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Susanne Miller
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German historian. She came from a family of upper middle class, mostly spent her childhood in Vienna and Sofia and engaged already in their youth in the socialist labor movement. She did not returned from a stay in the UK, after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany because of her political beliefs and their Jewish origin. Instead, she became involved in London in exile circles, which also belonged to her later partner and husband Willi Eichler. After the end of World War II, she went with him to Cologne and then to Bonn to take part in Germany's political reconstruction. Miller worked in the 1950s as an employee of the national leadership of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and worked among other things, in the creation of the Godesberg program. From 1960 to 1963 she continued her studies in Bonn, which she had broken off in the 1930s, and graduated with a program-historical work of German social democracy. Then she was an employee of the Commission for the History of parliamentarism and the political parties. Her historiographical works deal mainly with issues of the labor movement, exile and of recent German history. Susanne Miller preferred political-historical approaches to the study of programs, ideologies and political movements.

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