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In this section of his book, Giesler gives his impressions and an architectural critique on Albert Speer's June 1971 interview in Playboy magazine. I have included it in its entirety, even the more technical parts that were, in a few places, difficult for me to decipher from the part of Wilhelm Kriessmann's original translation which never went through the editing process between the two of us before he died in December 2012.  ~Carolyn Yeager

Speer in the "Playboy"

 From Hermann Giesler’s memoir Ein Anderer Hitler 
Speer im "Playboy", pages 318-329
1977 edition, Druffel-Verlag

Translated byWilhelm Kriessmann and Carolyn Yeager 
copyright Carolyn Yeager 2014

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In the Summer 1971 my son brought me from America a peculiar magazine: Playboy, June 1971, the great interview “Albert Speer—Hitler’s closest confidant and second in command.”1 That interview in the sensationally edited magazine is accompanied by ill-reputed and illustrated jokes and by naked, boasting 'girls'. The answers given by the great ethicist and titan of repentance to the smartly questioning reporter, Eric Norden, in the multimillion-read magazine, are unique and way-out, and contain such wicked passages that they become unbelievable even at dimensions preferred by Speer.

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The Contradictious Speer 

From Hermann Giesler’s memoir Ein Anderer Hitler 
Der zwiespältige Speer, pages 332-339
1977 edition, Druffel-Verlag

Translated  by Wilhelm Kriessmann and Carolyn Yeager 
copyright Carolyn Yeager 2014

This section from Giesler's memoir Ein Anderer Hitler deals with his correction of Albert Speer’s insulting statements about the Fuehrer at occasions when Giesler was present or knew differently because of his own experience with Hitler.

To add some perspective to Giesler’s account, we remind you that Speer’s biographer Gitta Sereny titled her book, Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth. 

In addition, Nicolaus von Below, Hitler’s Luftwaffe adjutant from 1937-45, wrote in his memoir At Hitler’s Side about an incident of seeing a striking red color appear in the sky while in the company of Hitler on the terrace at Obersaltzberg in Aug. 1939. He told Hitler it augured a “bloody war.” He said he “recounted this conversation to Speer in 1967 but later he (Speer) attributed my remark erroneously to Hitler in his book Erinnerungen.”1

June 26, 2014

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Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the Dec. 17-31, 1941 dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by trusted aide, attorney Heinrich Heim. Some highlights of this episode:

• Hitler tells stories about Karl Lueger and Georg von Schoenerer of Vienna, plus other mayors of German cities;
• The difficulty of building an art collection when Jews are dishonest dealers - finding the Bordone Venus;
• More on how cooked food causes disease, and the achievements of the Party men;
• Hitler defends Julius Streicher, who has been removed as Gauleiter of Nuremberg - says Dietrich Eckart had also thought men like Streicher were necessary;
• Hitler treats his political opponents well;
• Ruhr industrial district - the need for increased production of coal and iron;
• Some thoughts on the Japanese. 

June 23, 2014

Carolyn goes for a three-hour show because Speer is such an interesting character! Some highlights:

• How Architect Speer found work with the NS Party, came to the attention of Hitler and designed the Zeppelin Field Stadium;
• After the death of Fritz Todt; Speer becomes Reich Minister of Armaments in 1942;
• Speer's Final Statement at the Nuremberg Tribunal reveals his strategy of total cooperation with his captors
• Former assistant and friend Rudolf Wolters disapproves of Speer's increasing harshness toward Hitler and insistence on piling guilt upon himself, and breaks the relationship;
• Speer goes out of his way [scroll to June 15, 1977] to support the Jewish fable of extermination of Jews in concentration camps;
• Hermann Giesler points out lies and/or total contadictions told by Speer about Adolf Hitler in times when he (Giesler) was present;
• Speer seemed totally bent on regaining the respect of the world by professing total disrespect for everything about the Third Reich he had served.

May 15, 2014

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Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the October 18-22, 1941 dinner table conversation and monologues by the German Leader, taken down in shorthand by trusted aide, attorney Heinrich Heim.  Topics included in this episode:

• Britain's oligarchic, money-grubbing politicans don't represent the people;
• Germany needs to remain autarkic and independent from British imports even after the war;
• Need to improve standardization of construction and building products;
• Christianity and Bolshevism, and their relationship to St. Paul of Tarsus;
• Hitler identifies himself as "Prussian," compares Berlin favorably to Munich;
• Hitler: "I wish to be a builder." Monuments outlast the battles that inspired them.

