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Recording of Hitler's normal speaking voice secretly taped by Finnish engineer
Posted on 12/28/15 at 1:20 am
Posted on 12/28/15 at 1:20 am
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Hitler sounded very different from what I expected. He had a very pleasant and soothing voice.
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Hitler: ...a very serious danger, perhaps the most serious one - it's whole extent we can only now judge. We did not ourselves understand - just how strong this state [the USSR] was armed.
Mannerheim: No, we hadn't thought of this.
Hitler: No, I too, no.
Mannerheim: During the Winter War - during the Winter War we had not even thought of this. But so, how they - in reality - and now there is no doubt all they had - what they had in their stocks!
Hitler: They had the most immense armaments that, uh, people could imagine. If somebody had told me a nation could start with 35,000 tanks, then I'd have said: "You are crazy!"
Mannerheim: Thirty-five?
Hitler: Thirty-five thousand tanks. We have destroyed - right now - more than 34,000 tanks. If someone had told me this, I'd have said: "You!" If you are one of my generals had stated that any nation has 35,000 tanks I'd have said: "You, my good sir, you see everything twice or ten times. You are crazy; you see ghosts." This I would have deemed possible. I told you earlier we found factories, one of them at Kramatorskaja, for example, Two years ago there were just a couple hundred [tanks]. We didn't know anything. Today, there is a tank plant, where - during the first shift a little more than 30,000, and 'round the clock a little more than 60,000, workers would have labored - a single tank plant! A gigantic factory! Masses of workers who certainly, lived like animals and...
Another Voice In Background: (Interrupting) In the Donets area?
Hitler: In the Donets area.
Mannerheim: Well, if you keep in mind they had almost 20 years, almost 25 years of - freedom to arm themselves...
Hitler: It was unbelievable.
Mannerheim: And everything - everything spent on armament.
Hitler: Only on armament.
Mannerheim: Only on armament!
Hitler: Only - well, it is - as I told your president [Ryti] before - I had no idea of it. If I had an idea - then I would have been even more difficult for me, but I would have taken the decision [to invade] anyhow, because - there was no other possibility. It was - certain, already in the winter of '39/ '40, that the war had to begin. I had only this nightmare - but there is even more! Because a war on two fronts - would have been impossible - that would have broken us. Today, we see more clearly - than we saw at that time - it would have broken us. And my whole - I originally wanted to - already in the fall of '39 I wanted to conduct the campaign in the west - on the continuously bad weather we experienced hindered us.
Our whole armament - you know, was - is a pure good weather armament. It is very capable, very good, but it is unfortunately just a good-weather armament. We have seen this in the war. Our weapons naturally were made for the west, and we all thought, and this was true 'till that time, uh, it was the opinion from the earliest times: you cannot wage war in winter. And we too, have, the German tanks, they weren't tested, for example, to prepare them for winter war. Instead we conducted trials to prove it was impossible to wage war in winter. That is a different starting point [than the Soviet's]. In the fall of 1939 we always faced the question. I desperately wanted to attack, and I firmly believed we could finish France in six weeks.
However, we faced the question of whether we could move at all - it was raining continuously. And I know the French area myself very well and I too could not ignore the opinions, of many of my generals that, we - probably - would not have had the élan, that our tank arm would not have been, effective, that our air force could not been effective from our airfields because of the rain.
I know northern France myself. You know, I served in the Great War for four years. And - so the delay happened. If I had in '39 eliminated France, then world history would have changed. But I had to wait 'till 1940, and unfortunately it wasn't possible before May. Only on the 10th of May was the first nice day - and on the 10th of May I immediately attacked. I gave the order to attack on the 10th on the 8th. And - then we had to, conduct this huge transfer of our divisions from the west to the east.
First the occupation of - then we had the task in Norway - at the same time we faced - I can frankly say it today - a grave misfortune, namely the - weakness of, Italy. Because of - first, the situation in North Africa, then, second, because of the situation in Albania and Greece - a very big misfortune. We had to help. This meant for us, with one small stoke, first - the splitting of our air force, splitting our tank force, while at the same time we were preparing, the, tank arm in the east. We had to hand over - with one stroke, two divisions, two whole divisions and a third was then added - and we had to replace continuous, very severe, losses there. It was - bloody fighting in the desert.
