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Acknowledgments

in my research for this book, i was fortunate in having had access to the
following archives: the National archives, london, UK; the National ar-
chives, Hyattsville, Md, Usa; Churchill archives, Cambridge, UK; Cen-
tre des archives diplomatiques de Nantes, France. in each of the archives,
the staff was at all times helpful in locating documents that were essential
for my study and that i could not easily find on my own. i should point
out that i focused on archives that contained documents that were widely
seen by government officials in london, Paris, and Washington. Person-
al correspondence between diplomats in Germany and colleagues in the
three capitals were of less interest to me because of their limited exposure
at the time they were composed. i want to thank Wiley Publishers for
permission to quote extensively from my article “Was Hitler a riddle?,”
which appeared in The Journal of the Historical Society, vol. iX, no. 1 (March
2009): 1–21.
i am grateful to the two outside readers who reviewed the manuscript
with great care and made suggestions that improved the study. i also want
to thank Guenter lewy, a close friend for the past sixty years, for his helpful
suggestions. Norris Pope, the director of scholarly Publications at stan-
ford University Press, once again gave me excellent advice on the prepara-
tion of this book; i especially appreciated his encouragement to write a
book-length study after reading my article on Western diplomats in Nazi
Germany some years ago. emma s. Harper and John Feneron, editors at
stanford University Press, could not have been more helpful in handling the
many issues that arose during the long process of preparing the manuscript