"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 2

March 13, 2013

Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on theSat. July 5th through July 15th, 1941 dinner table monologues by the German Fuehrer, as taken down by an adjutant and checked for accuracy by Martin Bormann. Some highlights from the program:

• Russians do not naturally incline toward a Western, Aryan type of organized state;
• Expansion into the East will create new tourist destinations reachable by autobahn;
• Moscow must disappear and Bolshevisim be exterminated;
• The dominion of natural law, no education in atheism, Christianity less tolerant than the ancient world;
• Moral law governs the actions of Germans, making them uniquely capable of a revolution in religion;
• Racial migrations, and “way of eating” a typically racial characteristic;
• Stalin an extraordinary figure in history.

Image:July 1941. A proud time: Hitler with Field Marshal Keitel and Reichsmarschall Goering (far right) in conversation with Knight's Cross winner Werner Mölders (left). [click on image to enlarge]

The edition being used was translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, published by Enigma Books, New York, and can be found as a pdf here.