Otto Wagener [SEP] place of death
and later, from 1947 to 1952, Italian prisoner of war camps.
In 1946, while being held by the British, Wagener wrote his memoirs about Hitler and the Nazi Party's early history, entitled "Hitler aus nächster Nähe. Aufzeichnungen eines Vertrauten 1929−1932" (known in English as ""). His work was not published until seven years after his death, in 1978. His memoirs are used, to some degree, by Nazi Germany historians.
Otto Wagener died in Chieming in 1971.
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Otto Wagener
Otto Wagener (29 April 1888 – 9 August 1971) was a German major general and, for a period, Adolf Hitler's economic advisor and confidant.
Biography.
An industrialist's son, Wagener was born in Durlach, graduated from "Gymnasium" and then became an army officer. In 1916 during the First World War, Wagener was promoted to the General Staff.
After the war, Wagener was involved in the planning of an attack against the city of Posen (now Poznań, in