Martin Bormann (1900–1945)

It seems to be accepted that this book actually and accurately provides a record of what Mr. Hitler spoke about with his closest associates, ministers, friends, visiting dignitaries, and staff in the confines of his home, as recorded at the time, and the largest part (95% or so) of the record-(07/05/1941- Sept. 1942) was made while Germany was winning the war having conquered western Europe and having pushed the Russians out of Moscow and back to Leningrad. The point being that Mr. Hitler was always in an environment wherein he had no reason to fabricate or to exaggerate his statements. No person is more vilified in western society than is Mr. Hitler. He is the personification of evil and no appellation carries more negative weight than the word "Nazi". In the privacy of his own home what did he talk about, what were his concerns, who were his enemies? What were his basic concerns and principles of life.

Mr. Hitler is far more vehement in his denunciation of Christians than he is of Jews and he never says anything about killing either group - yes, sending them "to the East" and to concentration camps, but absolutely nothing about killing any group en masse or otherwise.

Likes: English,Croats, Estonians, Italy, Il Duce, Antonescu,construction of roads, Julian the Apostate,

Dislikes: religion, Christianity, Catholics, priests, Bolsheviks,Lawyers,

Statements of Note:

I cannot tell you how greatly I suffered during the Great War. I passionatley loved soldiering. (p.5.)

When I meet children I think of them as my own. (p.7.)

Abortion - But does one know what one loses by limitation of births - that remains the engima.

The respect that youth owes to maturity.If this respect is lacking a man falls below the level of the animal.

Whoever lives outside of poverty cannot really become aware of it.

All gifted students must be educated at state expense and no door should be closed to them. (p.19.)

What complicates in Vienna is the racial diversity. It contains the descendants of all the races of old Austria and thus it is that everyone receives on a different antenna and transmits on his own wavelength. (p.20.)

War is nothing but the struggle for the riches of nature. (p.21.)

The dogma of religion gets worn away by advances in science and it will have to make more and more concessions and its myths are gradually crumbling.(p.25.)

The basis of Jewish commercial policy is to make it incomprehensible to a normal brain. (p.28.) For a distinguished economist the thing is to pour out ideas in complicated meanderings and to use terms of Sibylline incomprehensibity.

The first thing, above all else, is to get rid of the Jew. Without that it will be useless to clean the Augean stables. The Jew, that destroyer, we shall drive out. (pp. 28-29.)

Two scourges of the modern world are Christianity and Bolshevism. (p.32.)… (mehr)