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Hitler speaks;: A series of political conversations with Adolf Hitler on his real aims,

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This book is also published in the English language under the title: THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION.

Covering events mostly from the early to the middle 1930's, this book fills an important gap in the development of Hitler's thinking. It comes after MEIN KAMPF (1923-1925) and the then-unpublished HITLER'S SECOND BOOK (1928), but before HITLER'S TABLE TALK.

Rauschning elaborates on Hitler's attitudes towards Poland. It becomes obvious that the Fuhrer never saw the 1934 Polish-German Nonaggression Pact as anything more than a temporary expedient, and that he never seriously considered accepting Poland as an ally against the Soviet Union (p. 119). This adds refutation against the claim that WWII had been triggered, in part, by "Polish intransigence".

A common Nazi anti-Semitic theme is the one about Jews being vermin (presumably fit for nothing other than extermination). Interestingly, Nazis also thought that way of Poles. Albert Forster, the Gauleiter of Danzig (Gdansk), referred to Poles as lice (p. 110). (So did Joseph Goebbels, in his diaries).

Rauschning elaborates on Hitler's obsession with Jews. He believed that it was driven in part by Hitler's fear of his partial Jewish ancestry (p. 235).

In his MEIN KAMPF and SECOND BOOK, Hitler had vilified the Jews, and presented Slavic lands as ones to be conquered for lebensraum purposes and filled with German settlers. But what exactly was to be done with the Jews and the Slavs was left to the imagination of the listener. Not so here! Hitler makes direct threats against both Jews and Slavs as biological entities. He speaks of using both Jewish property and Jewish lives as hostages in response to the anti-German actions of other nations (pp. 88-89). (This foreshadows his infamous January 1939 statement, in which he said that, if "international Jewry" caused another war, he would destroy Europe's Jews in response.) He first speaks of resettling Czechs in Siberia (p. 38) and then, repeatedly complaining about the great fecundity of the Slavic peoples (p. 33, 137), proposes to solve this problem through such measures as keeping men and women separated for years (p. 137). He quips: "There are many ways, systematical and comparatively painless, or at any rate bloodless, of causing undesirable races to die out." (p. 138). (In time, the Nazis did implement both active and passive genocidal techniques against the conquered Slavs, as discussed by Raphael Lemkin. The Nazis also worked to develop mass-sterilization methods, preferably ones that could be used covertly against the intended victims).

In this book, Hitler develops his anti-Christian themes, but not as strongly as in the later HITLER'S TABLE TALK. In this work, Hitler refers to Christianity as an effeminate, Jewish invention (p. 49, 235). He trusts that the dogma of the Vicarious Suffering of Christ will give way to acceptance of the new Leader-legislator, who will liberate the faithful from the burden of free will (p. 225). Hitler also clearly exhibits the views of a moral relativist: "There is no such thing as truth, either in the moral or in the scientific sense." (p. 223).

Nazism is often misrepresented as a form of extreme nationalism. In fact, Hitler believed that the concept of the nation was a political expedient of democracy and Liberalism (p. 232), and was just as outdated as the concept of the dynastic feudal state that it had replaced. He wanted the concept of the nation replaced by "purely biological values". (p. 233).

Nazism is also commonly misrepresented as a form of capitalism. In actuality, Hitler scorned both Communism and capitalism, just as he had done earlier in MEIN KAMPF and the SECOND BOOK. In the present work, he commented: "The classless society of the Marxists, he [Hitler] contended, was madness. Order always meant class order. But the democratic notion of a class order based on the moneybag was equally mad. A genuine aristocracy was not born out of the accidentally successful speculations of bright businessmen." (p. 39).

This is a review of HITLER SPEAKS: A SERIES OF POLITICAL CONVERSATIONS WITH ADOLF HITLER ON HIS REAL AIMS by Hermann Rauschning. This book was originally published in 1939 by Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., of London. Mine is a 1940 impression which lacks an index, bibliography or annotations.

