Hitler Redux: The Incredible History of Hitler’s So-Called Table Talks

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Contents
Preface
	The “official” history of the table talks
	The various published editions
	Short biographies of the table talk authors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1 The table talks: how were they made and how have historians used them?
	Introduction
	Troubling finds indeed
	The stenography myth
	Wolfram Pyta’s analysis of the table talks
	Other scholars engage with the table talks
	The case of Rainer Zitelmann: a source-critical debacle and notes on bad methodologies
	More recent examples of uncritical usage of the table talks
	The table talks vs. Mein Kampf: is there really a difference?
	Conclusion
2 A scholarly scandal: the publication of Henry Picker’s Hitlers Tischgespräche in 1951
	The Quick affair
	Ritter and his odd source-critical thinking
	Albert Speer on Tischgespräche: a reliable witness?
	Critique against Tischgespräche
	Bormann’s note attached to the Bormann-Vermerke
	More confusion regarding the table talks
	The mystery of the Bormann note facsimile
	The 1963 second edition of Picker’s Tischgespräche
	Conclusion
3 François genoud and his table talk manuscript
	Genoud battles Picker and the IfZ
	The first court case: who should own the copyright to the table talk notes?
	How did Picker get hold of Heim’s notes?
	The second court case: Picker sues Genoud
	The myth of the unsuspecting Hitler
	When did Genoud actually acquire the table talk manuscript?
	Theodore Schmitz: Catholic priest and Stasi agent
	Rudolfo Siviero (the “007 of art”) and Edilio Rusconi: the sources of Genoud’s documents?
	Conclusion
4 The Heim proof pages: how a revolutionary discovery and its implications went unnoticed
	How Heim’s proof pages were found: the CCP gallery assistant Joseph Ehrnsberger
	Mau goes to the United States
	Editorial changes in Picker’s text
	Some examples of the differences
	How many copies of the table talks were originally made?
	Evaluating Heim’s proof pages
	Significant changes made in the proof pages
	Odd similarities between Genoud and Picker
	Conclusion
5 The publication of Hitler’s Table Talk and the role of Hugh Trevor-Roper
	Introduction
	Meeting Genoud
	Lost, and added, in translation
	Trevor-Roper’s questionable handling of Genoud and his documents
	Trevor-Roper and the second edition of Table Talk from 1973
	Conclusion
6 The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the last table talk or a clever forgery?
	Introduction
	The beginnings: a new text of questionable provenance
	Trevor-Roper re-discovers that The Testament was translated from the French
	Continuing doubts and the exposure of more lies
	More indications of fraud: analysis from the internal evidence
	The best textual evidence of forgery
	A German text is finally published
	An odd postscript
	Conclusions
7 Werner Jochmann and the Monologe im Führerhauptquartier edition: the publication of Genoud’s “original” manuscript
	Introduction
	In the beginning was the word
	An incomplete source-critical evaluation
	An odd find in Jochmann’s archive
	The table talks on trial again
	The aftermath
	The Enigma re-print of Table Talk: a bizarre affair
	Conclusions
8 Conclusions
Bibliography and sources
Appendix
Index