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Hitler's Interpreter (Paperback)
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Hitler's Interpreter (Paperback)
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As the main interpreter for Adolf Hitler during the key prewar
moments, such as the Munich Agreement, the British Declaration of
War and the surrender of France, Paul-Otto Schmidt was well placed
to record his impressions of events from 1935 up to 1945. He was an
interpreter working in the German foreign ministry where he served
from 1923 to 1945, and being fluent in English and French he gained
respect and was Hitler s usual first choice for the important
meetings. During the war years he served as Hitler's interpreter
during his meetings with Marshal Philippe Petain and Francisco
Franco. After the 1942 Dieppe Raid resulted in thousands of
Canadian soldiers captured, Schmidt was in charge of their
interrogations. Schmidt s book is helpful in gaining an insight
into the minutiae of Third Reich thinking and planning as much as
planning went beyond Hitler s will. One classic nugget is from the
early morning of 3 September 1939 when Britain issued its ultimatum
to Germany, for it was Schmidt who had to hand the translation to
Hitler: After an interval which seemed an age, he turned to
Ribbentrop, who had remained standing by the window. What now?
asked Hitler with a savage look, as though implying that his
Foreign Minister had misled him about England s probable reaction.
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