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Christopher Hale is a British non-fiction writer and documentary producer who has produced documentaries for most of the major international broadcasters. From 2013 to 2017, he was the executive producer of the Channel News Asia International unit in Singapore. Hale and a small team of producers made a number of series including ‘Power and Piety’, five documentaries about religious conflict; ‘The Asian Century’ focusing on pivotal moments in Asian history; and ‘Inventing Southeast Asia’ made with Dr Farish Noor. CNAi won a number of regional awards.


Education and career

Hale was educated at the University of Sussex and
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- and began his television career as a film editor. He made some apprentice films at the BBC, including a One Pair of Eyes episode called ''Nationality Uncertain'' - and was offered the opportunity to make a major documentary for
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called ''Is there Anybody There'', with the psychologist
Nicholas Humphrey Nicholas Keynes Humphrey (born 27 March 1943) is an English neuropsychologist based in Cambridge, known for his work on evolution of primate intelligence and consciousness. He studied mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey in Rwanda; he was the fi ...
. He has since made series and many one-off programmes, including ''Search for the Sons of Abraham]''. In 1989, Hale's ''Byline: Blind to Science'' (BBC) won a Special Award from the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS). In 1999, Hale made ''Atlantis Reborn'' for the BBC science strand Horizon, a critique of pseudo historical ideas focusing on the myth of Atlantis and the claims of write
Graham Hancock
When the documentary was transmitted, Hancock complained to the Broadcasting Standards Commission - now Ofcom - whic
exonerated the broadcaster of any significant unfairness
Hale described the experience of making the film and dealing with the anger it provoked in a chapter ''The Atleantean Box'' in 'Archaeological Fantasies', edited by Garret G. Fagan for Routledge. In 2002, Hale was commissioned by Bantam Books to write a book about the
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-sponsored
1938–1939 German expedition to Tibet The 1938-1939 German Expedition to Tibet, a German scientific expedition, took place between April 1938 and August 1939 under the leadership of the German zoologist and Schutzstaffel, SS-officer Ernst Schäfer. Origins Nazi ''Reichsführer'' ...
. Research in archives in the UK and
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, as well as research visits to India and Tibet led to ''Himmler's Crusade''. Hale has featured in a ''Secret History'' for Channel 4 and ZDF. ''Himmler's Crusade'' has been translated into Romanian, Polish, Greek and other languages. In 2006, the Italian translation of the book won the Giuseppe Mazotti prize. Hale published ''Hitler's Foreign Executioners'' – an intensive analysis of SS recruitment of non German police and Waffen-SS units and their role in the Nazi genocide. This is also available in Italian, Czech, Polish and Estonian versions. Hale's third non-fiction book was a revisionist analysis of the Malayan Emergency: ''Massacre in Malaya: Exposing Britain's My Lai'' (2013)Neal Ascherson, A Plan and a Man, review of Christopher Hale's
Massacre in Malaya: Exposing Britain’s My Lai
', in ''London Review of Books'', Vol. 36, No 4, 20 February 2014.
He contributed to ''The Waffen SS'' (OUP, 2016). Hale's most recent non-fiction book is ''Deception: how the Nazis Tricked the Last Jews of Europe'', published in September 2019.


Bibliography

*Hale, Christopher. ''Himmler's Crusade : the true story of the 1938 Nazi expedition into Tibet'' / Christopher Hale. London : Bantam, 2003. xiv, 422 p., 2p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. * Hale, Christopher. ''Himmler’s crusade : the Nazi expedition to find the origins of the Aryan race'' / Christopher Hale. Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2003. x, 422 p., 6p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. * * Hale, Christopher. ''Massacre in Malaya: Exposing Britain's My Lai'' (History Press, 2012) * Hale, Christopher. 'Deception: how the Nazis Tricked the Last Jews of Europe' (History Press, 2019)


See also

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1938–1939 German expedition to Tibet The 1938-1939 German Expedition to Tibet, a German scientific expedition, took place between April 1938 and August 1939 under the leadership of the German zoologist and Schutzstaffel, SS-officer Ernst Schäfer. Origins Nazi ''Reichsführer'' ...


References


Review of Himmler's Crusade in The Daily Telegraph: The master race in the mountains
Mentions ''Himmler's Crusade'' as "The book on which the Channel 4 documentary was based."

by
Michael Burleigh Michael Burleigh (born 3 April 1955) is an English author and historian whose primary focus is on Nazi Germany and related subjects. He has also been active in bringing history to television. Early life Michael Burleigh was born on 3 April 1955. ...
in the Sunday Times, 3 August 3, 2003
Charles F. Urbanowicz / August 21, 2006. Fall 2006 Anthropology 496 Guidebook and Selected Anthropology Essays.
Quotes ''Himmler's Crusade''


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