"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 37

Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the May 12-13, 1942 lunch and dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by aide Henry Picker. Included in this episode:

• Sane economic and racial principles - the racial problems in Prussia must be addressed;
• Discussion with Gauleiter Forster and Reichsleiter Bormann on Germanising Poles ... or not;
• Hitler says the origin of the Czechs is Mongolian, the Bulgarians are Turkoman, and each case of potential Germanization must be examined on its own merits;
• Marriage is sanctified by the birth of a child and it is the duty of men to marry;
• Frederick the Great's racial policy was on a par with the National Socialist policy;
• The choices France now faces, Marshal Petain old but honorable, German construction on the French Channel coast.