Description
Compiled by Heinrich Heim, Henry Picker, and Martin Bormann. Introduced and Annotated by R. P. Tomlinson. New edition with 618 new footnotes contextualising references, events, and personalities mentioned in the text. Also contains a new introduction and full index of topics.
The full and complete edition of Adolf Hitler’s private dinner conversations, which reveal the true thoughts of the Nazi leader-as opposed to his public pronouncements as a politician-on a vast range of topics.
Taken surreptitiously at lunch and dinner tables by his personal assistants, these conversations relate Hitler’s personal opinions on religion, economics, science, technology, the environment, society, history, art and much more besides.
The manuscript-recovered directly from Martin Bormann’s widow at the end of the war, (a partial copy of which is in the US Archives)-provides one of the most important insights into the man who created the Third Reich, and is invaluable for any person wishing to gain a greater understanding into this tragic period of history.
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: July to December 1941
PART TWO: January to September 1942
PART THREE: June 1943
PART FOUR: March to November 1944
Index
About the authors:
Heinrich Heim (1900-1988) was a NSDAP Minister’s Council member and party lawyer who worked as an aide to Hitler’s personal assistant Martin Bormann. He was tasked with keeping notes of Hitler’s conversations from July 1941 to mid-March 1942, and August-September 1942.
Henry Picker (1912-1988) was a lawyer who was appointed to the legal staff attached to Hitler’s headquarters in 1942. became 1942 became a senior executive and legal staff member in the Führer Headquarters. He, along with Heim, was responsible for taking the notes of Hitler’s conversations from March to August 1942.
Martin Bormann (1900-1945) was a senior NSDAP official and Head of the Party Chancellery in Berlin. As such, he acted as Hitler’s personal secretary. He was responsible for taking the notes of Hitler’s conversations for the periods not covered by Heim and Picker.
668 pages
ISBN Softcover
978-1-915645-14-2
ISBN Hardcover
978-1-915645-14-2
