Volume 28, Number 7 · April 30, 1981
The Gambler
By Norman Stone
The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany: Starting World War II, 1937-1939
by Gerhard L. Weinberg
University of Chicago Press, 728 pp., $44.00
Germany and the Two World Wars
by Andreas Hillgruber, translated by William C. Kirby
Harvard University Press, 148 pp., $14.50 (to be published in May)
When war broke out between Great Britain and Germany in September 1939, Hitler received the news with dismay. News reached him as he sat in the Reichskanzlei and his interpreter recorded that Hitler 'sat absolutely silent and unmoving. After an interval he turned to Ribbentrop, who had remained standing frozen at the window. 'What now?' Hitler asked the foreign minister, with a furious glare, as if to say that Ribbentrop had misled him as to the probable reaction of the British.'
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