For and About Women

August 7, 2014

Adolf Hitler with Mussolini and his military adjutant Col. Hossbach in rear, driven by his personal Chaufferur Erich Kempka. Enlarge

Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the Jan. 23-26, 1942 dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by trusted aide, attorney Heinrich Heim. Included in this episode:

• Hitler enumerates the good qualities of the Czechs and the dangerous qualities of the Jews;
• England must choose between Europe and it's Eastern colonies;
• Taxes and the problem of bureaucratic overgrowth - Jodl and Himmler comment;
• Hitler waxes lyrical about Richard Wagner and family, which leads to how strenuous the annual Party Congress in Nuremberg is for him;
• Fuehrer chaufferurs, their training, and appreciation for motor-cars;
• Realities of marriage and why it's not for him, plus the joy of beautiful women.

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.

by Carolyn Yeager, July 2007

copyright Carolyn Yeager 2007

We hear, read and speak much about the male warrior, and rightly so, as every people who seek to be independent and free has need of them. We know there have been female warriors too, sprinkled here and there throughout history. We call to mind the famous Amazon women of Greece; the warrior queen Vishpala of the iron leg, mentioned in the Rigveda; the helmeted Gordafarid of the Iranian Shahnameh (pictured); the Shield Maidens and Valkyries of Norse mythology.