Rauschning was a wealthy agriculturalist from Danzig who achieved a degree of political prominence criticizing the Poles for their expulsions of ethnic Germans from territories ceded to the new Polish government by the Versailles Treaty. Rauschning described their treatment as brutal and complained about Polish internment of ethnic Germans in such places as Szczypiorno where he said 8,000 men, women and children including 24 Lutheran clergymen, were kept for months under harsh conditions without any access to medical care. Gustav Stresemann complained bitterly to the League of Nations in Lugano about this and other incidents on December 15, 1928.

Rauschning became President of the Farmer's Association and came to believe that the National Socialists (Nazis) were Germany's only real hope. He began to advocate the incorporation of the Free City (of Danzig) into Germany and became President of the Danzig Teachers' Association in 1932, the year before the Nazis won control of the government in Germany and Danzig's city government. This put Rauschning in charge of the Free City as he became President of Danzig's Senate.

It was in this capacity that he met Adolf Hitler. How many times he met Hitler and how well he knew him are the subjects of controversy today. Rauschning claimed over 100 meetings with the Fuhrer and affirmed that he was in a position to knew his views firsthand. Critics like Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review, however, promote conclusions from a Swiss researcher named Wolfgang Haenel, that Rauschning only met Hitler four times and then only briefly and never alone. Furthermore, Haenel claims that Rauschning plagiarized some of his dialogues from Hitler from other sources.

It should noted, however, that Mark Weber and the Institute for Historical Review are notorious for their efforts to deny the historical accuracy of the Holocaust and the "conference" at which Herr Haenel made his revelations was devoted to this kind of "revision." Weber's main concern with Rauschning's book seems to be that its critical of Hitler and makes him look bad.

Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, however, states that Rauschning's prewar observations coincide closely enough with Hitler's subsequent statements and actions to confirm their general accuracy and validity. Historian Eberhard Jaeckel reached a similar conclusion that HITLER SPEAKS is a reliable guide to Hitler's view of the world although it may not be a perfect verbatim record. Historian David Redles, it should be noted, was critical of Haenel's method which seemed to consist of looking for similarities in wording from other books and then concluding that Rausching was copying them if there was any resemblance whatsoever. Nobody seems to know what Herr Haenel's qualifications are either, a further cause for concern when Alan Bullock, Joachim Fest and Robert Payne find Rauschning to be reliable enough to consult.

Written from exile, Rauschning's book is quite critical of Hitler. When the Nazis began arresting Catholic piests and depriving German Jews in the Free City of their citizenship rights Rauschning stepped up his support of constitutionalism and his criticism of Nazi policies. In 1936, he was forced to flee for his life. After passing through Switzerland, France and the United Kingdom, he purchased a farm near Portland, Oregon and remained there until his death in 1982.

The tone of HITLER SPEAKS is quite critical. Rauschning writes that "Hitler and his movment are the apocalyptic riders of world annihilation." Pretty strong stuff for 1939, but right on the mark as WW II and the Holocaust demonstrated. Hitler appears in Rauschning's eyes as a "coward", a "racist" and a borderline hysteric who sees race as the basis of everything even nations and great religions.

Despite the controversy about Hermann Rauschning, he writes well and he leaves no doubt in the reader's mind what kind of Fuhrer Hitler became. I liked HITLER SPEAKS and gave it five stars. If you're interested in this period of history, the Holocaust, WW II, National Socialism, Germany, Weimar Republic, or the Fuhrer himself, you'll find this book interesting and useful. Don't be deterred by the IHR's attempted hatchet job, which makes up much of the Wikipedia article on Rauschning, by the way. If you can find a copy of HITLER SPEAKS in good condition, buy it.

You'll be glad you did.

I have only just bought the book so am commenting on the reviews indirectly. The tragedy of the Jewish position was less brought about by the old order jews whom collaborator Stern was treacherous ("We have no interest in the fate of the old order" (Jews) he said yet pointed the finger at them)than the US/UK power-broker financiers and their insistant conspiracies.Stern however capitalised on it all as did US financier Jews.

Israel was formed in 1933-4 by German activity and Germany transferred acquiescent Jews and zionists there by the thousands,later built its first bank and traded with it through WW11.

For Britain to get "Nazi favoring" American help more than the broken promises and aged weaponry. manoeuvered Britain into a desperate begging which required a compliance as the essence of such agreement. That essence, that compliance was as in WW1 agrement to the Jewish powerbrokers demand that Britain was to hand Palestine over as a Jewish state. That was absolute condition. America in the wars had little to do with caring about the allies.

