June 11, 2015
The Fuehrer at the Platterhof Hotel on Obersalzburg July 4, 1944 to address a gathering of industrialists, ministers and military officers. In uniform from left, Erhard Milch, Albert Speer, Rudolf Schmundt (behind Hitler, who was killed in the bomb blast of July 20th), Nicolaus Von Below and Julius Schaub on far right.
This privateaddress by Adolf Hitler to Generals and Officers that took place at the Platterhof Hotel on May 26, 1944 is very interesting but is NOT Hitler's “most significant speech” as has been falsely promoted by non-historian Veronica K. Clark. It wasn't even a speech! As he addressed the officers, he was sitting down comfortably in a room where they were also seated. He did not speak from a prepared text.
Less than two months later (pictured above), on July 4, 1944, he addressed others of his staff in the same room of the same hotel, which he used often for special meetings.
Ray and Carolyn demonstrate that Clark not only badly misinterpreted Hitler's talk as a racial “change of mind” which he never had, but that Clark even changed words Hitler used in two instances, on pages 10 and 48 of the original German manuscript. It is unheard of and totally unprofessional behavior and for this reason Clark's translation and book (priced as high as $2904.00 - a vanity price!) should be cast aside into the realm of sensationalist pseudo-history.
This is Part 1, wherein Hitler speaks of the challenges facing officers at the fronts, the importance of leadership, the scientific perspective, the racial makeup of the German people and its Nordic element, the intolerance of Nature. Part 2 will be completed shortly. 1h39m58s