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- Title
Hitler redivivus: „Hitlers Tischgespräche” und „Monologe im Führerhauptquartier” - eine kritische Untersuchung.
- Authors
Nilsson, Mikael
- Abstract
This pioneering study of the famous Hitler table talks - "Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier" (1951) and "Monologe im Führerhauptquartier" (1980) - uses a lot of previously unknown or overlooked sources to show that historians have been much too uncritical when citing these documents. The texts, the originals of which are now lost, were heavily edited and cannot be cited as being Hitler's words ad verbatim. They are not more reliable than comparable notes. The notes were written down almost entirely from memory after the conversations they record, often finished long after the first drafts were written. Text was added during the editing process, and the notes contain statements that Hitler most likely did not make. Historians citing these texts are not quoting Hitler, but the words of the authors of the notes.
- Subjects
HITLER, Adolf, 1889-1945; HISTORICAL source material; HISTORIOGRAPHY; QUOTATIONS; CITATION analysis
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2019, Vol 67, Issue 1, p105
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/vfzg-2019-0004