Louis Leo Snyder (4 July 1907 – 25 November 1993) was an American
scholar, who witnessed first hand the
Nazimass rallies held from 1923 on in Germany; and wrote about them from New York in his Hitlerism: The Iron Fist in Germany published in 1932 under the pseudonym Nordicus.[1] Snyder predicted
Adolf Hitler's rise to power,
Nazi alliance with
Benito Mussolini, and possibly
the war upon
the French and
the Jews. His book was the first publication of the complete NSDAP
National Socialist Program in the English language.
Snyder authored more than 60 books. He compiled the Encyclopedia of the Third Reich (1976), wrote Roots of German Nationalism (1978), and Diplomacy in Iron (1985) among other works examining the
Third Reich. He also wrote The Dreyfus Case (1973) which divided France over the
Dreyfus affair at turn of the century.[2]
Snyder was appointed a full professor at City College in 1953 and retired to
Princeton, New Jersey in 1977 after a total of forty-four years of teaching. He was the general editor of the
David Van Nostrand Company's Anvil Books.[3] He died in Princeton in 1993.[2]
Leading publications
Die persönlichen und politischen Beziehungen Bismarcks zu Amerikanern, 1932, Darmstadt: Druckerei d. Stud. Wirtschaftshilfe, xiv+94 pages. (this was his 1931 dissertation at the University of Frankfurt)
Hitlerism, the Iron Fist in Germany, 1932 (under the pseudonym, Nordicus),
New York, The Mohawk Press.
From Bismarck to Hitler; the background of modern German nationalism,
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, The Bayard Press 1935.
Handbook of Civilian Protection edited by Louis L. Snyder Under the Supervision of Richard B. Morris and Joseph E. Wisan with a foreword by Augustin M. Prentiss and an Introd. by Guy E. Snavely, New York,
McGraw-Hill 1942.
A treasury of great reporting; "literature under pressure" from the sixteenth century to our own time, edited by Louis L. Snyder and Richard B. Morris ... with a pref. by
Herbert Bayard Swope, New York :
Simon & Schuster, 1949.
National aspects of the Grimm brothers' Fairy Tales in The journal of social psychology 33 (1951) 209–223.
German nationalism: the tragedy of a people; extremism contra liberalism in modern German history,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Stackpole Co. 1952.