"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 38

Dec. 4, 2014

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Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the May 14-20, 1942 lunch and dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by aide Henry Picker. 1h29m.  Included in this episode:

• The importance to the rise of National-Socialism of having its own national press;
• The people want a leader - leadership is a masculine trait;
• Lax patriotic standards during the First World War and the issue of handing out decorations to both Germans and foreigners;
• Danger of arming small nations, and the faults of diplomats;
• Usefulness of Japanese alliance and necessity of swift decisions toward Russia;
• Why National-Socialism is not for export and the special qualities of and decorations for the German worker;
• The new Man and the accomplishments of the National-Socialist revolution (this is some very inspiring prose);
• Good relations with the Czechs.

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.