Recording of Hitler's and Mannerheim's private conversation
These are the first eleven minutes of Hitler's and Mannerheim's private conversation, happened during a secret visit honoring Mannerheim's 75th birthday on 4 June 1942. As Hitler never allowed anyone to record him off-guard, this recording had to be done secretly.
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Years ago I had the idea to come to Finland,
and I did it in a very incognito way,
not only to get to know the country,
but above all to participate in the great Olympic Games
that I thought would take place in Helsinki.
I admired the Finnish fighters in Berlin a few years before and I also admired the
peace fighters.
I knew from the time of the World War and the end of the World War
also the name of the Marshal.
If I had not dreamed at that time that fate would lead me to Finland under these circumstances.
The war in which we are standing together
was neither foreseen by Germany nor, I can say that, prepared.
If we had imagined this war as possible, then the preparations would have been more thorough, better, more practical and more purposeful.
We might have believed in the possibility of a negotiation in Europe,
if certain states would have looked at a renewal of the Marseille Treaty.
But I had the strong hope that it would succeed here, simply by the power of reason and by the realization
that impossible conditions can also remain impossible, that it could be achieved to carry out peaceful revisions.
Because I had a very big social program in mind.
I myself, in my people, came from very difficult beginnings,
and I had no other life goal than to carry out a very big social program
and also a large, complementary cultural program.
I have dedicated myself to these tasks.
I can really say that the Board has now decided otherwise.
And after the necessity arose to reach for the freedom of my own people to a weapon,
I was happy that the Board had decided to take this step.
The development of the political situation made it possible only since June 1940
to see a danger that had become apparently threatened by the threat of a German side.
And in this direction also decisions, binding decisions to be made.
From this decision it came to the point that I am not only sorry, but also happy.
Because the fight that is now behind us and that is just before us has shown the greatest danger,
which is no longer here, but is all over Europe.
Maybe if I had known beforehand the extent of the preparations of Bolshevism against Europe,
the decision would have been more difficult for me.
I would have caught him for sure, because I expect those men who do not want to avoid a danger that is inevitable or that is inevitable in the future, but who prefer to face it head on and to take on any need and any worry.
Especially not to turn on future genders what has to be done once.
Today, I know how immense this danger was, I am therefore still happy that the foresight, the strength and the insight into this decision have allowed me.
This decision has brought together the German and the Finnish people for the second time in our history.
In a fight against the same enemy.
Already the first joint fight in which for the first time the today's Jubilee
his great personality for the Finnish people.
Already this first fight has created bonds that were lasting.
The second fight, I am convinced, will strengthen these bonds for all times.
Because we will not get around one realization.
As always, the victory, and there can be no peace without a victory, there will be a victory, as always this victory will look like.
The danger in the East will remain somewhere lurking.
And I believe that for the far future a whole number of European peoples have a common interest
to face this danger with a vigilant eye and, if necessary, to counter it with a vigilant mind.
I am now determined to stand up against it.
Now I have become, not only the leader of the German people, but also the highest commander of the German Wehrmacht,
I am now happy in this property, the Marshal Finlands, to present my congratulations today.
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vor Jahren hatte ich einmal den Gedanken
nach Finland zu kommen und zwar W
möglich ganz in
Kog um nicht nur das Land kennenzulernen
sonder vor allem um teil zu haben an den
großen olympischen Festspielen die ich
glaubteinski
stattfindenum ich habe
wenige Jahre vorher die finnischen
Kämpfer in Berlin bewundert und Kel
darüberus Freiheitskämpfe kannte aus
Zeit des Weltkriegs und das Abschluss
des Weltkriegs auch Namen des
machchalls damals nicht träumen lassen
dass nicht das Schicksal einmal unter
diesensten nach kindland führen
W der Krieg in gemeinsam stehen war von
Deutschland weder vorgesehen noch das
darf ich ruhig aussprechen vorbereitet
worden wenn wir uns diesen Krieg als
möglich vorgestellt hätten dann werden
die Vorbereitungen gründlicher besser
praktischer zweckmäsiger
gewesen
wir glaubten vielleicht an die
Möglichkeit an Auseinandersetzung in
Europa dann
wenn gewisse Staaten es auf eine
verebgung des veraler Vertrages
abgesehen haben würden aber ich hatte
die starke Hoffnung dass es auch hier
gelingen würde einfach durch die Macht
der Vernunft und durch die
Erkenntnis dass unmögliche Zustände auch
unmöglich bleiben können dass es damit
gelingen könnte friedliche Revisionen
herbeizuführen ich hatte ein ganz groes
soziales Programm vor
ich bin selbst in meinem Volk aus sehr
schweren Anfängen
orgestiegen ich hatte kein anderes
Lebensziel als ein ganz großes soziales
Programm durchzuführen und auch ein
großes ergänzendes kulturelles Programm
diesen Aufgaben habe ich mich
gewiednet
die ich darf wirklich sagen Vorsehung
hat es n anders
bestimmt und nachdem sich die
Notwendigkeit ergab für die Freiheit
