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Publisher: William Heineman Ltd.
Date: 1951
Edition: 1st
Hardcover/Leather bound without dust jacket
Pages: 286 Postscript & Index included
Condition: Good
A mellow, tight & clean copy. Cover's leather is damaged & Pages are clean without inscriptions.
Paul Otto Schmidt was an interpreter in the German foreign ministry for more than 20 years, serving Hitler at key foreign policy encounters. He served as the translator for Chamberlain's negotiations with Hitler over the Munich agreement, the British Declaration of War, the signature of the Nazi-Soviet Pact & the surrender of France. During the war years he served as Hitler's aide for meetings with Petain, Francisco Franco & others. He was arrested in May 1945 & testified at the Nuremberg Trials; released by the Americans in 1948. His memoirs present an atmospheric, detailed, portrait of the highest level of he Third Reich. This is the full translation of his memoirs.