First, aplologies in my reply in turn, even longer, unfortunately! I got wrapped up in the Prinzregetenplatz thread and almost completely forgot my query here.
Thanks for the reply, regarding:
I looked at the english edition again, and sorry I see that I just missed the best page. On my copy, it is page 36 on the bottom, and the brackets show where would like to know the german word. It says "directly opposite the door to Hitler's study [?] a couple of steps [?] led to a long corridor, beyond which was the so-called adjutancy wing with the room for Hitler's aides. The first room was the Staircase Room (Treppenzimmer) which will often be mentioned again...""I didn't find the term "Hitler's living room" in relation to the Treppenzimmer in the English translation (I looked on pages 37-39), so I can't say what the German edition has for this. Did I miss it, or did you mean a different page?"
Its more easily located by noting its in Chapter 3, immediately following Schroeder's moderate digression (around 2 pages) about Kannenberg's character and way of doing things. One other thing on this point, on the top of page 55 the english edition says the valet would "open the door to the library and shut it as he withdrew" for Schroeder to go in for dictation. Does it really say library, bibliothek, or does it say arbeitzimmmer?
Yes. I am 95 percent sure that is right, that it is in the Old Chancellery, and more precisely, on the north right wing (NE wing of the `H') of the building. But rather than bore about any of that, regarding -you mention-Her description sounds to me like this room was in the Old Chancellery (along with Hitler's study, library, bedroom, etc.), but I am really not very familiar with the Reichskanzlei layout.
Very interesting though! It may explain a caption that I didn't understand in the new book on the Chancellery by Pawlyy. Is it a black and white photo of this hallway, perhaps? If it is different from this, could you scan it?There is no photo in the German edition specifically of the Treppenzimmer. There is a view down the hallway in the New Reichskanzlei that led to the old palace wing, and it says that the Treppenzimmer was also on "this end," by which I take it to mean the end nearest this hallway.
I understand. If the corridor picture is different, that could be very useful in itself if showing the Old Chancellery hall corridor.But the photo does not show the Treppenzimmer, or any of that area of the old palace wing. There are pictures of her taking dictation, and in her office, but not in Berlin (mostly in FHQ Wolfsschanze).
thanks,
- palaisfan