During the Posen speech of 4 October, 1943, you can hear the speaker turning the pages of a manuscript at several points where there is no thematic shift. Himmler gave his speeches almost completely free and only took a few notes with him as a reminder.
He rarely used a prepared text. Only four or five such texts can be identified in the available documents. He usually developed his speeches from notes he wrote down himself in German cursive, sometimes no more than a dozen words, but often detailed sketches of four, five, in some cases no less than eight cursorily written pages.
Bradley F. Smith, Agnes F. Peterson (eds.). Heinrich Himmler: Geheimreden 1933 bis 1945 und andere Ansprachen. Berlin, Wien: Propyläen Verlag, 1974, p. 251.
Hamburg: Christians, 1999), e.g. on page 284, 293 f., 305, 320, 350, 351 f., ... A couple of times he misspeaks in a way that suggests to me that the speaker is reading from a page.
The following takes place at 9:37–11:33 in this speech, which appears totally ridiculous to me (the authors write of a corridor –
Especially during the war, he was concerned that his remarks might be leaked to the public. There is a revealing episode in his speech to SS leaders in Posen in October 1943 (it does not appear in the printed version). When Himmler discovered that a corridor between the room in which he was speaking and the hotel kitchen was open, he abruptly cut short his speech and, in an excited whisper, ordered it closed. Before a background of subordinates who hurried to carry out his request, Himmler gave the audience a long whispered explanation that such methods were necessary to prevent eavesdropping by the kitchen staff.
This image of the anxiously whispering SS leader striving to avoid eavesdropping by kitchen staff is one of the few engaging events in Himmler’s speaking career. NA Tape 242-256.
Ibid., p. 311–2.
In view of the nonsense the speaker spouts in some speeches, I have come to the conclusion that not only individual passages on the evacuation of the Jews are faked, but probably most of the recordings of speeches from the National Archives, which could have been recorded by a speaker from the Munich region with texts that are supposed to characterise Himmler as a crazed psychopath. It would be strange if some effort had not been made to demonise one of the favourite enemies of Allied propaganda. Indeed, most of the audio recordings had only been “discovered” in 1947 (see the quoted text below). At the IMT, only the Posen speech of 4 October was used, not even the one of 6 October. In fact, the text of the latter speech was only discovered in 1953! (Gerald Reitlinger. The SS: Alibi of a Nation. New York: The Viking Press, 1968, p. 172.)
To compare the voices, I have now correlated the extant audio recordings of Himmler’s speeches on archive.org, most of which appear to be from the National Archives, with the listing of audio recordings of Himmler’s speeches there. There are recordings of speeches on archive.org that are not in the National Archives and vice versa. I have added links and text in parentheses to entries where applicable. Where there are significant differences in the listed recording time and the playing time of the audio file, I have written the playing time in brackets after the respective entry. I have also underlined passages that seem important to me.
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The Nazis made less effort to tap the propaganda potential of recordings, but they did grasp the efficiency potential of phonograph equipment. The SS, for example, used recording equipment to obtain transcripts of Himmler's speeches. During the 1930's many of Himmler's speeches were taken down in shorthand by secretaries or SS aides who later typed texts from these shorthand notes. Then, beginning in 1940, efforts were made to replace the stenographers with sound recording equipment. Though initial efforts were not very successful, by late 1942 the technique had been perfected and nearly all the extant typed and printed texts of Himmler speeches dating from 1943 and 1944 were derived from recordings made while Himmler was speaking. Goebbels also found speech recordings useful. After delivering an address, he could leisurely listen to the recording and make the changes that he felt would heighten the speech's propaganda effect. Then the propaganda ministry would issue a press release containing the edited text, or parts of it, which German newspapers would publish as if they were presenting the text of the original speech.
Though the recordings were chiefly just useful tools, Himmler, Goebbels, and other prominent Nazis were careful not to destroy the original discs. The Nazis' interest in preserving oral records matched their prodigious efforts to save written records of their rise to power and days of glory. The leaders of the Third Reich were convinced that they were participating in events of great historical magnitude, and, because of the importance they attached to the spoken word, it must have seemed obvious to them that the recordings should be preserved.
