Adolf Hitler

April 27, 2015

Tonight's program will look at a number of topics that do not merit an entire show, in my opinion, but are taking up space in my mind and want to be expressed. A  "clearing the desk" type of show, perhaps.

• Refuting the  "evidence" that Hitler's Table Talk is fake based on statements about Christianity;
• No unifying principle to give Europe identity, purpose and will to conquer;
• German President Gauck pays tribute to British who "freed" Bergen Belsen and restored "humanity" to his country;
• Why Hitler is still the answer but is being misused at The Daily Stormer;
• Andrew Anglin continues with his bizarre attacks on White women - some examples;
• Russian bikers "honoring the Red Army heroes" are refused entry into Poland on way to Berlin - Russian Foreign Ministry calls it a sacrilege;
• Europeans desperately need to clear up the false history between their nations from both World Wars.

April 23, 2015

Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager bring you the final reading from the night of Nov. 29-30, 1944 between Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormann.

Following this short reading, we discuss the general content of these Führer monologues that spanned 1941 to 1944. 1h56m. Discussion includes:

• Hitler and Bormann agree on the "fatal relationship" between Communism and Christianity;
• Ray gives a personal overview of the contents of Table Talk;
• Carolyn describes how TT shifted her thinking about Hitler in a number of areas, but mainly Christianity;
• Overview of Hitler's highly controversial criticisms of the Christian Churches in Germany and Christian doctrine;
• Richard Carrier is the main source of the reports that Table Talk is untrustworthy and the Trevor-Roper edition translated by Cameron and Stevens is "not what Hitler actually said."
• More controversial quotes from Hitler about "Russians, Slavs and Stalin" and "Race and Jews";
• Where we are today considering the subjects addressed in Table Talk.

The edition of Hitler's Table Talk being used was translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, published by Enigma Books, New York, and can be found as a pdf here

April 20, 2015

April 20, 1939, Berlin puts on an elaborate celebration in honor of their Fuehrer's 50th birthday. Here, troops leading a marching band goose-step past the reviewing stand and invited guests. Enlarge

Hadding Scott joins Carolyn Yeager to discuss why this is so, and to speculate on what The Fuehrer would have to say if he made an appearance in the world today. One answer to his continuing appeal is that "Hitler was right!" Has anyone ever been more right than he, and also proven it? Discussion includes:

• Hitler's astrological chart reveals a Venusian personality;
• "The Grand Designer" who was actually in the process of designing a marvelous German Reich;
• Hitler took on the job of "saving Germany" in 1918 because he saw no one else who would or could do it;
• Importance of sticking with the Truth - Hitler demanded facts plus sincerity;
• Hitler synthesized Austrian racial pan-Germanism with the Christian Social movement to create National-Socialism;
• Hitler's work habits were a bit on the bohemian side;
• The antisemitism of Richard Wagner and Winifred Wagner's deep friendship with Hitler;
• The appropriateness of Hitler ending his life in Berlin, plus the last-minutes actions of Himmler and Goering;
• Thanks to Ray Goodwin and Fredrick Toben for their calls.
  

In honor of Adolf Hitler's birthday April 20th.

This song will be played during The Heretics' Hour program which willl be devoted to a celebration of his life and thought. Join us!

April 16, 2015

This Episode #55 brings us almost to the end of the conversations recorded in Table Talk. Next week will be our final program of this series, when Ray and I will give our personal views of its authenticiy, meaning and value -- after which we will take phone calls from listeners. If you want to weigh in, be sure to listen to the live show next week, April 23 at 7pm Central (8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific) at Blogtalk.

Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the June 17, 1943 - May 16, 1944 lunch and dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by an aide. 1h25m. Included in this episode:

• Fear of the unknown - Great battleships no longer useful;
• Long discussion of Berlin compared to Vienna, Munich, Linz - Interests of the Reich are paramount;
• Finding film actors among the Arbeitsdienst - Art critics can be disregarded for the most part;
• Hitler's first sight of the Rhine on way to Western Front in 1914 - Getting away from the crowds that always followed him - the beauties of Austria and Bohemia-Moravia;
• Failure of German state to found a German National Church independent of Rome - The 'Modernist' period -Power of the Church to extract obedience;
• Differences between research and instruction - Research should be completely unrestricted - German philosophers above British, French and American - Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche;
• Hitler argues with leading economist Zwiedineck - After taking power, Hitler's "theories" became sound economy.

