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Lot 2360:
Illustrated obrosch. Unprinted back cover slightly browned at the edges and inside cover and front cover with faint brown stains. Good specimen. First edition. Cobet 30, 141. "Former Chief of Staff reports the truth" (cover). Halder (1884-1972) was initially aloof from the Nazi movement, and even before he became his successor as Chief of Staff, he was part of a conspiracy group with Generaloberst Beck that wanted to arrest Hitler should England take military action during the Sudeteten crisis. Due to the "peaceful" agreement through the Munich Agreement, however, this plan became obsolete. In the run-up to the western campaign, there was another conspiracy among military circles in which Halder was involved, but all of this initially remained completely secret and did not harm his career. He was instrumental in planning the campaigns in Poland and in the West. The attack on the Soviet Union also came about with his help, and here he was particularly responsible for the formulation of the criminal commissar order. In 1942 he criticized Hitler’s decisions in the Russian campaign and was subsequently dismissed and retired. In the course of the court proceedings and testimonies obtained through torture after the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944, Halder’s earlier conspiracy activities also came to light and he was arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Most recently in Dachau, he was liberated there by the Americans. After a short time as a prisoner of war, he worked from 1946 to 1961 as head of the German department of a war history research group of the US Army and thus exerted considerable influence on the processing of the history of the Second World War, which, however, no longer stands up to today’s criticism. As a result of this activity, he was classified as not incriminated when he was denazified, and repeated attempts by the judiciary to hold him accountable, above all because of the commissar order, failed, not least because his American department declared him indispensable.
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