"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 38

Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the May 14-20, 1942 lunch and dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by aide Henry Picker. Included in this episode:

• The importance to the rise of National-Socialism of having its own national press;
• The people want a leader - leadership is a masculine trait;
• The lax patriotic standards during the first world war and the issue of handing out decorations to both Germans and foreigners;
• The danger of arming small nations, and the faults of diplomats;
• Usefulness of Japanese alliance and necessity of swift decisions toward Russia;
• Why National Socialism is not for export and the special qualities of and decorations for the German worker;
• The new Man and the accomplishments of the National Socialist revolution;
• Good relations with the Czechs.