"Table Talk" Study Hour - Episode 30

Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the March 7-24, 1942 dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by trusted aides. On March 21st the note-taker switches from Heinrich Heim to Henry Picker.  Included in this episode:

• Jealousy among women explained as result of prehistoric period when female protection depended on one man;
• Hitler compares men and women to the detriment of women at 3 different mealtimes;
• Hitler on smoking and why/when he quit the habit--(Who knew he had ever smoked?!);
• Questions of the Wehrmacht, private property vs the State, lotteries and gambling, Capitalism and monopolies;
• Stafford Cripps a more threatening figure than Churchill to the health of the Empire;
• The disastrous influence of Jews on the Arts--the genuine artist and the fake.