Conversations with Hitler
Conversations with Hitler (German: Gespräche mit Hitler), also translated as Voice of Destruction in American title, and Hitler Speaks in British title, was a controversial book written by a German politician and anti-Hitler activist Hermann Rauschning that claims to record the author's conversations with Adolf Hitler between 1932 and 1934.
Publication in France
[edit]It was published in 1939 in France. At the beginning of the war, the French dropped leaflets on the Western Front containing excerpts from Rauschning's writings but with little response.[1] Despite the initial doubt over its authenticity, the work won great popularity and its inaccuracies had not been widely known until the 1980s.[2]
Literary impact on other works
[edit]The work was widely cited by many scholars, such as Hannah Arendt in her The Origins of Totalitarianism and Richard Pipes in his Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime.
See also
[edit]- Hitler Diaries, another falsified work about Adolf Hitler
References
[edit]- ↑ Andrzejewski, Marek Hermann Rauschning. Biographische Skizze (Hermann Rauschning biographical sketch) in Gornig Gilbert (ed.), German-Polish meeting on science and culture, Societas Physicae Experimentalis, Series of Gdansk Scientific Society, Volume 5, 2001, pp. 170–185
- ↑ Bedürftig, Friedemann; Zentner, Christian (1997). The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. New York: Da Capo Press. p. 1162. ISBN 0-306-80793-9.
- Nilsson, Mikael (2024). Christianity in Hitler's Ideology: The Role of Jesus in National Socialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009314961. ISBN 978-1-009-31495-4.
