Conversations with Hitler
Literary work by Hermann Rauschning
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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
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
The work was widely cited by many scholars including Hannah Arendt in her The Origins of Totalitarianism and Richard Pipes in his Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime.
See also
- Hitler Diaries, another falsified work about Adolf Hitler