"Hitler's Table Talk" Study Hour: Episode 9

May 8, 2014

German panzer division heads toward Moscow in 1941.

Ray Goodwin and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on the October 14-19, 1941 dinner table conversation and monologues by the German Leader, taken down in shorthand by trusted aide Heinrich Heim. Included in this episode:

• Suggestions for improvement of meteorological forecasts;
• Hitler describes the challenges involved in his party's conquest of power;
• Lesson in economics and the cause of inflation;
• The progress made under Antonescu in Rumania, and the great promise of Ukraine;
• May 10, 1940 (start of Western Offensive) compared to June 22, 1941 (start of Barbarossa;

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.