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Paul Schmidt
Male
Born
Jun 23, 1899
Died
Apr 21, 1970
Nationality
German
Paul-Otto Schmidt was a translator in the German foreign ministry from 1923-1945. During his career he served as the translator for Neville Chamberlain's negotiations with Adolf Hitler over the Munich Agreement, the British Declaration of War and the… Read More
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Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Paul Schmidt.
CHILDHOOD
1899
Birth
Born in 1899.
TEENAGE
1917
18 Years Old
In 1917/18 Schmidt was a soldier in the First World War and was wounded on the Western Front.
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TWENTIES
1921
22 Years Old
In 1921 he took courses in the Foreign Office for the training of conference interpreters.
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1923
24 Years Old
In July 1923, Schmidt, still preparing for examinations, accepted his first assignment for the translating and interpreting service of the Foreign Office at the Permanent Court of International Justice in the Hague.
1924
25 Years Old
After more language study in Berlin Schmidt worked briefly in the Reich Foreign Language Office. Starting in 1924 he worked as an interpreter in the Foreign Office.
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1925
26 Years Old
He married in 1925 and had a son in 1926.
THIRTIES
1933
34 Years Old
Under Reich Chancellor Gustav Stresemann, Schmidt became chief interpreter, a position which he retained after Hitler came to power in 1933.
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FORTIES
1942
43 Years Old
During the war years he served as Hitler's interpreter during his meetings with Marshal Philippe Pétain and Francisco Franco. After the 1942 Dieppe Raid resulted in thousands of Canadian soldiers captured, Schmidt was in charge of their interrogations.
1943
44 Years Old
Schmidt joined the NSDAP in 1943.
1945
46 Years Old
Arrested in May 1945, Schmidt was freed by the Americans in 1948.
1946
47 Years Old
In 1946 he testified at the Nuremberg Trials, where conversations with him were noted down by psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn and later published.
1947
48 Years Old
In 1947, he testified for the prosecution against the directors of IG Farben.
FIFTIES
1952
53 Years Old
In 1952 he joined the Sprachen and Dolmetscher Institute in Munich, a college where students could learn languages and become translators and interpreters.
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