Adolf Hitler’s interpreter
In retirement today, in a house overlooking a lake south of Munich, lives Dr Paul Schmidt a German who 32 years ago was in a key position at the outbreak of World War 11.
When Britain presented Hitler with the ultimatum “Unless you stop your attacks on Poland within the next two hours, we shall be at war” the man who took the fateful message at the German Foreign Office was Dr Schmidt.
For 20 years Schmidt was chief interpreter at the German Foreign Office. He was there in 1926 when Germany was admitted to the League of Nations and he was at Nuremberg in 1946. In between he was a unique witness of his country’s dramatic rise and fall. In the 8.8. C. programme, Dr Schmidt talks to English author and former newspaper man Donald McLachlan and gives a personal account of his remarkable career.
“The Man Between Germany and the World” was produced for the 8.8. C. by Donald Wheeler and screens from CHTV3 on Sunday, October 17.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32734, 11 October 1971, Page 4
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