Hans Herlin was a German novelist. He started a writing career as a journalist

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 and worked his way up to become managing editor

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 of Molden, one of Germany's largest publishing houses

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. In 1972 he began writing books full time

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, and in 1975 published his best known novel Commemorations, about "Nazi skeletons in the national closet". Commemorations was published in the United States in 1975 by St. Martin's Press

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. His books have been published in more than 18 countries.

Herlin died of a heart attack

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 at age 68, at his home in southern France

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on December 20, 1994.

List of Novels

• Der Teufelsflieger Ernst Udet U. D. Geschichte Seiner Zeit (1974)
• Freunde Roman (1974)
• Commemorations (1975)
• Tag- Und Nachtgeschichten (1978)
• Which Way the Wind (1978)
• Der Letzte Mann Von Der Doggerbank Tatsachenbericht (1979)
• Die Geheimen Machte Des Ubersinnlichen Unglaubliche Tatsachen (1980)
• Die Geliebte Die Tragische Liebe Der Clara Petacci Zu Benito Mussolini (1980)
• Satan Ist Auf Gottes Seite Roman (1981)
• Verdammter Atlantik Schicksale Deutscher U-Boot-Fahrer Tatsachenbericht (1981)
• Der Letzte Fruhling in Paris (1983)
• Solo Run (1983)
• Achtung Welt, Hier Ist Kreuzweg Die Flieger Von Hiroshima (1984)
• Grishin by J. Maxwell Brownjohn, Hans Herlin (1987)
• The Last Spring in Paris (1988)
• Siberian Transfer (1992)
• The Survivor. The True Story of the Sinking of the Doggerbank by John Brownjohn, Hans Herlin (1995)
• Die Sturmflut Nordseekuste Und Hamburg Im Februar 1962 (2005)