'was reading Hitler's speech (oddly enough I read Hitler's speeches but very seldom read Churchill's I feel there is much truth in what he says. This statement, is, I suppose, more or less treasonable. While I was reading the speech, Vi. said "Our Manager was reading aloud bits of Hitler's speech. "What did you all think of it?" I asked. "Well, Mr. B., (the Manager) said it was all bluster, but I thought that Hitler is a very clever man cos he's done everything he said he was going to do in "Mein Kampf". I dont hate him at all now, somehow, because he hates all the
aristocracy and is for our class, and that's what I like".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Unknown
'I prefer to go as soon as I can to the fountainhead, and to read, say, "Mein Kampf," to reading about Hitler. Such books I buy and read through without skipping or skimming, - marking, annotating and "grangerising". Other books dealing with the subject can then be got from the library and read quickly.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - "Mein Kampf". Oh, I liked "Rebecca" and "Gone with the Wind".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'I read it three times, and I can't make head or tail of it. Doesn't seem nothing in it somehow.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Unknown
Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Cannon St. Bought a paper with Hitler's speech. Read it on top of Bus. Inconclusive -- cut up in Stop Press. Everyone reading it -- even newspaper sellers, a great proof of interest [...] Read Chaucer. Enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Newspaper
Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Cannon St. Bought a paper with Hitler's speech. Read it on top of Bus. Inconclusive -- cut up in Stop Press. Everyone reading it -- even newspaper sellers, a great proof of interest [...] Read Chaucer. Enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: 'newspaper sellers' Print: Newspaper
Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Hitler's 18 July 1937 'address at Munich' (denouncing 'degenerate' art, and demanding an ideally pure and timeless national art for Germany), which Forster notes that he originally read as research for his article 'The Ivory Tower'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Unknown
