"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 3
March 20, 2014
Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the July 21st-28th, 1941 dinner table monologues by the German Fuehrer, as taken down by an adjutant and checked for accuracy by Martin Bormann. Some highlights from the program:
- Graditude to the Jesuits for the Counter-Reformation and its Baroque architecture, leaving the Gothic behind;
- Admiration for Mussolini and the glory of Italian art-architecture, superior to the French;
- Martin Luther credited with replacing the many regional dialects with the great German language;
- English-German industrial competition and their comparison in the arts and culture;
- The merit of the German soldier, the prestige of the SS, and the weakness of the WWI command;
- How to control the Eastern regions with soldier-farmers as colonists;
- Wrong to exterminate the intelligentsia, but a class system is intolerable –cannot despise the man who sweeps the streets.
Image: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini walking in front of saluting military in Venice, as Hitler first arrives in Italy in 1934. (click to enlarge)
The edition 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.
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Markus
March 21, 2014 at 9:10 am
Ray brought up a cruxial point regarding how Germans see Americans, especially German-Americans.
Toothless traitors that stab their motherland in the back when she is most vulnerable. The laughing third that shows up and betrays all of Europeans really. The British lost their empire to the US, and the Russians had to share the victory.
If indeed the Americans hadn’t forced themselves into this European matter, Germany would have won and crushed the Franco-Anglo-Russo encirclement once and for all.
After Germany’s victory, the US could have waged war against a focused enemy eye to eye or just remain neutral.
Tanstaafl
March 21, 2014 at 11:55 am
The jews had tremendous influence over the money, media and foreign policy in the US, even before the war. Lindbergh described who had directed the US into the war and how, overriding the popular opposition of both Anglo- and German-Americans.
If jewish power was never explicitly recognized and overthrown in the US, as it had been in Germany, then eventually the jews’ Plan B (the Manhattan Project), which was intended from inception to be used to incinerate Germans, would eventually have been deployed under some pretext or another.
Nick Dean
March 21, 2014 at 4:50 pm
Years ago I spent several fruitless days trying to track down a complete audio version of the Des Moines speech. You’ll notice that the youtube clip Tan posted begins immediately after Lindbergh had talked about the Jewish war-agitators:
“Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.
“I am not attacking either the Jewish or the British people. Both races, I admire. But I am saying that the leaders of both the British and the Jewish races, for reasons which are as understandable from their viewpoint as they are inadvisable from ours, for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in the war.
“We cannot blame them for looking out for what they believe to be their own interests, but we also must look out for ours. [here the audio begins] We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.”
I got a guy from the Lindbergh Foundation intrigued and he even contacted Lindbergh family members and staff at the Library of Congress and big media archives, but he too drew a blank.
If anyone can find it … ? It’s hard to believe the full speech wasn’t recorded.
Nick Dean
March 21, 2014 at 5:07 pm
“the jews’ Plan B (the Manhattan Project), which was intended from inception to be used to incinerate Germans, would eventually have been deployed under some pretext or another.”
I think it’s a distinct possibility Germany was nuked. The testimony collected by Thomas Goodrich for HELLSTORM suggest it’s a plausible hypothesis:
[...]
“German cities… will be subjected to an ordeal the like of which has never been experienced by a country in continuity, severity and magnitude,” vowed Churchill. “To achieve this end there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.”
https://cienciologia.wordpress.com/category/hellstorm/
I disagree that Churchill was individually responsible. Churchill is at fault because he was irresponsible. Drunk and muddle-headed and manipulated.
Carolyn
March 21, 2014 at 6:33 pm
Nick Dean,
My own opinion of Thomas Goodrich is that he is a an over-emotional opportunist looking for book topics that will SELL. There were no nuclear bombs dropped on Germany, and to “suggest” such a thing just feeds conspiracy theorists, of which you are one.
If our readers want to read what he wrote about it, they can go to the link you provided which takes them to Chechar’s blog.
Nick Dean
March 21, 2014 at 9:49 pm
There is no responsive content in that reply of 6:33 pm, Carolyn Yeager.
Regarding the nuke hypothesis, the evidence is more interesting than your confident but unproven claim.
Carolyn
March 22, 2014 at 2:22 am
Nick, you say
I think it’s a distinct possibility Germany was nuked. The testimony collected by Thomas Goodrich for HELLSTORM suggest it’s a plausible hypothesis.
Lots of things can be plausible. Plus it has nothing to do with what was on the program.
Dietlef Busch
March 24, 2014 at 6:57 am
@ Dean “Nukes” and napalm carpet bombings explained & White phosphorus