Nuremberg Diary: First Edition (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Schmidt, Franz. A hangman's diary / being the journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573 - 1617 ; edited, with an introduction by Albrecht Keller and translated by C. Calvert and and A. W. Gruner. With an introductory essay by C. Calvert. London: Philip Allan & Co. Ltd., 1929. Second impression. Hardback, Good, no dustjacket. Panelled black cloth, bumped to corners and head and base of the spine, with some rubbing to the spine edges. Binding firm, starting to crack along the front gutter. Light tanning/foxing to endpapers. Frontispiece b/w illustration. 250pp., b/w illustrations. Light foxing to final page of index, otherwise contents clean and bright. Franz Schmidt (1555-1634), also known as Meister Franz or Frantz Schmidt, was an executioner in Hof from 1573 to April 1578, and from 1 May 1578 till the end of 1617 he was the executioner of Nuremberg. He left a diary in which he detailed the 361 executions he performed during his 45-year career. Schmidt's journal is unique as a source of social history and history of law. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. We do not use AI and all images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Nuremberg Diary by G.M. Gilbert, 1947, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, EX-Library in Fair condition, Nuremberg Diary is Gustave M. Gilbert's account of interviews he conducted during the trials of Nazi leaders, including Hermann Göring, involved in WWII & the Holocaust. He served as a prison psychologist in Nuremberg, where he had close contact with those on trial. The text is the verbatim notes he took immediately after having conversations with the prisoners, information backed by essays he asked them to write about themselves. Parts of the diary was published in '47 & the whole thing was published in '61, just before Adolf Eichmann's Jerusalem trial. "Gö Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy & it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship./ There is one difference. In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, & in the United States only Congress can declare wars./Gö Oh, that is all well & good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, & denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism & exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.".…