"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 35

Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the April 25 - May 3, 1942 lunch and dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by aide Henry Picker. Included in this episode:

• Considerations on the escape of a French General and more of Hitler's thoughts on diet - importance of raw food;
• On the competition between art museums and his plans to make Linz the most beautiful city on the Danube, surpassing Budapest;
• Hitler continues to talk about his plans for the Eastern territories, says roads are better than inland waterways;
• The German opera, and his opinion of various conductors;
• Architectural problems - artistic cities vs political/military cities - art for all the people and school children too;
• How he avoids the assassin's bullet - too much police protection a negative.