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Emery Reves

Publisher who brought out the 1941 book I Paid Hitler; Turner calls him its ghost-writer.

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Fritz Thyssen und „I paid Hitler“ the publisher whose account the court rejected Scholarship & press 2

I Paid Hitler 1941 According to Henry Ashby Turner Scholarship & press 2 3
Reves swore in 1945 that Thyssen reviewed 11 of the 19 chapters and the foreword; the 8 others were dictated but never reviewed. The Königstein court refused to accept his account of how the book was made.

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I Paid Hitler, published under Fritz Thyssen's name (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1941); Thyssen denied writing it, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1941. Scholarship & press
Facsimile of the contract signed by Fritz Thyssen and Emery Reves for the publication of his memoirs
In this great competition among publishers to obtain Thyssen’s memoirs, I have taken part myself and it happened to be that I won.
Fritz Thyssen und „I paid Hitler“ (Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 19, 1971; in German), Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Jul 1971. Scholarship & press
weigerte sich, Reves’ Version von der Entstehung des Buches zu akzeptieren
Elf der neunzehn Kapitel des Buches und das Vorwort des Autors seien von Thyssen durchgesehen und gebilligt worden.
German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler (Oxford University Press, 1985; page numbers come from the running heads of a scanned copy and may be off by one), Oxford University Press, 1985. Scholarship & press
Emery Reves, who served as ghost-writer for his purported memoir

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