Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945. Volume 1, 1932-1934; Volume 2, 1935-1938

Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945. Volume 1, 1932-1934; Volume 2, 1935-1938. Collected and edited by Max Domarus. Volume 1, London: I. B. Tauris, 1990. Pp. 611. Volume 2, Wauconda, Ill.: BolchasyCarducci, 1995. ISBN 0-86516-228-X. Pp. 756.

There has been a longstanding interest in the scholarly community in having as complete a set as possible of the letters, speeches, proclamations, and publications of Adolf Hitler. The collection brought together by Max Domarus was one of the earliest ones. In 1962-63 Domarus, an Archivdirektor in Wuerzburg, and a specialist in Bavarian regional history, published two large volumes entitled Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen, 1932-1945, kommentiert von einem deutsch,en Zeitgenossen. In his foreword Domarus explained how in 1932 he came to collect Hitler's speeches and proclamations, mostly from the Volkischer Beobachter but from other sources as well, such as pamphlets and leaflets, because he thought that eventually this kind of source material would be intensely...