Talk:Paul Schmidt (interpreter)

Deathdate
According to The World at War he was interviewed in the 1970s (You can see his interview if you watch the episode entitled "Barborassa") the World at War seies was initially completed and showed on primetime TV in 1973, meaning he must of been interviewed in the Early 1970s, and the majority of the interviews were filmed in the years 1971/72, So whoever put his death year up there as 1970, do you have evidence to back that up? Please feel free to post on my talk page for any information, or on here. Thank you. Goldblooded (talk) 12:40, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

This is a really puzzling inconsistency which I also noted whilst watching the Barbarossa episode. There is an additional episode titled ″The Making of the series″ produced in 1989. This is essentially a monologue by Jeremy Issacs in which he states at 6 minutes (in my UK DVD version) that work on the series started in April 1971. There are many references to Schmidt′s deathdate of 21 April 1970. I believe the most authoritative is that listed in the Directors profile page for Paul Schmidt on the website of the SDI München, the language institute he helped found; The final entry in the timeline ″21.04.1970 Verstorben in Gmund am Tegernsee" ( Died at Gmund am Tegernsee ). I wonder when the interview was really recorded. Needs more research. argray 16:30, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Schmidt's uniform
One of the pictures shows Schmidt in uniform. What organization or unit is associated with that uniform? The answer would be worth adding to the caption. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dynzmoar (talk • contribs) 14:45, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
 * The Nazi's liked to create uniforms not only for the armed forces, but also for official or semi-official state ministries, or even for party organizations (SA, RSKK,...). Looks like Schmidt in the picture with Petain is wearing the German diplomatic uniform as used during the Nazi-rule. Foreign minister von Ribbentrop in the background is wearing it as well. -- fdewaele, 18 January 2020, 16:06 CET.
 * I was just reading his auto-biography and he said that when Mussolini came to Berlin, Schmidt was the only person who was wearing civvies, all of the other Germans and Italians were wearing uniforms. Hitler didn't like this (especially the top hat worn by Schmidt), so Hitler gave Schmidt an SS uniform and Goering gave him a Luftwaffe uniform (despite the fact that Schmidt was not a member of either organization). Eventually, a 'new dark blue uniform' was created for Foreign Office officials.--Marjaliisa (talk) 03:07, 27 January 2020 (UTC)