Notes on Meeting with Hitler., 02/16/1940-03/04/1940

File — Box: 1, Folder: 16

Identifier: 35071

Series-level Scope and Content Note

From the Series:

Materials relating to a libel case by JDM against PM Magazine for an article it published linking JDM to Nazi penetration of the United States.

Dates

02/16/1940-03/04/1940

Collection-level Access Restrictions

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Extent

From the Collection: 12 Linear Feet (11 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Container Summary

1 TMs and 3 carbon TMss of the "summarized statement...of Reichschancellor Hitler during his conversation with Mooney...March 4, 1940." During their meeting, Hitler had his assistant write out Hitler's statements in German, then translate them into English and carefully edit them. Folder also includes two handwritten drafts of the statement and a carbon of JDM's letter to Hitler requesting the meeting (16 Feb 1940), a copy of which is also in Folder 8, Box 1.