Paul Schmidt

As an interpreter in the German Foreign Ministry, Paul-Otto Schmidt (18991970) was in attendance at some of the most decisive moments of twentieth-century history. Fluent in both English and French, he served as Hitlers translator during negotiations with Chamberlain, the British declaration of war and the surrender of France, as well as translating the Fuhrers infamous speeches for radio. Having gained favour with the Nazi Party donning first the uniform of the SS then that of the Luftwaffe Paul Schmidt was given absolute authority in everything to do with foreign languages. He later presided over the interrogation of Canadian soldiers captured after the 1942 Dieppe Raid. Arrested in May 1945, Schmidt was freed by the Americans in 1948. In 1946 he testified at the Nuremberg Trials, where conversations with him were noted down by the psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn and later published. After the war he taught at the Sprachen und Dolmetscher Institut in Munich. Hitlers Interpreter presents a highly atmospheric account of the bizarre life led behind the scenes at the highest level of the Third Reich. Roger Moorhouse is a historian of the Third Reich. He is the author of the acclaimed Berlin at War, Killing Hitler and The Devils Pact. He has contributed to He Was My Chief, I Was Hitlers Chauffeur, With Hitler to the End and Hitlers Last Witness.

Este libro es el resultado de más de una década de reflexión sobre el cambio cultural y su medición en la arqueología. Basado en un seminario impartido por Robert Wauchope en Tulane University, el estudio parte de un metodo cuantitativo para analizar la evolucion de la cultura a traves de la ceramica, explorando patrones de innovacion, persistencia y perdida.Mas que una simple revision de datos arqueologicos, esta obra se adentra en la relacion entre arqueologia y antropologia, cuestionando enfoques tradicionales y proponiendo hipotesis audaces sobre la estabilidad e inestabilidad cultural. Con una base metodologica rigurosa y un enfoque interpretativo en evolucion, el autor invita al lector a repensar la arqueologia como una disciplina que va mas alla de la excavacion, hacia la construccion de marcos teoricos para comprender el cambio cultural.

Testigo de excepción de una época convulsa, Paul Schmidt, intérprete oficial de Hitler, vivió en directo los encuentros de los personajes políticos más relevantes de Europa. En este libro relata todo lo que sucedia entre bambalinas en el terreno de la politica internacional.Europa entre bastidores es la cronica de la erratica politica alemana entre 1923 y 1945, escrita por el jefe de los interpretes del Ministerios de Asuntos Exteriores de Alemania.