Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944

By Adolf Hitler

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Social Sciences

From 1941 into 1944, at the urging of his secretary Martin Bormann, aides took shorthand notes on the monologues Adolf Hitler delivered to his inner circle at his military headquarters. The talk ranges over war, religion, culture and his views of friends and enemies. This English translation, by Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens and introduced by historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, first came out in 1953. Scholars such as Richard Carrier have questioned its reliability, since the English text came from a French version, not the German notes.

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• Jordan Peterson: “...I was reading a book called Hitler's Table Talk, which was a collection of his spontaneous utterances at mealtimes collected over about three years. It really affected my reading of it because the number of times he used parasite metaphors really stuck in my mind.”