March 27, 2014
Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the August 1st-10th, 1941 dinner table monologues by the German Führer, as taken down by an adjutant and checked for accuracy by Martin Bormann. Some highlights from the program:
- Even though German functionaries are incorruptible, too much uniformity and fear of initiative is not a good thing;
- Hitler's sympathetic attitude toward workers, and his dislike of the bourgeoisie and the plutocracy;
- Hydro-electric and gas works - the future will depend on water, wind and natural gas;
- The British method of ruling their empire was not to try to Anglicize the people, but to leave them to live according to their own ways;
- Hitler sees the combined forces of Germany, England, the Nordic countries and Italy as greater than the USA.
Click image to enlarge: German troops march past a church as they move deeper into Russia in 1941.
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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