Hitler's Table Talk is the title belonging to certain impromptu conversations and statements made by Adolf Hitler, which were recorded by various individuals and later published in several languages.
The most important record of Hitler's remarks, usually at dinner with other Nazi leaders, was made at the instigation of Martin Bormann, who edited them from notes taken by Heinrich Heim, from July 1941 to March 1942. Subsequently Henry Picker took notes from 21 March 1942 until 31 July 1942. In 1951 Picker published his version of the conversations in the volume Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier, which was published in the original German. Bormann's edited transcript Die Bormann Vermerke was published in French by François Genoud in 1952. Hugh Trevor-Roper published the first English edition the following year and revised it in later editions.
According to historian Richard Carrier, the English edition is actually a translation of Genoud's French instead of the German original. Carrier mtains that no one "who quotes this text is quoting what Hitler actually said."[1] Many of the quotations used to assert Hitler's anti-Christianity are from the Genoud-Trevor-Roper translation, which Carrier rejects. Carrier maintains that the words attributed to Adolf Hitler are actually theological criticisms of Roman Catholicism, and that Hitler was still a Christian, or at very least religious. Carrier states, "It is clear that Picker and Jochmann have the correct text and Trevor-Roper's is entirely untrustworthy."[1]
Albert Speer, who was the Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany, confirmed the authenticity of Henry Picker's table talk transcripts in his 1976 memoirs.[2]
Some of Hitler's conversations were also recorded by Alfred Rosenberg's official Werner Koeppen, who had been instructed to keep Rosenberg informed of Hitler's thoughts by forwarding records of his conversations. Most of these were deliberately destroyed in 1945 but David Irving located a record of Hitler's remarks from September to November 1941.
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Three editions of this work have been published in Britain.
   | Printed Version, ISBN 1-929631-05-7 - Amazon.com: Hitler's Table Talk: Adolf Hitler, Norman Cameron, R. H. Stevens, Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper: Books |
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