Roger Manvell was the first director of the British Film Academy. During WWII, he worked in the Ministry of Information, creating propaganda films for the British government. With Heinrich Fraenkel, he is the author of many books on Nazi Germany, including biographies of Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, and Hermann Göring.
Heinrich Fraenkel was an author and Hollywood writer most notable for his biographies of Nazi war criminals published in the 1960s and 1970s. Some of his best-known books, authored with Roger Manvell, are Heinrich Himmler (New York Times bestseller), Doctor Goebbels, and Göring.