"Table Talk" Study Hour - Episode 24

Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the January 28-February 2, 1942 lunch and dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by trusted aide Heinrich Heim.  Included in this episode:

• The importance of large families and the rights of the living;
• Recollections of prison days and how to handle the Czechs;
• Long discussion on his friendship with the Duce, Italian Fascism and the "fossils" of the Italian Court;
• Hitler describes his early political opponents, plus his experiences with the police and with procuring weapons;
• Tells some amusing stories about French Ambasador to Germany Andre Francois-Poncet;
• Hitler criticizes his diplomats and questions how to reorganize German diplomacy.