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Overview
"A cool, judicious, and well-informed guide to the meeting whose minutes were described by the war crimes prosecutors at Nuremberg as 'perhaps the most shameful document in modern history.'"
--Richard J. Evans, author of Hitler's People
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- ISBN-13: 9780312422349
- ISBN-10: 0312422342
- Publisher: Picador USA
- Publish Date: July 2003
- Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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