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Twelve Years With Hitler (Hardback)

Secretary to the Führer

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By Albert Zoller, Introduction by Roger Moorhouse
Greenhill Books
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781805001348
Published: 2nd May 2025

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In 1930, as a young woman, Christa Schroeder became a stenographer for the Nazi party, before being noticed by Hitler who, in 1933, hired her as his private secretary. Schroeder remained by Hitler’s side, fiercely loyal, for twelve years, living at the Wolfsschanze and even joining him and his staff in the Führerbunker in Berlin in January 1945.

In 1945, interned in the Augsburg camp, Christa Schroeder was interrogated by French liaison officer Albert Zoller, who asked her to recount her years spent with the Führer. Schroeder’s exceptional testimony, published here in the form of interviews with Zoller, gives an intimate, astonishing and incredibly detailed insight into the private life and personality of Adolf Hitler throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

Translated into English here for the first time, Albert Zoller’s interviews with Christa Schroeder are an essential source document on Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler, and guaranteed to shock and fascinate any military history enthusiast.

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This easy read offers Christa Schroeder’s memoirs as secretary to Hitler. It covers a wide range of topics, with observations on his moods, health, management style, art, and personal relations. You’ll get a better sense of what makes him tick. This has likely served as a source for many a Hitler biography, but it’s always nice to read the original.

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About Albert Zoller

Albert Zoller was a French liaison officer who interviewed Adolf Hitler's private secretary Christa Schroeder while she was in detention in the Augsburg camp, Germany, in 1945.


About Roger Moorhouse

Roger Moorhouse is an historian of the Third Reich. He is the author of the acclaimed Hitler's Third Reich in 100 Objects and The Devil's Alliance, and has been published in more than 20 languages. He is also a tour guide and visiting professor at Warsaw's College of Europe. You can see him on Twitter at @Roger_Moorhouse.

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