Hitler's Table Talk
One of the most significant documents of recent history, Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944 records the private, off the record, informal conversations of a man, who, more than anyone else, came close to destroying the Western world. Here is a startling account of Hitler freely talking about his enemies, his friends, his ambitions, his failures, his secret dreams - voicing his thoughts to his intimate associates as the sun set at the end of each day of the war. We see here a conversational Hitler letting down his guard to his trusted henchmen. Miraculously, Martin Bormann persuaded Hitler to let these talks be taken down by a team of specially picked shorthand writers. Hitler had intended, after his infamous tyranny, to use these notes as source material for the books he planned to write about the glory of the "Thousand-Year Reich." Now they have come to us, indisputably authentic, a raw, fascinating, unretouched look at the inner recesses of the mind of Adolf Hitler. Der F眉hrer's mind was crude and narrow; he had little education and, as we see here, no humanity; but we can also see that he was (as he himself knew) a political genius, a "terrible simplifier," a man who, with no equipment except his own will power, personality and ideas, attemted to bring mankind into a terrible darkness. As Trevor-Roper says in his brilliant introduction..."if we are to discover the mind of Hitler, we must penetrate behind the thick curtains of superficial evidence which conceal it - the repellant character which formed its expression, and for which no power of thought can compensate, and the unreliable intermediaries who have commented upon it. We must go directly to Hitler's personal utterances: not indeed to his letters and speeches - these, so valuable, are too public, too formalized for such purposes - to his secret conversations, his table talk." It is here, in Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944, that the mind of this extraordinary historical figure is remarkably revealed. Download:
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