[LEN-E] Memoiren in English -- drastically cut?

[John]

Hi everyone -- I'm only now getting around to reading Steven Bach's 
book, and I was suprised to read there that around 300 pages were cut 
from Leni's memoirs for the english translation.  I hadn't known this! 
Since the english memoirs is still a very thick volume I assumed we had 
the whole thing.

Does anyone have any idea what was cut?  Have any of our multi-lingual 
members done any comparisons?   300 pages lost seems like such a lot to 
be missing!  Judging by the size of what we do have, as well as by 
Bach's mention that the original is almost 1,000 pages, this would mean 
that english readers are missing roughly 1/3 of the original book!

I suppose some of it might be due to linguistic differences (can english 
be that much more compact than german??), however, Bach implies that it 
is material which was actually cut.

Did the editors drop whole sections in the english version --or-- did 
they go through and drop many smaller embellishing details here and 
there?

I'm shocked to learn that Leni's memoirs which I've been referencing for 
the last 10+ years or so in my film studies are this incomplete.  I 
guess I need to learn german.  :-)

I'm half entertaining the idea of purchasing the german version (can it 
still be had??) and trudging through it with OCR and internet 
translation ... although I know those internet translation sites often 
give gobbledygook, and it seems that german doesn't often translate 
literally into english anyway.   And, of course, that would take a great 
deal of time to do.

Has any student or Leni enthusiast undertaken to write an english 
summary of what is missing from the english translation?

I'm just wondering what other english readers think about this.  It's 
very frustrating to think that we are missing 1/3 of what Leni wrote!

Best wishes to all,
John