István Deák who lived from 11 May 1926 to 10 January 2023, was an American historian, author, and academic of Hungarian descent.
He was a modern Europe specialist, with a focus on Germany and Hungary, and he wrote extensively on the history of modern Europe.
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Deák died at the ripe old age of 95 from natural causes. Weimar Germany’s Left-wing Intellectuals and Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, are two of Deák’s books.
He edited and co-wrote The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath with Jan T. Gross and Tony Judt. Europe on Trial: The Story of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution During World War II is his most recent book.
Deák worked in the 60s and 70s to re-establish relationships between American and Hungarian historians who had been ejected from colleges following World War II.
He was elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences following the overthrow of the communist regime in 1989.
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