FDR was under Jewish financier domination and on the demand of the US Jewish hierarchy was sending refugee Jews back to their fate. The reason, and this is the essence of the word holocaust...(blood sacrifice by jews, not Goys) was self seeking and zionist New Order driven.

In this situation the Jewish reasoning was stated as "we will gain far more by their suffering". Greenbaum added "One cow in Palestine is worth all the Jews in Poland" and further ""If I am asked, "Could you give from the UJA moneys to rescue Jews, 'I say, NO! and I say again NO!"

Izaak Greenbaum -- head of Jewish Agency Rescue Committee February 18, 1943...addressed to the Zionist Executive Council.

You could escape to Palestine only, nowhere else.A comparatively small number found their way into Hollywood as history tells.

Hitler is not looking like the only funnel web spider in the garden.... yes?

Americans and American companies were heavy investors in the German military materiel but that changed overnight, was outlawed, when Palestine was condemned to be invaded by Khazar Jews and zionists.

Khazars even in the most fertile imagination have never had any inhabitation of Palestine other than as expats...nor were they ever Hebrews, these Georgians and their descendants took on a form of Judaism around 680 ad for political gain and financial profits.Their claims are a fraud and a farce but that wasn't Hitler's concern.Out of sight out of mind, yet still "contributing".

Well before "nacht krystal" Jews, organised world wide, had declared and enacted a sometimes violent boycott on German people goods and services, which lasted for years to which Germany replied with one night of retaliation.This is well reported after FOI compliance.

The Times reported in 1934 "Jews declare war on Germany" and certainly it was the the stage 1 sequel to WW1,which had been initiated by a freemasonic assassin (they since 1774-6 being the property of de Rothschild, the great grand father of the current, never audited, owners in chief of all Central Banks (>(57%)).Hitler was not in the absolute control of Germany in 1933, however he was well aware of the Jewish fianacier-Industrialist plans for world domination which are currently landing on the runway after their G.F.C. was so successful.

Hitler, a fan of jews as a younger man, turned on them particularly over their pressing for WW11,step 2 in their war plans and because of their financial plots...There was another major issue however. Russia, overloaded with Jewish Bureauocracy since Alex 11 favored them with enforced education whilst non Jewish Russians generally had since 1917 been ruled by Jewish despots.The non Jews could no longer avail themselves or get a place nor were they forced to get education as were the Jews.

Alex 111 knew the pre-1905 history and that of Alex 11 and it was Alex 111 who dealt with the surge of educated power with huge disparity between Jews and other Russians,and the Tsar's fall out with de Rothschild.

Zionist symbols were on the walls of the Tsars ghastly execution cellar and some Talmudic verse.This gave deRothschild who financed the revolution through Jacob Schiff of Loebs to the tune of $47M, the Russian banking system which it has to this day...controlling cumutively the politics and affairs of Russia USA Europe and Britain from 1917 onwards.

Hitler was vastly more intelligent than the US President and let him know it when castigated by him over Poland as well as scorning the hypocrisy he was given. To 1939 the Russian despots were executing Ukranians at the rate of 10,000 each week and the Ukranians well knew this was a genocide of them by the ruling Jews who had, incidentally. changed their names prior to the 1917 massacres.

One might ruminate over the fact that that both National Socialism and Communism were separate inventions of two Jews. Was the conspiracy to murder the Jews actually fomented by American Jews of the NWO Banker-Industrialist conspiracy?...or simply capitalised on later? is something to ponder. Certainly Stern and his "New Order" turned over thousands of escapee Jews to the Gestapo and the IDF committed war crimes in like manner in 1967.

In a few vicious sentences people and "history" condemn Hitler as paranoic,evil personified,that his focus was obsessively anti-Jew but in fact he was right on the ball politically. His major concern was that Russia would expand and take over Europe and he was not going to stand for it.As Hilter worked into power however crazy you think he was, he was well aware his efforts, unless rapidly enacted (Blitzkreig) would ultimately stand or fall on Jewish finance as did Germany throughout WW1.Jewish financier reparations from WW1 had been crippling yet the financiers funded the actions of Germany in preparing for war...

