"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 16

June 26, 2014

Adolf Hitler in pre-Chancellor days, signs something for Julius Streicher, NSDAP Gauleiter of Nuremberg.

Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the Dec. 17-31, 1941 dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by trusted aide, attorney Heinrich Heim. Some highlights of this episode:

• Hitler tells stories about Karl Lueger and Georg von Schoenerer of Vienna, plus other mayors of German cities;

• The difficulty of building an art collection when Jews are dishonest dealers - finding the Bordone Venus;

• More on how cooked food causes disease, and the achievements of the Party men;

• Hitler defends Julius Streicher, who has been removed as Gauleiter of Nuremberg - says Dietrich Eckart had also thought men like Streicher were necessary;

• Hitler treats his political opponents well;

• Ruhr industrial district - the need for increased production of coal and iron;

• Some thoughts on the Japanese.