"Table Talk" Study Hour - Episode 31

Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the March 29-April 4, 1942 lunch and dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by aide Henry Picker. Included in this episode:

• Honesty in trade set by the Hanseatic League for over 500 years, which only turned to "Buyer Beware" when Jews got involved;
• The sorry state of the Judiciary, and Hitler's intention for judges to put the interests of the State first;
• Hitler sees the mentality of the Russians revealed in their Feb. 24th attempted assasination of Amb. Franz Von Papen in Turkey;
• Explains why the Turks are better allies than the Bulgarians ;
• Long exposition of the Policy of the Reich in the East, with historical perspective, including Charlemagne and Frederick the Great;
• Why Frederick the Great was a better man than Napoleon and the weakness of hereditary monarchies;
• Hitler concludes that the future Germany must be a republic with a Fuehrer at the head, chosen by a specially selected Senate.