To offset the inevitable withdrawl of finance as WW11 was just a stepping stone to the abominations and atrocities of today he decided to make his own arrangements with the Jews...at first to buy their assets for a song and later to simply strip them of their assets. A deal was made where they could recover some of their own money in trade with Germany, thus the first Israel bank being built in Palestine by Germany to facilitate the transactions.

Later deRothschild , Mayer Lansky and other criminals like him laundered money into Israel and the practice is still common. deRothschild spent for him peanuts for us a fortune in money on public buildings there and there is notable Masonic creed architecture in public buildings as well as a huge street monument to freemasonry.

No one later so "horrified and outraged" was anything but well aware as governments of the situation yet did nothing to prevent the Shoa and there's a whole other story there. What ultimately happened was that the USA imported German science and scientists and war criminals for its own evil ends (see MK Ultra and Operation Paperclip" for examples), which are still being enacted.

Britain in 1948 handed over title to the zionists for 56% of Israel,the zionists already owning 3%.Palestine was not to be 100% stolen from Palestinians and given to the Khazar descendants at that stage.This drove the Palestinians to reactive grief and the Israeli collaborator-terrorists to vicious terrorism and retaliation against Britain attacks which abandoned even the slightest principle of decency,

Stern and his zionist terrorists had initiated and conspired with the German military to route Britain in the ME during WW11.The Zionist Israelis now commenced a reign of terror against the British and any Jew standing near them deserved to die, Stern made that point of Jews who were murdered in the Hotel David bombing.

In 1948 Israel commenced the brutal Palestinian genocide, the Nakbar, but assassinations of Palestinians had already been done...ben Gurion made it clear all Palestine would fall and that has been the process ever since...millions of Arabs have been murdered and huge numbers dispossessed.

"Ben-Gurion" was a faked name as with most Israeli PM's including Netenyahu..ben Gurion was was actually David Gruen as was the perhaps Psychotic Shimmon Peres actually Shimmon Persky, Netenyahu is Mylekowski, and so on and on... )

Against the US Veto the UN has no power even if it wished to enforce the numerous resolutions against Israel's relentless crimes against humanity. A thorough reading of the "USS Liberty" travesty and the gestapo style murder of 1000 Egyptian prisoners might come as a rude awakening to stalwart zionist apologists.

Reading Ostrovsky's "By Way of Deception" and companion book will expose a conspiract oif vast proportions in the myopic viewing of the evil deeds and intentions of Israel, Mossad and the US Presidency (as opposed to the USA)...and the naiivety and stupidity of the CIA in dealings with Mossad

There's a lot more western conspiracy than my little pitter patter here...and I don't applaud Hitler or approve of his methods though Blitzkreig could have been more humane (to some!!) than a dragged out war, The USA has used it in Iraq in particular and failed miserably as usual but has murdered, through sanctions and actions, some 2 million Iraqis since 1991. Now it plans to predominently use their improved V-1's called "drones" to massacre dissenters of the "axis of evil"...the countries who's banking systems were not owned by the Central Bankers.Three remain in the ME, Syria, Iran and Saudi.Elsewhere is Nth. Korea and China.

Though not supporting Hitler nor condemning "Jews" there were undeniably zionist conspirators manoeuvering Hitler and the allies into war.The war was disgusting and Hitler should have had more humanity, however communism was his enemy,he wished to recapture German might and lost lands (and their benefits)and at the same time the powerbroker financiers wanted war and so....war began.

The propaganda obfuscating the facts of the 20's 30's and 40's is stifling from so many sources the truth is well hidden, Since then doctrinaire propaganda groups including the ADL, CFR, B'nai Brith and numerous other doctrinaire zionist propaganda units financed by the USA and other even less savory 'western' sources have done their job of deceiving mankind,well.

So much so was Hitler demonised beyond rationality that I began research.You might do also and comprehend better that WW11 was always going to happen.It was a corporate conspiracy for world domintion initiated by Mayer Amschel Bauer, son of a terrorist who'd settled in the Frankfort ghetto and hung the identifying red shield and six pointed star outside his shop.

