- 416 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
After Hitler's death, several posthumous books were published which purported to be the verbatim words of the Nazi leader â two of the most important of these documents were Hitler's Table Talk and The Testament of Adolf Hitler. This ground-breaking book provides the first in-depth analysis and critical study of Hitler's so-called table talks and their history, provenance, translation, reception, and usage.
Based on research in public and private archives in four countries, the book shows when, why, where, how, by and for whom the table talks were written, how reliable the texts are, and how historians should approach and use them. It reveals the crucial role of the mysterious Swiss Nazi Francois Genoud, as well as some very poor judgement from several famous historians in giving these dubious sources more credibility than they deserved. The book sets the record straight regarding the nature of these volumes as historical sources â proving inter alia The Testament to be a clever forgery â and aims to establish a new consensus on their meaning and impact on historical research into Hitler and the Third Reich.
This path-breaking historical investigation will be of considerable interest to all researchers and historians of the Nazi era.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The table talks: how were they made and how have historians used them?
- 2 A scholarly scandal: the publication of Henry Pickerâs Hitlers Tischgespräche in 1951
- 3 François genoud and his table talk manuscript
- 4 The Heim proof pages: how a revolutionary discovery and its implications went unnoticed
- 5 The publication of Hitlerâs Table Talk and the role of Hugh Trevor-Roper
- 6 The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the last table talk or a clever forgery?
- 7 Werner Jochmann and the Monologe im FĂźhrerhauptquartier edition: the publication of Genoudâs âoriginalâ manuscript
- 8 Conclusions
- Bibliography and sources
- Appendix
- Index