Walter Ze'ev Laqueur (26 May 1921 – 30 September 2018) was a German-born American historian, journalist, political commentator, and Holocaust survivor.
[1][2][3] Walter Laqueur was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia, Germany (today Wrocław, Poland),[4] into a Jewish family.
In addition, he was the Middle East correspondent for journals in the United States and a commentator on world politics for Israel radio.
[12] Laqueur wrote extensively about the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the German Youth Movement, Zionism, the cultural history of the Weimar Republic, Communism and the Soviet Union, the Holocaust, the Cold War, fascism, post-World War II Europe and the decline of Europe, antisemitism both ancient and new.
[4] After the fall of the Soviet Union, he predicted that Russia would not become a democracy but an authoritarian system based on nationalist populism.