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Title: Misleading translation
Review: These are notes rather than recordings, and - certainly as presented here - they are not "indisputably authentic".Trevor-Roper claimed that the text has been translated from the German, but this is only true inasmuch as the French translation by Francois Genoud was at some point liberally translated from the German. Norman Cameron, funnily enough, is a French translator (e.g.To the Happy Few: Selected Letters). Henry Picker's original German varies significantly from the translation presented here. Picker was one of the stenographers. Genoud's political proclivities are self-professed and well known - as was his penchant for 'what Hitler would have said' (as per his 'Hitler's Last Testament' - which Trevor-Roper also introduced (he also 'authenticated' the Hitler Diaries), and which appears to have even been 'retranslated' from Genoud's French into German - seeGefälscht! Betrung in Literatur, Kunst, Musik, Wissenschaft und Politik.).
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