend''.

==Works== * Reuth, Ralf Georg (1993). ''Goebbels''. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. {{ISBN|0-15-136076-6}} * {{cite book | last = Reuth | first = Ralf Georg | year = 2005 | title = Rommel: The End of a Legend | publisher = Haus Books | location = London | isbn = 978-1-904950-20-2 }}

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* {{cite contribution |last=Beckett |first= Ian|contribution=Introduction |title=Rommel Reconsidered |editor=I. F. W. Beckett |location=Mechanicsburg, PA |publisher=Stackpole Books|year=2014|isbn= 9780811714624 }}

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