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Yeah Patriotism, not communism defeated the Germans
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Even as I read German pretty well, I got lost here. Who wrote his speeches? I heard he would hold monologues all night for his court, so if this was normal language it must have been difficult for the audience to stay awake 
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The man himself – AH.
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This man should have become an author or something. (Mein Kampf doesn’t count). Imagine the money he would have made
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You forgot his Zweites Buch.
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But that wasn’t released right?
Not when Hitler was alive (hence the name “his secret book”). But you can read it now. 
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Oh… Well what does it cover?
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Hitler’s foreign policy ideas.
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Maybe the problem is that he was. He build a story inside his head and believed it himselves and with the words he convinced others to follow his impossible dream.
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Yep it was fairly secret untill Weinberg from World At Arms published it for him (who happens to be Jewish Full text of “Zweites Buch (Hitler’s Secret Book).pdf (PDFy mirror)” (archive.org)
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Remember this quote from the book:
I am a German nationalist. This means that I proclaim my nationality. My whole thought and action belongs to it. I am a socialist. I see no class and no social estate before me, but that community of the Folk, made up of people who are linked by blood, united by a language, and subject to a same general fate. I love this Folk and hate only its majority of the moment, because I view the latter to be just as little representative of the greatness of my Folk as it is of its happiness.
…and earlier in the book, he said:
The people who chatter so happily about socialism do not at all realise that the highest socialist organisation of all has been the German Army. This is also the reason for the fierce hatred of the typical capitalistically inclined Jews against an organisation in which money is not identical with position, dignity, to say nothing of honour, but rather with achievement; and in which the honour of belonging among people of a certain accomplishment is more greatly appreciated than the possession of property and riches.
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The Pittsburgh Press (November 15, 1942)
In factory area –
Reds fall back in Stalingrad
Russians attacking on all other key fronts
By Henry Shapiro, United Press staff writer
Moscow, USSR –
Fierce battles are raging again in Stalingrad where the Germans, at a cost of several thousand men killed in three days, have pressed back the Soviet defenders “somewhat” in one place, but elsewhere the Red Army is hurling back all assaults, the Soviet High Command announced today.
In the city’s factory district, the Germans hammered constantly at the Soviet lines for three days and nights and fierce hand-to-hand fighting ensued. Russian troops “self-sacrificingly” repelled all attacks but the Germans succeeded in making a slight gain in an unidentified sector.
In the Caucasus, where the Russians have taken the offensive, several German positions were occupied southeast of Nalchik, gateway to the Caucasian military highways.
The German and Finnish war communiqués indicated that Soviet attacks were almost general along the lengthy Russian front. The Finns reported local assaults on the Kaunas Isthmus and “lively” reconnaissance activity on the Karelian Isthmus.
The Nazi High Command reported Soviet thrusts across the Don River, in the Terek River sector of the Caucasus, east of Lake Ilmen and on the Volkhov River sector. Only at Stalingrad and in the Tuapse area were German attacks reported.
Soviet front reports said that northeast of Tuapse and southeast of Nalchik, the Russians made several advances.
A dispatch to Red Star, the Red Army newspaper, from Tuapse reported that the Russians destroyed all oil wells and removed oil refineries before evacuating Maikop, Krasnodar and Neftegorsk.
The report said the Germans had not yet been able to obtain any oil from the fields.
Didn’t he make his foreign policies dead visible to everyone when he annexed Czechoslovakia ?
So all i see is hitler taking away your money… And storming off in his Mercedes… If the book was ever published
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If you want to know the details of his thoughts on foreign policy, you have to read that book. Reading Hitler’s work may be a chore for the uninitiated but it is one of the best ways to understand not just the man himself but also, in some ways, Nazism itself. Hence why I don’t support efforts to ban it.
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The Pittsburgh Press (November 16, 1942)
Soviet Army rolls ahead in Caucasus
Powerful German drive at Stalingrad fails; Nazi losses mount
By Henry Shapiro, United Press staff writer
Moscow, USSR –
The defenders of Stalingrad have again fought the Germans to a standstill, and the Soviet High Command announced today that Red Army units maintained their advance in the Caucasus, southeast of Nalchik, where they have killed more than 1,000 Germans and knocked out 32 tanks in the last 36 hours.
The intensity of German attacks in Stalingrad declined rapidly during the last 24 hours after the Russians stemmed a tank penetration in one of the bloodiest battles in weeks. Despite powerful tank and infantry concentration on a 200-yard front, the Germans were able to make only small penetrations, which the Russians boxed while slaughtering the main infantry force.
