Комплект из двух книг. Документы и материалы кануна Второй мировой войны. 1937-1939 гг.,

Volume 1 (November 1937- December 1938) contains documents from the Archive of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs: recordings of conversations between Hitler, Ribbentrop, and other representatives of the German government with foreign politicians, reports from German diplomatic representatives abroad, and others.

Volume 2 (January-August 1939) is the archive of the German Ambassador to Moscow, Tokyo and London, Herbert von Dirksen. It consists of copies of official documents stamped for Mr. Ambassador, official and personal letters. It is published according to the second edition of M., Politizdat, 1981, prepared for publication by the Historical and Diplomatic Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For historical accuracy, the publisher has retained the preface to the second edition. Studying the published unique (at one time top secret) documents will help to understand the true reasons for the outbreak of the most terrible war in history and to feel the almost physically inevitable impending catastrophe.