Bormann dictations

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The Bormann dictations from February 4 to 26 and April 2, 1945 are monologues by Adolf Hitler , which his secretary Martin Bormann had stenographed and edited during the same period . Some historians question its authenticity. Others consider them to be reliable, even if they do not rule out shortenings and corrections by Bormann.

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The Swiss banker and right-wing extremist François Genoud , who emerged as a supporter of Nazi criminals and a Holocaust denier , initially published these Bormann dictations in French and English. In 1981 its German translation appeared under the title Hitler's Political Testament , together with an essay by the historian Hugh R. Trevor-Roper and an afterword by André François-Poncet . The German additional title was picked up by some recipients.

However, the Bormann dicates are not considered to be Hitler's testamentary, final declaration of intent. The official “ Political Testament of Adolf Hitler ” is his last declaration of intent from April 29, 1945, which he wrote himself and entitled “My Political Testament”.

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In contrast to public speeches, in the Bormann dictates Hitler spoke in first person and undisguised form about his political goals, which he otherwise deliberately disguised rhetorically as “ prophecy ”. For example, he told Bormann: If he won the war, he would put an end to world Jewry and deal a death blow to it. There you can also find the statement: "I exterminated the Jews."

literature

  • François Genoud (ed.): Hitler's political testament. The Bormann dictates of February and April 1945. With an essay by Hugh R. Trevor-Roper and an afterword by André François-Poncet. Albrecht Knaus, Hamburg 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Longerich : Hitler's deputy: leadership of the party and control of the state apparatus by the Hess staff and the party chancellery Bormann: A publication of the Institute for Contemporary History. KG Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-11081-2 , p. 6.
  2. ↑ Thomas Schirrmacher: Hitler's war religion. The anchoring of Hitler's worldview in his religious terminology and his image of God. Volume 1, Bonn 2007, p. 42.
  3. ↑ Joachim Scholtyseck : The Blitzkrieg against France - return to "normal war"? In: The military resistance against Hitler in the light of new controversies: XXI. Königswinter Conference from 22.-24. February 2008 , pp. 51-79, p. 63, fn. 50 .
  4. ↑ Jan Hornik: Why the Holocaust - Hitler's Darwinistic Messianic Genocide. Kindle Edition, 2011, p. 9  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.books.google.de  
  5. ^ Gerhard Schreiber : German war crimes in Italy: perpetrators, victims, prosecution. CH Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-39268-7 , p. 222, note 3 .
  6. ^ David Bankier : The Use of Antisemitism in Nazi Wartime Propaganda. In: Michael Berenbaum, Abraham J. Peck (eds.): The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined. Indiana University Press, 2002, p. 48  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.books.google.de