''The Halder Diaries'' is a collection of diaries written by German Colonel General Franz Halder. His diaries from his time as Chief of the Army General Staff have been an important primary source for authors who have written about such subjects as

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and the

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. He was able to make extensive notes of Hitler’l's conversations or closed speeches to generals using

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. In

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's ''

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'', Halder's diary entries are cited hundreds of times. The diaries were published as ''The Halder Diaries: The Private War Journals of Colonel General Franz Halder'' in two volumes in 1976 by

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of Boulder, Colorado, with an introduction by Trevor N. Dupuy (). The original German version had the title ''Kriegstagebuch'' ("War Diaries"), and the translation had been published in eight volumes in 1948 by the Office of Chief Counsel for War Crimes, Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.).

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