The Speeches of Adolf Hitler April 1922 – August 1939 were published in two volumes by the Oxford University Press

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 in 1942 under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

The foreword is by the Chairman of the Council at the time, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor

Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor

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Being a collection of representative passages arranged under subjects, the speeches are neither complete, self-contained, nor necessarily in chronological order. Interviews with journalists are also included.

It was edited by Professor Norman Hepburn Baynes

Norman H. Baynes

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who translated from the German at times with a self-confessed difficulty due to a ‘diffuseness‘ in National Socialist terminology. Where authorised English translations existed, Baynes used these. Interviews published in French journals are quoted un-translated.

Baynes completed the task over a two year period commencing with the outbreak of World War II and October 1941.

Contents of the publication

• VOLUME I

• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
• 1. EARLY SPEECHES 1922-1924
• 2. THE FORMATION OF THE PARTY: HITLER‘S RETROSPECT
• 3. THE PROGRAMME OF THE PARTY
• 4. THE EARLY DAYS OF THE PARTY
• 5. THE 'PUTSCH' OF 8-9 NOVEMBER 1923
• 6. LEGALITY
• 7. THE SA. AND SS.

  Note: The SA.

• 8. STEPS TO POWER
• 9. ORGANIZATION OF THE PARTY:THE MEANING OF THE ANNUAL GATHERINGS OF THE PARTY-THE PARTEITAGE
• 10. THE MODEL REVOLUTION
• 11. THE MOVEMENT AND THE OPPOSITION
• 12. GLEICHSCHALTUNG
• 13. THE ROEHM PURGE
• 14. RELIGION

  Note: The Treatment of Religion by Hitler in Mein Kampf.

• 15. CONSTITUTION

  Note: The Constitution of the National Socialist State.

• 16. CRITICISM AND LIBERTY
• 17. LAW

  Note on Law

• 18. WOMAN
• 19. YOUTH
• 20. THE ARMY
• 21. KULTUR
• 22. THE OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE: THE TASKS OF THE MOVEMENT
• 23. THE YEARS IN RETROSPECT AS HITLER SAW THEM
• 24. BOLSHEVISM
• 25. THE JEWS

  Note and Bibliography.

• 26. ECONOMICS

• VOLUME II
• 27. FOREIGN POLICY

  NOTES

  I. ADDENDA

  II. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

  INDEXES

  I. INDEX OF SPEECHES

  II. LIST OF NAMES OF AUTHORS

  III. GENERAL INDEX