Summary
Vladimir Vauhnik: In Search of Hitler's Military Plans
Vladimir Vauhnik will describe his three-year stay in Berlin, where he held the post of military attaché at the end of 1938, in his memoirs "In Search of Hitler's Military Plans". Giving in it a broad picture of German preparations for the conquest of European states, he does so from the point of view of a direct witness, who, according to the reports of the American intelligence agency CIA, was probably the best-informed foreign observer. in Berlin.
In detail, with many picturesque and extremely interesting details, he describes the later course of German military operations and the conquest of Poland, France and numerous other countries, Wauchnik leaves an invaluable testimony about the first years of the Second World War. At the same time, Vauchnik was entrusted with the not-so-easy duty of representing the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which was trying to avoid participation in the war.
The special charm of the memoir is given by the descriptions of Wauchnik's meetings with almost the entire Nazi elite, but also with a number of people who determined the history of the last century, among them Hitler, Goering, Himmler, Goebbels, Prince Paul, Hitler's opponents who would carry out the July conspiracy and Ivo Andrić, the then Yugoslav deputy in Berlin.
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