Russians strike in north
Between the Volga and Don, northwest of Stalingrad, a Soviet reconnaissance unit slashed into German positions during the night, killing 60. Russian artillery dispersed and “partly annihilated” about a company of the enemy.
The Berlin correspondent of a Stockholm newspaper wrote that blizzards were sweeping Stalingrad, that the temperature was 13 degrees below zero and the Germans expected heavy counterattacks across the hard-frozen Volga.
In a sudden blow on the Volkhov Front, between Lake Ilmen and Leningrad, Soviet forces captured a “populated place of great strategic importance.” The Russians beat off all German counterattacks, killed at least 1,000 Axis forces and captured piles of booty.
Big offensive possible
It was the first Russian activity in months on the cold Volkhov Front, but it was too early to determine whether the Soviet Army was embarked on a big winter offensive in that area.
The Soviet advance southeast of Nalchik has been steady for days and the German forces that once had threatened the Grozny oil fields and Ordzhonikidze were taking a beating of the proportion that had almost meant disaster at Mozdok, 50 miles northeast of Nalchik. There the Germans lost 50-70% of their forces and the Terek River was red with their blood.
Moreover, frontline dispatches said, the Russians were advancing despite a desperate defense by the Germans on two wide sectors.
Germans lost 97 planes
On the other Caucasian front, northeast of the Tuapse Naval Base, the Russian reported only reconnaissance activity, in which 40 Germans were killed. Yesterday, however the Russians had occupied a height of great strategical importance in the mountains northeast of Tuapse, and the Germans were reported rushing up reserves to try to save themselves.
The Germans were still suffering heavy plane losses, despite increasingly bad flying conditions. The Soviet High Command reported the enemy lost 97 in the week ending yesterday. The Russians in the same period lost 66.
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The Pittsburgh Press (November 17, 1942)
NAZIS CAUGHT UNPREPARED BY RUSSIAN COLD
Winter sets in solidly on all areas of front
Russians kill 3,000 more at Stalingrad, keep going in Caucasus
By Henry Shapiro, United Press staff writer
Moscow, USSR –
Freezing cold today swept the Don Valley and the Voronezh area, where summer-clad German troops battled the weather and Marshal Semyon Timoshenko’s slashing Russian armies who, front reports said, killed another 3,000 Axis troops in Stalingrad.
The Germans were unprepared for the severe Russian winter, correspondents reported, and, as during last year’s biting cold, were dropping out of the battle lines with frostbite, colds and other illnesses.
The Russians, taking enemy prisoners, found them dancing in the snow, trying to keep warm. Others wrapped themselves in looted peasant shawls, felt rags and blankets. The prisoners said the German command had not yet issued heavy clothing.
Deep snow in north
The Russian winter, which took thousands of German lives last year, was setting in solidly along the far-flung front. Deep snows were reported in the north, along the entire Karelian front, where the first detachments of ski troops were operating.
Stockholm, quoting the French Havas News Agency, said snow and rain had paralyzed operations from one ends of the Russian front to the other. Havas reported that German attacks in Stalingrad appeared to have halted with the attackers preparing to hole up for the winter.
At Stalingrad, the Russians consolidated their positions in freezing weather, and the initiative appeared to be alternating between the defenders and the Nazis, front dispatches said.
Ready for offensive
These dispatches suggested that the defenders, having smashed the latest German offensive, probably would soon have the initiative entirely in their hands.
Attacking yesterday, Red Army forces in Stalingrad had dislodged the Germans from positions they occupied three days ago, killed up to 1,500 troops and destroyed two tanks, six guns and three planes. Today’s communiqué told of the killing of 1,500 more.
Gen. Ditwar, the German High Command’s spokesman, tried to explain on Radio Berlin why Stalingrad had not been taken. He admitted that the capture of Stalingrad was the real objective of the German campaign in Russia, but said it could not be encircled because of the Volga River and the Russians had better communications.
Caucasus gains continue
The Russians counteroffensive southeast of Nalchik in the Central Caucasus maintained steadily progress and the noon communiqué reported that Soviet tanks had driven a wedge into enemy defenses and killed a platoon of infantry, in addition to destroying three anti-tank guns and several machine-gun ports.
The Germans sent up 12 tanks in a futile effort to drive back the wedge. Four of them were destroyed.
The Red Army also held the initiative on the Western Caucasian Front southeast of Tuapse Naval Base. “Numerically superior” forces of the enemy attacked a height southeast of Nalchik, the noon communiqué asserted, but the Russians counterattacked, killed 160 and forced the enemy to retreat.
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The Russian counteroffensive
Does that mean Operation Uranus has begun? Or are they probing for weak areas?
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Still coming soon, my friend…
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