The edition of Hitler's Table Talk 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.

May 5, 2014

Carolyn's guest is Margaret Huffstickler, a Germanophile and singer who tells us about the most popular song of WWII, Lili Marleen, and how English translations don't do it justice. We hear 3 versions of the song. Also discussed:

• Is Putin "helping his people" by signing into law the punishment of 5-years imprisonment for denying the findings of the Nuremberg IMT in Russia;
• Rialto Unified School District under fire for assigning a holocaust debate research paper to eigth-graders;
• A closer look at the European Knights Project and its promotion of "national" nationalism for European states, while dismissing White Nationalism;
• Famous and beloved women of great accomplishment who did not have children;
• Rodney Martin's refusal to honor Fredrick Toben's request to remove his name from Rodney's ANA-ANN Board of Directors "Bio."

Feb. 17, 2014

Fredrick Töben of Adelaide, Australia talks about the German-Jewish relationship and his experience with German law courts. Imprisoned  three times for variations of “holocaust denial,” he is the author of several books, including Fight or Flight: The Personal face of Revisionism(2003), 40 Days in Tehran (2007), 50 Days in Gaol (2009), and Arbeit Macht Frei (2010). Other highlights:

• Revisionist Gerd Ittner is imprisoned in Bayreuth, Germany and can see the Opera House from his prison window;
• Toben’s letter in response to Joe Gandleman’s claim that the Internet makes “holocaust denial” too easy;
• Richard Wagner‘s Germanic world view cannot be contained or controlled by Jewish futile charges of “racist” and “anti-Semitic”;
• Toben also responds to Robert Zaretsky’s article in The Forward about Martin Heidegger and his “problematic” National Socialist beliefs – were they real or opportunistic;
• Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks” (Schwarzen Hefte) will be published in Germany in March and some leaked phrases are already causing disturbance: Was he anti-Semitic? (horrors).

Gerd Ittner's prison address: JVA St. George; Markgiafon[?] allee 49; D-95448 Bayreuth, Germany

Nov. 23, 2013

More of the art in the Cornelius Gurlitt collection has been put online, while a task-force, under Uwe Hartmann, has been set up to investigate the provenance of each one. Organized jewry is howling in protest because this could take a long time, and could prove much of their tale of “Nazi theft from Jews” to be wrong.  Cornelius will immediately get back over 300 of the artworks as rightly belonging to him, bringing more criticism from jews.

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By Carolyn Yeager

The World Jewry network presses on with its goal to get the most recent find of "lost art" into the hands of Jews by playing the holocaust card. They're hitting on all cylinders now: Brute-force Nazi looting from helpless Jewish victims forced to flee for their lives while relatives who didn't get away were "gassed" in Auschwitz. For Jews, the melodrama never goes too far.

Nov. 11, 2013

The latest case of ” lost art found” is being opportunistically propagandized in the jewsmedia as “Nazi looting” and used in the current Jewish campaign warning of “the rise  of antisemitism.”

• 1400 lost or “stolen” artworks have been discovered in a Munich apartment and Jews are clamoring to claim them as belonging originally to their families;
• The Augsberg, Bavaria district attorney tried to keep it quiet as he investigated for tax fraud, and has been criticized for “covering up”;
• Some of the artworks were seized by the U.S. Military in 1945, but after an investigation were returned to Hildebrandt Gurlitt as the rightful owner in 1950;
• In 1956, many of these works toured the U.S. in an exhibition, with a catalog featuring the works, and there were no claims to ownership made;
• The U.S. State Dept. has pressured Germany’s Federal Govt. to intervene into the Bavarian Prosecutor’s Office and force the publishing of details of the artworks (to please the Jews);
• Hitler rightly said that this new art was international, politically subversive and sold by Jews, and he had it removed from German museums;
• Dissension among Jews about the “new anti-Semitism,” which is described as “denial that Israel has a right to exist” or just “hatred of Israel.”