Portions of this book were first published in 1963 and 1965 in Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier 1941-1942 by H. Picker, edited by P. E. Schramm, et al.; and in 1961 in Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht (Wehrmachtführungsstab) 1940-1945, introduced and edited by P. E. Schramm