"Table Talk" Study Hour - Episode 50

Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the August 20- 22, 1942 lunch and dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by attorney Heinrich Heim. Included in this episode:

• Maximum mechanization of an army does not defeat larger man-power - Hitler expresses strong criticism for Kaiser Wilhelm II, praise for Ferdinand of Bulgaria;
• Alfred Rosenberg and the Volkischer Beobachter - after the Reichstag fire Hitler and Goebbels put out the next day's edition;
• Baltic Germans - Hitler a “non-family man” - women's peccadillos bring fresh blood into a family - Bavarian girls are not virgins - “rural custom of matrimonial trial";
• Dialects vs standard German - stenographers and secretaries;
• British gained their sense of superiority in India - India a source of great income, they and Mexicans engaged in human sacrifice before the White man came;
• Hitler not fond of local crafts, including German - Don't try to change native peoples - Stalin and the Jews - Lloyd George a wise man - some war comments.

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