War Dairies from Inside Hitler's Headquarters

"The world will hold its breath when Operation Barbarossa is executed" -- Adolf Hitler. Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of Soviet Russia. Thus German/Nazi historian Helmuth Greiner quoted Hitler. Greiner served as Custodian of the War Dairy in Hitler's Headquarters August 1939 until April 1943, when he was dismissed, apparently for not being sufficiently pro-Nazi. He survived the war without being sent to a death camp or shot. His Diary entries were ordere...