Thus Spoke Hitler

<p>Hitler spoke a lot and was keen on not being misunderstood: he had every word of his stenographed. He always had new plans: German colonies in the East with the local inhabitants transformed into slaves; a super airplane Henkel to bomb New York.</p><p></p><p>The story of Nazism and the Third Reich is told through Hitler's words: the project for the Thousand-Year Reich Swiss managing hotels Eastern Europe transformed into a vast colony with fortified Germanic cities in the midst of countryside inhabited by millions of slaves. Manhattan turned into a heap of rubble. And more: the Final Solution comments on allies and enemies his passion for cars and his knowledge of the technical details of airplanes and tanks. Finally the war for world domination as revealed by the Führer's public and private conversations which were carefully stenographed over the years.</p><p></p><p>An unprecedented and all-encompassing portrait of Hitler also enriched by documents preserved in the former Soviet archives which were only recently made public. We learn for example that Stalin did not disappear from the Kremlin after the German invasion of 1941 and that the Soviets had prepared plans for a pre-emptive attack on Germany.</p><p></p><p>The Allies already knew in 1939 about the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact for the partition of Eastern Europe and by 1944 they had detailed aerial photographs Of the Auschwitz camp.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>