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- Birth nameHugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
- Hugh Trevor-Roper was born on January 15, 1914 in Glanton, Northumberland, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Motorola Television Hour (1953), Tourists of the Revolution (2000) and Panorama (1953). He died on January 26, 2003 in Headington, Oxford, England, UK.
- Now that the German war is over, and the surviving grandees of Nazi Germany are captured and talking, what poor, inflated vulgarians, what weak pretenders they all turn out to have been, how absurd and byzantine that fantastic court at Berlin and Berchtesgarden and in the peripatetic Fuhrerhauptquartier!
- [on Salman Rushdie] I would not shed a tear if some British Muslims, deploring his manners, should waylay him in a dark street and seek to improve them. If that should cause him thereafter to control his pen, society would benefit, and literature would not suffer.
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