"Table Talk" Study Hour - Episode 32

Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the April 1st-5th, 1942 dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by aide Henry Picker. Included in this episode:

• Hitler praises Tsar Ferdinand and his son Boris, Tsar of Bulgaria;
• Criticism of existing German protocols for visiting dignitaries -prefers the French and Italian way of treating visitors;
• Terrorism of the Jews - cowardice of our monarchs - laws of inheritance - the necessity of struggle - rulers should come from soldiers;
• Protecting German patents - lands of the North, Finland & Russia - Leningrad;
• Whether and how to incorporate Germanic peoples into the Reich - schools for politcal education - problems of the Poles, Czechs;
• The treachery in Germany after 1918 - getting around the disarmament diktat of the Versailles Treaty.