"Table Talk" Study Hour - Episode 49

Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the Aug. 16-20, 1942 lunch and dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by attorney Heinrich Heim. Included in this episode:

• Churchill decided on war years before 1939, praise for the French workman, obstruction from the Wehrmacht's niggardly ways;
• Hitler recalls how he imposed his will and used all his powers against the Army, Navy and his own Ministers in order to prepare Germany for war, in spite of the cost;
• Crimes against animals vs people, judges and national morale, different treatment of criminals during peacetime and wartime;
• Function of law is to safeguard the public, Hitler's personal experience with lawyers, officers of the judiciary must be the best a country has.

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