He Was My Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Secretary

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CHRISTA SCHROEDER WAS AN ordinary woman cast into quite extraordinary times. Born in 1908 in the pretty central German town of Hannoversch Münden, she trained as a stenotypist before moving to Munich in 1930. Whilst there, she replied to an advertisement in the newspaper for a secretarial position at the headquarters of Hitler’s stormtroopers◦– the SA. The association thus forged would be a lasting one. Graduating to a position as Hitler’s personal secretary in 1933, Schroeder would be part of the Führer’s entourage for the following twelve years, right up the bitter end in 1945.

This memoir, compiled from contemporary notes and letters as well as postwar reminiscences, is Christa Schroeder’s own record of those extraordinary times. It gives the reader a fascinating insider’s viewpoint on many of the salient events of the Third Reich. She expounds not only on political developments such as the Röhm Purge of 1934 or the attempt on Hitler’s life in July 1944, but also on military matters from the Polish campaign through to the final collapse of the Nazi regime, which she experienced from the comparative safety of Berchtesgaden.

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