This all naturally was inevitable, you see. I had a conversation with Molotov [Soviet Minister] at that time, and it was absolutely certain that Molotov departed with the decision to begin a war, and I dismissed the decision to begin a war, and I dismissed him with the decision to - impossible, to forestall him. There was - this was the only - because the demands that man brought up were clearly aimed to rule, Europe in the end. (Practically whispering here.) Then I have him - not publicly...(fades out).
Already in the fall of 1940 we continuously faced the question, uh: shall we, consider a break up [in relations with the USSR]? At that time, I advised the Finnish government, to - negotiate and, to gain time and, to act dilatory in this matter - because I always feared - that Russia suddenly would attack Romania in the late fall - and occupy the petroleum wells, and we would have not been ready in the late fall of 1940. If Russia indeed had taken Romanian petroleum wells, than Germany would have been lost. It would have required - just 60 Russian divisions to handle that matter.
In Romania we had of course - at that time - no major units. The Romanian government had turned to us only recently - and what we did have there was laughable. They only had to occupy the petroleum wells. Of course, with our weapons I could not start a, war in September or October. That was out of the question. Naturally, the transfer to the east wasn't that far advanced yet. Of course, the units first had to reconsolidate in the west. First the armaments had to be taken care of because we too had - yes, we also had losses in our campaign in the west. It would have been impossible to attack - before the spring of 19, 41. And if the Russians at that time - in the fall of 1940 - had occupied Romania - taken the petroleum wells, then we would have been, helpless in 1941.
Hitler sounded very different from what I expected. He had a very pleasant and soothing voice.
This post was edited on 12/28/15 at 1:37 am
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Posted on 12/28/15 at 1:57 am to Bench McElroy
Posted on 12/28/15 at 5:06 am to Bench McElroy
Well, he was masterful at modulating his voice or the desired effect. So I guess hearing him so smooth in a one-on-one isn't surprising.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 5:55 am to Bench McElroy
I think he suffered from a split personality. Or he is Obama's former self. The ability to rally people with rhetoric by the sound, tone, accent, and pitch of your voice is an art form.
Listen to the way all politicians deliver speeches to different sects of people. It's pretty crazy.
Hitler was a pro at it, as well as deranged.
Listen to the way all politicians deliver speeches to different sects of people. It's pretty crazy.
Hitler was a pro at it, as well as deranged.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 6:38 am to biohzrd
must have had quite a bit of charisma also.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 10:05 am to Bench McElroy
quote:
He had a very pleasant and soothing voice.
it was all the drugs...
Posted on 12/28/15 at 10:27 am to Bench McElroy
Dude had a lot on his mein.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 10:31 am to SEClint
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Dude had a lot on his mein.
Kampf blame him for being upset.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 10:32 am to Bench McElroy
I didn't think he'd have such a harsh dialect - he certainly was an Austrian. It's hard to tell that from his speeches.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 10:53 am to Bluefin
He sounds like a ka-hunt.
This post was edited on 12/28/15 at 10:54 am
Posted on 12/28/15 at 11:09 am to BRgetthenet
How was he secretly recorded?
Posted on 12/28/15 at 11:16 am to biohzrd
quote:
Or he is Obama's former self.
God you try so hard.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 11:18 am to Bench McElroy
quote:
Hitler: Only - well, it is - as I told your president [Ryti] before - I had no idea of it. If I had an idea - then I would have been even more difficult for me, but I would have taken the decision [to invade] anyhow, because - there was no other possibility
Yes, there was another possibility, you fricking monster.
Furthermore, even after the nitwit learned that Russia was far more capable militarily than he ever imagined (but should have) he refused, over and over again and without fail, to allow German troops to withdraw from battlefields where logic knew they would be slaughtered.
Pride not only comes before the fall... it CAUSES the fall. Consider that before you/we consider narcissistic loudmouths of our own.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 11:30 am to Bench McElroy
Why is this just now being discovered?
Posted on 12/28/15 at 11:30 am to Bench McElroy
That was fascinating
Posted on 12/28/15 at 11:32 am to supatigah
quote:
How was he secretly recorded?
the guy hid the iphone in his coat pocket.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 12:23 pm to Bench McElroy
What meaningless hitler thing are y'all talking about meow?
Posted on 12/28/15 at 12:31 pm to BRgetthenet
quote:
Like Obama.
you can't be that stupid. Trump.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 12:40 pm to Hearing3
Thanks to the OP. Great material.
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