Hitler's briefings
Hitler's briefings: The fragments of minutes of his military conferences 1942–1945 , edited by Helmut Heiber , is a 970-page hardcover edition of the texts of Adolf Hitler 's briefings published by the Deutsche Verlagsanstalt in 1962 . Although only a small part of the original volume has been preserved, Hitler's briefings are important in historical studies as a fundamental and comprehensive source of research into Hitler's ways of thinking, on the one hand, and of the course of troop movements and military strategies in World War II . They are therefore often quoted.
The collection can be of importance to historians as it allows them to analyze Hitler's way of thinking over a large period of time. The edition is the only comprehensive collection of the surviving fragments of the documented briefings.
“It is thanks to Hitler's fondness for the protocol that historians are able to analyze this way of thinking in detail today. For years he had what he said meticulously recorded - be it between soup and dessert (first published in 1951 under the title Hitler's Table Talks ), be it in front of the General Staff Map (published in 1962 under the title Hitler's Situation Meetings ). "
Almost all of Hitler's briefings that have survived since 1942 are included in the edition. This issue does not include the last briefings on April 23, 25 and 27, 1945, which appeared in 1966 and to which Spiegel dedicated a cover story in 1966.
Web links
- Work, partial editions and translations in the catalog of the German National Library
- Citations according to Google Scholar
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog.hathitrust.org
- ^ Catalog entry in the German National Library
- ↑ Hitler: Diagnosis of a destructive prophet., F. Redlich - 1998, p.
- ↑ 'Working Towards the Führer.' Reflections on the Nature of the Hitler Dictatorship, Ian Kershaw - Contemporary European History, 1993
- ^ The Third Reich, K. Hildebrand - 2009, p. 125.
- ↑ The Stranger in Us, A. Gruen - 2000, p. 91 ff.
- ↑ Göring, D. Irving, H Dahlberg - 1987, p. 555, available online: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See the review by Percy Ernst Schramm in: Historische Zeitschrift , Vol. 201, H. 1 (Aug. 1965), pp. 143–146.
- ^ Hitler documents. Astray . In: Der Spiegel 3/1966.
