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I Paid Hitler

Book of 1941 published under Fritz Thyssen’s name; he denied writing it, and its authorship is disputed.

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Emery Reves 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.
Fritz Thyssen 1941 Scholarship & press 1 2 3
The book appeared under his name. At Nuremberg in 1945 Thyssen denied he was its author. Emery Reves swore that Thyssen reviewed 11 of its 19 chapters and the foreword; the other 8 were dictated but never reviewed.

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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.
I PAID HITLER by FRITZ THYSSEN
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
That passage is of dubious authenticity, however, since Thyssen’s memoirs were ghostwritten.
Fritz Thyssen und „I paid Hitler“ (Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 19, 1971; in German), Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Jul 1971. Scholarship & press
Elf der neunzehn Kapitel des Buches und das Vorwort des Autors seien von Thyssen durchgesehen und gebilligt worden.
leugnete er, der Autor des Buches zu sein

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