"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 53

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. 1h23. 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