A two-volume work titled The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922 – August 1939 was published by Oxford University Press in 1942 under auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.#Baynes1942-1 Page ii

Overview The foreword is by the Chairman of the Council at the time, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor.#Baynes1942-1 Page iii

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

It was edited by Professor Norman Hepburn Baynes who translated from the German at times with a self-confessed difficulty due to a ‘diffuseness‘ in National Socialist terminology.#Baynes1942-1 Page v Where authorised English translations existed, Baynes used these.#Baynes1942-1 Page vi Interviews published in French journals are quoted un-translated.#Baynes1942-1 Page vi

Baynes completed the task over a two-year period commencing with the outbreak of World War II and October 1941.In the foreword dated October 1941 Astor says '….the Institute is indeed fortunate in being able to reap the fruits of two years of exhaustive study…' The preface (by Baynes) is also dated 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

See also List of books by or about Adolf Hitler List of Adolf Hitler speeches

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