Image: Scenic view in the Rhine River that Hitler appreciated so much. Enlarge

The edition of Hitler's Table Talk being used was translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, published by Enigma Books, New York, and can be found as a pdf here

April 9, 2015

Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the Sept. 5-7, 1942 and June 13-15, 1943 lunch and dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by attorney Heinrich Heim and another aide. 1h25m. Included in this episode:

• The failings of monarchies and stupidity of Princes - human need for an idol - courageous Munoz Grande;
• Stalingrad so strongly defended because of its name - Dutch interbred with Malays - Church put religion over race - our soldiers marrying foreign girls ends in catastrophe;
• Britons have no concept of chivalry in war;
• No mercy on schoolmasters - discourages replicating museums in major German cities - plans a military museum in Linz;
• Nineteenth century was time of greatest German masterpieces in every branch of art - Munich lacked adequate money to build quality edifices - men fight for the artistic and intellectual heritage of their nation;
• In defence of Metternich - Bismarck needed the war in 1866;
• Natural wonders of landscape attract people more than art museums - poor taste in art can be tolerated but not depravity.

Image: German soldier with Russian machine gun. The Battle of Stalingrad and the surrender of the 6th Army took place during the 10-month break in the Table Talk text.

The edition of Hitler's Table Talk being used was translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, published by Enigma Books, New York, and can be found as a pdf here.

April 2, 2015

Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the Sept. 1-5, 1942 lunch and dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by aide, attorney Heinrich Heim. Included in this episode:

• Pre-and-post-war Vienna -Churchill's visit to Moscow - smoking is a repulsive habit;
• Justice and injustice - girls and children less important than a Hare - May nights in Carinthia - grieves loss of good Gauleiter of Carinthia;
• British politics - Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere - the Nazi Princess;
• Farming in Germany and Ukraine - never give in to the British - not at war with British people but with small clique who rule them - German art and how Jews try to destroy it;
• Speaking several languages not sign of intelligence - German artistes: little Endres and Grock the clown - likeability of Spain and Spaniards.

Image: "My greatest pleasure is to see clowns like Grock. Such people are the sounding-board of the human soul." -Hitler enlarge

The edition of Hitler's Table Talk being used was translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, published by Enigma Books, New York, and can be found as a pdf here

Translated by Shoahbloger

Translation of a secret speech for Gauleiters (district leaders of NSDAP) held 2 weeks after the assassination attempt on Hitler by Stauffenberg. Himmler talks about the treacherous and defeatist attitudes activities in the leadership of the Wehrmacht before and during the War,  about the conspiracy to kill Hitler and take power in Germany, and the consequences of the 20th of July. A copy of this speech was deposited by Martin Bormann in the Central Archive of NSDAP and today it is at the Institut for Zeitgeschichte in Munich. It was published in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte in 1953.

March 26, 2015

"Put the young men into the Army, whence they will return refreshed and cleansed of eight years of scholastic slime!"

Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the August 28-31, 1942 lunch and dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by attorney Heinrich Heim. 1h25m. Included in this episode:

• Divide and conquer - The blood of our race - Austrian Empire and British Empire run by minority - perpetual warfare;
• Criticism of instructional method in secondary schools - too much study not healthy - introduction of universal military service one of greatest events in history;
• Germany land of poets and thinkers? - Sharnhorst brought us back to sanity - value of perseverance supported by enthusiasm;
• Bolsheviks and prostitution - Lloyd George at Versailles -destruction of Duke of Windsor - Jews in Britain - Churchill an unprincipled swine.

Atten: There was a volume problem during the first 30 min. of this episode which I rectified fairly well with Audacity but it's still uneven. Apologies.

The edition of Hitler's Table Talk being used was translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, published by Enigma Books, New York, and can be found as a pdf here