The Goebbels Diaries 1942-1943

Goebbels, Joseph; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Louis P. Lochner [Maude Miner Hadden]

Published by Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1948

About this Item

1st printing stated. Binding tight; pages clean. Unclipped ($4.00) dust jacket shows some edgewear; spine slightly faded. Inscribed by Lochner on front endpaper: 'To Mrs. Maude Hadden with the best wishes, not of the late and unlamented author, but of his critical editor, commentator and translator,' and dated Palm Beach, Fla. Jan. 31, 1949, nine months after the book's publication. Maude Miner Hadden founded and ran the Institute of World Affairs, an international students' union. She also founded and was president of the Palm Beach Round Table, where Lochner appeared in 1949 as part of a speaker series -- hence the inscription. Lochner had run the Associated Press's Berlin bureau, won a 1939 Pulitzer Prize for his wartime reporting from Nazi Germany, interned by the Nazis in December 1941, and eventually released in a prisoner exchange. 'The Goebbels Diaries' is a landmark work both in the wake of the Holocaust and now: 'Goebbels was closer to Hitler than any of the others. And if he was mad, he was a madman with an eye on history. His diaries are an almost unbearably intimate record of unrelieved evil. Yet they are also the best and most accurate record we are likely to have of what went on inside Germany during the war.' Copies of the book are startlingly uncommon signed by Lochner. 566 pages. Seller Inventory # 7962

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Goebbels Diaries 1942-1943

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co.

Publication Date: 1948

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition