"Table Talk" Study Hour - Episode 20

Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the Jan. 13-17, 1942 dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by trusted aide, attorney Heinrich Heim. Some highlights of this episode:

• Hitler talks about Czechs in general and Emil Hacha in particular;
• Men of genius like Austrian composer Anton Bruckner, who was unappreciated for so long, must be encouraged;
• High birthrate at the time in India, in Russia, but also in Germany;
• A woman of genius: Angelica Kauffmann was a very great painter, says Hitler;
•  His early days with Dietrich Eckart in Obersalzberg - how he bought his house "Wachenfeld" - he was known only as Herr Wolf until he began giving public speeches;
• Recalls the many friends from those days, which were the best days in his life, and how he enjoys the ladies and pretty girls;
• Hitler mentions "the second volume of my book" being written in the Deutsche Haus in Berchtesgaden;
• Praises Dietrich Eckart, calls him the "polar star" to the early National Socialists.