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March 20, 2014
Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the July 21st-28th, 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:
- Graditude to the Jesuits for the Counter-Reformation and its Baroque architecture, leaving the Gothic behind;
- Admiration for Mussolini and the glory of Italian art-architecture, superior to the French;
- Martin Luther credited with replacing the many regional dialects with the great German language;
- English-German industrial competition and their comparison in the arts and culture;
- The merit of the German soldier, the prestige of the SS, and the weakness of the WWI command;
- How to control the Eastern regions with soldier-farmers as colonists;
- Wrong to exterminate the intelligentsia, but a class system is intolerable –cannot despise the man who sweeps the streets.
Image: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini walking in front of saluting military in Venice, as Hitler first arrives in Italy in 1934. (click 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.