Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, fled from Nazi Germany, and died in New York. Best known for the work "From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film," which traces the birth of National Socialism from the cinema of the Weimar Republic as well as helping lay the foundation of modern film criticism. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.