"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 5
April 3, 2014
Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the August 19 – Sept 21, 1941 dinner table monologues by the German Führer, as taken down by an adjutant and checked for accuracy by Martin Bormann. In this program:
- Encouraging high level of births is more useful than preventing war – to kill a man before he is born is the worst;
- The people of Europe should not be dependent upon England, but the Ukraine and Volga Basin will be the granaries for us;
- Criminals and anarchists should be dealt with swiftly and harshly, not turned over to lawyers to get them light sentences;
- The “spirit of decision” in deciding on Operation Barbarossa, and the quality of the German soldier as “best in the world”;
- The industrious German nature compared to the indolent Slav nature is pointed out in several instances;
- His dislike of the Habsburg monarchy and his gratitude to Social Democracy for sweeping all royalties away;
- The duty of National-Socialism is to allow the best in the people to develop.
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.




