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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
KInda like erading lyrics from songs but without the music,
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This review is from: My new order,
This book is a collection of Hitler's speeches from 1918-1939. Not all, but enough to get a good idea of his speech style and consistent use of "simple ideas, repeated often." It also has excerpts from newspapers of the era, commenting on some of the speeches.It is well worth the price if you are interested in either Hitler's oratorical methodology or in learning more about what the Nazis believed, and what they stood against.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Hitler's Speeches,
This review is from: My New Order (Hardcover)
I have a copy of this book, publication date, 1941. Its a compilation of Hitler's public speeches from the early days through 1941. Refreshingly, the compilers were not selective in choosing which speeches to include nor did they drown the reader in opinion, commentary, or the kind of snide Liberal mealy-mouth one commonly finds in books about Hitler (Heitler). There is some historical background info provided before each speech.
If you would like to read what Hitler said in his many speeches throughout his political career without predjudicial commentary, this is the book to read. You can learn what Hitler actually said, not what Liberal historians say he said.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A Profusely-Indexed Source on Hitler's Speeches (1918-1941),
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This review is from: My New Order (Hardcover)
My 5-star rating for this book is solely for its historical value. Of all the works I have read on this subject (see Peczkis Listmania: THIRD REICH FUHRER...), this one is the most profusely cross-referenced and indexed. In fact, it has five indexes--one on Hitler's Major Policies and Ideas, one on Treaties, Pacts, and Pledges, one on Arguments and Justifications, one on Speeches in Crucial Moments, and, finally, one a General Index. The time period spanned is 1918 through mid-late 1941 (not very long after the start of Operation Barbarossa, when the hoped-for rapid collapse of the Soviet Armies failed to materialize.)
This extensive indexing enables the scholar to gain easy access to Hitler's views on many different subjects. Besides obvious ones, this includes arcane information, such as Hitler's mentions of Manchuria, or Queen Elizabeth of England. Relative importance of topics is also evident. For example, there are only four entries on Freemasonry against dozens of entries on Jews. The content of this single volume overlaps that discussed elsewhere (see the Peczkis reviews of THE SPEECHES OF ADOLF HITLER - April 1922 - August 1939 (2 Volume Set) and Hitler's words,). Owing to the breadth of information presented in this work, I touch only on a few subjects. Hitler was no marginal "mad leader". In the plebiscite of August 19, 1934, Hitler got 88.1% of the German people's votes. (p. 286). [The reader must remember that many of those who voted against Hitler did not disagree with his policies. They disliked his person or his socio-political background.] As a National Socialist, Hitler wanted there to be no social classes among the German people. (p. 23, 764). The Nazis observed May Day. (p. 765). Although it at times received aid from both rejected systems, National Socialism was both anti-Communist and anti-capitalist. Nor was this just a veiled form of anti-Semitism. Hitler scorned capitalists, explicitly whether they were Jewish capitalists or Christian capitalists. (p. 16, 765). In common with Communists and other socialists, Hitler dismissed the western democracies as ones where the real rulers are "gigantic capitalists", as represented by "bourgeois parties", and where the common people were sought for votes but otherwise disregarded. (p. 881). Hitler asserted that the social-welfare and workers'-protection provisions under National Socialism were hated by the western capitalists because they might give ideas to the west's working classes. (pp. 764-765). When Hitler attacked Poland in 1939, he and the other Nazis vilified Poland as the puppet of England, the illegitimate child of Versailles, a seasonal state, a nation of incompetents ruled by corrupt leaders, a people whose only achievement was the copying of German culture, etc. Earlier, however, Hitler had implicitly praised the resurrection of Poland as an example for Germany to follow (p. 178, 312), affirmed the fact that Poland and Germany must peacefully coexist (p. 234), and that Poland was populous enough to expect, and possess, access to the sea. (p. 520).
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