From that came "de Roths-child" (Red-Shield)and de Rothschild's plot with the 12 most influential Jewish bankers of Europe in 1770.The Gestapo found that Hitler was probably descnded from a profligate deRothschild for whom his grandmother, Maria Schikelgruber, worked...

Quote:

"At that time she was employed as a servant in the home of Baron Rothschild. As soon as the family discovered her pregnancy she was sent back to her home in Spital where Alois was born. If it is true that one of the Rothschilds is the real father of Alois Hitler, it would make Adolf a quarter Jew"

"it gets curiouser and curiuoser" ,said Alice, looking at her shoes.

Hitler was the chosen one, having dedicated his life to the service of the German people after he made a late WW1 "pact with god", as he put it, that if his sight was restored he wouldfulfill that dedication.

He was pitted against the illuminati, the ultra powerful Jewish worshippers of Lucifer which had created the Central banking Empire.This is still carried on as is Freemasonic powerbroking through the US Presidents who must be also satisfactory to the Bilderbergers and Israel.

Was he madder or more foul than them? or those who created the Iraq invasion after 911 knowing they had no reason other than it was planned before "911" and just neeeded the people's support for their lies? and numerous other crimes of the US Israeli alliance?

Was his real threat his sincerity, foresight in recreating the Empire, his genius, tenacity and organisational skills that are passed-over to not inhibit his demonisation? I say let him rise or fall on truth and now, research and the demanding of hidden documentation...Hopefully "Hitler Speaks" will not have been doctored by the publishers for government ends.

That's something to ponder more than simply come up with trite knee-jerk abuse and vacuuous and derogatory slurs such as "anti-semite" to obstruct research and expose people to sanctions.The freemasonic judiciary and the commercial paranoia of zionist powerbroker organisms throughout the west..and the world has perverted truth and backed that with legal sanction. I can't wait to get also a copy of Table-Talk also to learn more of the enigmatic Hitler..but those I have seen are ludicrously expensive. Cheers

Dr. Hermann Rauschning was indeed a minor official in the Danzig NSDAP, who fell out with the party and escaped - eventually to the United States - on the eve of World War II. With a collaborator, he published this book ("The Voice of Destruction" or "Hitler Speaks") and became a celebrity (he was a speaker at my alma mater, Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa, in 1943). His book was cited by biographers of Hitler and historians of the era, such as William Shirer

(Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1962), Alan Bullock (Hitler, a Study in Tyranny, 1952), Joachim Fest (Hitler, 1973) and Robert Payne (Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, 1973). These books are all still in print and their citation of Rauschning gives an impression of truth. His book is not truth. It is fraudulent.

A Swiss-German schoolteacher, Wolfgang Haenel, proved this beyond a shadow of a doubt in the early 1980's. Anyone with the objectivity and curiosity of a scholar can determine this for himself simply by contacting the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel in Hamburg and obtaining a reprint of the article, by Spiegel editor Wolfgang Malanowski, "Zitat, Zitat, Zitat, und nichts weiter," pp. 92-99, Vol. 37, 1985. Mr. Haenel not only demonstrated that Dr. Rauschning had no private conversations with Hitler, but also discovered the sources of these fanciful stories (e.g., Nietzsche, de Maupassant's The Horla).

Sadly, this revelation came too late for Dr. Richard Pipes's volume, "Russian Under the Bolshevik Regime" (1993), where in the fifth chapter he draws very legitimate parallels between Bolshevism and National Socialism, but unfortunately cites Rauschning's worthless book as proof. The damage that Rauschning inflicted on the life work of such true historians as Dr. Pipes and on the credibility of the students at that little Lutheran school in Iowa cannot be easily effaced.

Hermann Rauschning died in Portland, Oregon, in 1982 (his obituary is in Vol. 7 of Der Speigel for that year). Before he died, he was made aware that Wolfgang Haenel was researching his book. His response was that "Herr Haenel will mich entlarven!" (Mr. Haenel wants to expose me, literally "unmask me") - this response again mentioned in the Spiegel article of 1985.

Works written in the last few years no longer cite Rauschning - only the older books do. And that's positive, because the truth is always what we really want, even if it destroys a cartoon.