As World War II entered its last destructive phase and the rapid advance of the Allied armies turned the Nazi recordings into genuine "dustbin" history, havoc, disorganization, and the collapse of the German civil government scattered collections and destroyed materials. In this dazed and defeated country, overrun by conquering armies, there was little time or opportunity to worry about the preservation of anything as fragile and seemingly unimportant as Nazi phonograph records. Furthermore, Allied military authorities, as well as individual soldiers, had sharply different ideas about what should be done with the recordings they found. Some left them where they were, some seized them as captured documents, and others, presumably, destroyed them. In consequence, pure chance determined the selection process by which certain recordings moved upward through the chain of command to take their place as part of a U.S. Army collection of captured enemy records. The very randomness of this wartime and immediate postwar collection procedure should allay any suspicion that what remains is a group of recordings purposefully arranged to further the ends of Nazi propaganda.
By June 1947 so many Nazi recordings had found their way to the higher levels of the US War Department that the Army initiated a program to transfer some of them to the National Archives. The Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. Edward F. Witsell, requested on June 17 that the National Archives take custody of "approximately 525 sound recordings of Axis leaders and other propaganda material which appear to have permanent value." At that time the recordings were on loan from the Army to the Foreign Activities Correlation Division of the Department of State in Washington, D.C. The National Archives readily agreed in July 1947 to the transfer and assigned the 525 recordings to Record Group 242, National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, 1941- , with the understanding that "these recordings are only a part of captured enemy records in the custody of the War Department" and that "other records will be transferred to the [National] Archives from time to time."
In fact there were additional groups of recordings being held by various military and civil authorities. One of the largest, and probably the most significant, was the collection that was assembled by the war crimes investigators at Nuernberg. This collection seems to have included a substantial number of Himmler's speeches. The prosecution readied some of these for use against SS men in the trials held between 1946 and 1949. Two of these recordings were covered by prosecution document numbers NG 4977 and NO 5909 for case 11, United States v. Weiszacker et al., but the recordings do not seem to have been used in court; one additional recording, however, was played in court during the same case as part of the evidence against SS Obergruppenfuhrer Gottlob Berger.
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1. Bormann et al. "Speeches to the Reichs and Gauleitertagung." Posen, Oct.6, 1943. Approx. 6 hours, 15 min. Item 242-223, reels 1-13. According to the tagesprogramm, (Germany, Reichsfuhrer SS und Chef der deutschen Polizei. Personlicher Stab. Himmler Files. File 342. In Hoover Institution Collection) the meeting was opened by Martin Bormann. A speech by Albert Speer (there is an account of this speech in Albert Speer, Erinnerungen [Berlin, 1969], p. 325) was followed by speeches of his deputies: Willy Schliecker, the expert on American rearmament; Walther Rohland, the head of Panzer production; Karl Frydag, who was in charge of aircraft building; and Otto Merker, who was responsible for naval expansion. In the afternoon Erhard Milch spoke on the problems of the Luftwaffe, Karl Doenitz on the Navy, Wilhelm Schepmann on the SA, and Heinrich Himmler on the SS. A comparison with the typed text shows the recordings are complete. Disc sequence is numbered 1-87. The text for the speeches (with the exception of Heinrich Himmler's speech, in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Folder 63. EAP 161-b-12/82. Tl75, roll 85, frames 2610152-200) can be located on EAP 161-b-12/275. T175, roll 119, frames 2644970-075. Recordings of the above event are also available on tape at the Deutsche Rundfunk Archiv, Frankfurt. [Audio recording of Himmler’s speech missing.]
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7. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to SS Fuhrer, Fifth Division 'Deutschland.'", Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Dec. 13, 1940. Approx. 34 min. Item 242-187, 242-188, 242-191. Incomplete. No text or notes are extant. Internal evidence indicates that this speech was given to the officers of the 5th Division during the brief interval in which it was called Division Deutschland.
Weidinger dates such a visit and speech as December 13, 1940, but his account of the content of the speech does not coincide clearly with the extant fragments. See Otto Weidinger, Division Das Reich, 3 vols. (Osnabruck, 1967-73), vol. 2, p. 314-316.
https://archive.org/details/19401213HeinrichHimmlerAnDieSSFuehrerDerDivisionDeutschlandInAppeldoornNiederlande29m47s.
8. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Commanders of the Waffen SS" ("Kommandeurbesprechung der Waffen SS"). Kasino der Leibstandarte, Berlin, Dec. 18, 1940. Approx. 8 min. Item 242-213. Incomplete. Discs 9 and 35 only. Comparison with speaker's notes indicates the recording consists of two brief disconnected passages from the speech. Speaker's notes are extant only from the files of correspondence kept by E. Lorenz, RF-SS Adjutantur. See EAP 161-b-12/264. T175, roll 112, frames 2636892-896. [Recording missing.]
9. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Officers of the Division 'Das Reich'" ("Rede zu dem Fuhrerkorps der Division 'Das Reich'"). Place unknown, June 19, 1942. Approx. 100 min. Item 242-202. Incomplete. Discs 7 and 21 missing. An abbreviated text is extant in the files of Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. l2. EAP 161-b-12/327B. T175, roll 90, frames 2612900-910. As a basis of comparison, there are short gaps in the recording corresponding to pages 4 and 1O in the typed text. It should be noted, however, that the typed text is a summary with many cuts and rewordings and that the recording is more complete than the typed text.
https://archive.org/details/19420619HeinrichHimmlerRedeInKiewZuDenFuehrernDerSS60m35s (60 min.).
10. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Commanders of an SS Panzerkorps" ("Kommandeurbesprechung SS Panzerkorps"). Charkov, Apr. 24, 1943. Approx. 80 min. Item 242-214.
Text is extant in the unpublished file of PS-1919, IMT. On the basis of comparison with that text, there has been considerable editorial rewording in the typed text. https://archive.org/details/19430324HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorSSFuehrernImUniversitaetsgebaeudeVonCharkow60m46s (60 min.).
11. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to Junkerschule." Bad Tolz, May 27, 1943. Approx. 4 min. Item 242-179. Incomplete. Only disc 1 extant. This speech fragment is of very poor quality. Only notes for the speech are extant in PS-1919, IMT unpublished file. No satisfactory comparison can be made. [Recording missing]
12. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the SS Officers" ("Rede zu den SS Fuhrern"). Posen, Oct. 4, 1943. Approx. 190 min. Item 242-256, 242-259, 242-257, 242-251, 242-252, 242-249, 242-264, 242-263, 242-250, 242-266, 242-180. The speech has been published in IMT, Trial of the Major War Criminals (Nuernberg, 1947-49), vol. 29, p. 110-173.
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https://archive.org/details/19431004HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorDemFuehrerkorpsVonSSUndPolizeiInPosenTeil12h00m -
https://archive.org/details/19431004HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorDemFuehrerkorpsVonSSUndPolizeiInPosenTeil2AlliierteFaelschung8m39s -
https://archive.org/details/19431004HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorDemFuehrerkorpsVonSSUndPolizeiInPosenTeil31h24m -
https://archive.org/details/19431004HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorDemFuehrerkorpsVonSSUndPolizeiInPosen3h33m. (This is a zip file containing the previous recordings as well as a PDF file in German putting forward the thesis that the section on the evacuation of the Jews has been manipulated.)
13. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Gauleiter" ("Rede auf der Gauleitertagung"). Posen, Oct. 6, 1943. Approx. 32 min. Item 242-189, 242-224. Incomplete. Only a very small section of the middle of the speech is reproduced, according to text in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Folder 63. EAP 161-b-12/82. Tl75, roll 85, frames 2610152-200. Recording also contains Wilhelm Schepmann's speech of the same date (see entry 43). For further information, see entry 1, "Speeches to the Reichs and Gauleitertagung." [Recording missing.]
14. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Army Generals" ("Rede zu den Befehlshabern der Wehrmacht"). Bad Schachen, Oct. 14, 1943. Approx. 165 min. Item 242-205. Comparison with the published text in IMT, Trial of the Major War Criminals (Nuernberg, Jewish 1947-49), vol. 37, p. 498-523, indicates the recording has one gap corresponding to pages 520-521 of the published text. Extant discs are numbered 1-35 in sequence; recording and text match very closely. The recording has short concluding remarks by an unidentified army officer.
https://archive.org/details/19431014HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorBefehlshabernDerWehrmachtInBadSchachen1h42m (102 min.).
15. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech for 'Tag der Freiheit, Warthegau.'" Posen, Oct. 24, 1943. Approx. 90 min. Item 242-204. Comparison with text in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. EAP 161-b-12/87. T175, roll 91, frames 2613053-075, indicates the recording and wording of the text match very closely. There are concluding remarks by Gauleiter Arthur Greiser.
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https://archive.org/details/19431024HeinrichHimmlerInPosenZumTagDerFreiheitDesWarthegausUeberDieKommendenRassenkaempfe58s. (Short clip on coming “race wars” with Asia.)
16. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the SS Fuhrer and Officials of the General Government" ("Rede vor den SS Fuhrern und Beamten des General Gouvernement"). Krakau, Nov. 18, 1943. Approx. 50 min. Item 242-218. Incomplete. In a sequence of 25, discs 1-7, 14, 16, l7, and 23 are missing. No typed text is extant. Notes for the speech are in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. 17. EAP 161-b-12/87. T175, roll 91, frames 2613195-198.
https://archive.org/details/19431118HeinrichHimmlerAnspracheVorNeuenSSFuehrernImGeneralgouvernement52m04s.
17. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the German Press" ("Rede vor der deutschcn Presse"). Weimar, Dec. 4, 1943. Approx. 65 min. Item 242-197. Incomplete In a sequence of 25, discs 1, 2, 23, and 24 are missing. Speaking notes are in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. l7. EAP 161-b-12/87. Tl75, roll 91, frames 2613169-171, the text is in Tl75, roll 91, frames 2613144-158 and 175. Both the notes and text omit the first part of the speech. An unidentified speaker makes concluding remarks, which are distorted by recording noise.
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https://archive.org/details/19431204HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorVertreternDerDeutschenPresseInWeimar40m11s. (This file says it’s only 40 minutes long, but it’s the same 67 min. recording encoded in worse quality.)
18. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Commanders of the Ordnungspolizei and the Police Presidents" ("Rede zu den Befehlshabern der Ordnungspolizei und den Polizeipraesidenten"). Hotel Ostland, Posen, Dec. 15, 1943. Approx. 72 min. Item 242-217. Incomplete. In a sequence of 41, discs 1-21 and 28 are missing. Only notes are extant in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. 16. EAP 161-b-12/87. T175, roll 91, frames 2613159-162. Comparison with notes indicates that the first half of the speech is missing from the recording.
https://archive.org/details/19431215HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorBefehlshabernDerOrdnungspolizeiUndPolizeipraesidenten55m22s (55 min.).
19. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Generals." Sonthofen, May 5, 1944. Approx. 115 min. Item 242-200, 242-210. Speech was held as part of a political education program. Comparison with text as found in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. 22. EAP 161-b-12/280. T175, roll 92, frames 2613448-537, indicates the recording omits the equivalent of the text pages 34, 54, and 55. Disc sequence, however, is complete and numbered 1-43.
https://archive.org/details/19440505HeinrichHimmlerUeberDasGesetzVonKampfUndAuslese5m10s. (5 min. clip.)
20. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to an Abwehr/SD Meeting" ("Rede zur Abwehr/SD Tagung"). Salzburg, May 15, 1944. Approx. 155 min. Item 242-203. Notes for the speech are in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Unnumbered folder. EAP 161-b-12/277. T175, roll 94, frames 2614681-688: two typed copies of the text are on roll 92, frames 2613547-633. Wording of the recording is nearly identical with the typed text.
https://archive.org/details/19440515HeinrichHimmlerRedeAufEinerNachrichtendienstTagungInSalzburg1h59m.
21. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Commanders of the Galician SS Volunteer Infantry Division" ("Rede zu dem Fuhrerkorps der galizischen SS Freiwilligen Infanterie Division"). Neuhammer, May 16, 1944. Approx. 55 min. Item 242-206. Incomplete. In a sequence of 24, discs 21-23 are missing. Comparison with typed text in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Unnumbered folder. EAP 161-b-12/277. T175, roll 94, frames 2614657-675, indicated the recording is complete except for the last four paragraphs. The recording also includes a sentence-by-sentence translation into Ukrainian.
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https://archive.org/details/19440516HeinrichHimmlerVorDer14.WaffenGrenadierDivisionDerSSInDerUkraine2m47s. (2:48 min. clip.)
22. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to High-ranking Wehrmacht Officers" ("Rede vor den Teilnehmern des politisch-weltanschaulichen Lehrgangs"). Sonthofen, May 24, 1944. Approx. 105 min. Item 242-211. Incomplete. In a sequence of 25, discs 17-20 are missing. Comparison with text in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Unnumbered folder. EAP 161-b-12/277. T175, roll 94, frames 2614609-647, indicates the recording has a gap equivalent to pages 24-32 of the typed text. The wording on the recording is nearly identical with the typed text. This speech was one in a series of political education programs for high-ranking Wehrmacht officers.
https://archive.org/details/19440524HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorTeilnehmernDesPolitischWeltanschaulichenLehrgangsInSonthofen1h17m (77 min.).
23. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Representatives of German Justice" ("Rede zu den Vertretern der deutschen Justiz"). Kochem, May 25, 1944. Approx. 170 min. Item 242-198. Incomplete. In a sequence of 41, disc 1 is missing. Comparison with the typed text in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. 27. EAP 161-b-12/88. T175, roll 93, frames 2613736-779, indicates the recording has sections missing equivalent to pages 1-4 of the typed text. In wording, the text and the recording are almost identical. There are brief concluding remarks on the recording by Justice Minister Otto Thierack.
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https://archive.org/details/19440525HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorVertreternDerDeutschenJustizInKochem1h44m (104 min.)
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https://archive.org/details/19440525HeinrichHimmlerVorVertreternDerJustizTeil11m54s (2 min. clip.)
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https://archive.org/details/19440525HeinrichHimmlerVorVertreternDerJustizTeil239s. (39 sec. clip.)
24. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Generals." Sonthofen, June 21, 1944. Approx. 100 min. Item 238-3940. Incomplete. Using the extant typed text of the speech in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. 28. EAP 161-b-12/88. T175, roll 93, fromes 2613945-992, as a basis of comparison, the equivalent text on the recording of pages 47-49 is missing.
https://archive.org/details/19440621HeinrichHimmlerAnspracheInSonthofenVorGeneralenDerWehrmacht3m03s (3 min. clip).
25. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Officers of Infantry Division 544, Major General Ehrig, C.O." ("Rede zu den Offizieren der Infanterie Division 544, Volksgrenadier"). Grafenwohr, July 25, 1944. Approx. 32 min. Item 242-201. Incomplete. In a sequence of 33, discs 1-9, 14, 15, 17, and 20-32 are missing. Comparison with typed text in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. 28. EAP 161-b-12/88. T175, roll 93, frames 2613873-901, indicates the recording has gaps equivalent to pages 1-7, 13, and 18-28 of the text.
https://archive.org/details/19440725HeinrichHimmlerAppellAnDieOffiziereDer544.VolksgrenadierDivisionInGrafenwoehr23m27s (23 min.).
26. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Officers of the 545 Infantry Division [Volksgrenadier], Colonel Obenaus, C.O." ("Rede vor dem Offizierskorps einer Grenadier Division auf dem Truppenubungsplatz Bitsch"). Bitsch, July 26, 1944. Approx. 180 min. Item 242-209. Comparison with text in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. 30. EAP 161-b-12/88. T175, roll 93, frames 2614140-169, indicates that the typed text and the recording match closely.
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https://archive.org/details/19440726HeinrichHimmlerVorDemOffizierskorpsEinerGrenadierDivisionAufDemTruppenubungsplatzBitsch1h56m (116 min.)
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https://archive.org/details/19440726HeinrichHimmlerVorDemOffizierskorpsEinerGrenadierDivisionAufDemTruppenubungsplatzBitsch9m09s (9 min. clip).
27. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to two Volksgrenadier Divisions" ("Rede zu zwei Volksgrenadier Divisionen"). Dorn, Aug. 13, 1944. Approx. 115 min. Item 242-190. Incomplete. In a sequence of 29, discs 17, 19, 21, and 23 are missing. No notes or text are extant for this speech.
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https://archive.org/details/19440813HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorZweiVolksgrenadierDivisionenInDorn1h19m (79 min.)
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https://archive.org/details/19440813HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorOffizierenVonVolksgrenadierDivisionenImOsten5m15s (5 min. clip.).
28. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to Officers of two Volksgrenadier Divisions; 543 Infantry, Lieutenant General Rasp, C.O., and 547 Infantry, Colonel Meiners, C.O." ("Rede vor dem Offizierkorps zweier Volksgrenadier Divisionen"). Munsingen, Aug. 27, 1944. Approx. 130 min. Item 242-195. Incomplete. In a sequence of 35, discs 22 and 23 are missing. No notes or text are extant for this speech.
https://archive.org/details/19440827HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorDemOffizierkorpsVonZweiVolksgrenadierDivisionenInMunsingen1h42m (102 min.).
29. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Officers of a Volksgrenadier Division" ("Rede zu den Offizieren einer Volksgrenadier Division"). Place unknown, Aug. 29, 1944. Approx. 118 min. Item 242-254, 242-255, 242-269, 242-262, 242-253. No notes or text are extant.
Speech was originally recorded on magnetic tape (30 IPS), but because only one recorder was used there are no overlapping sections. Based on internal evidence, the speech may be complete. https://archive.org/details/19440829HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorOffizierenEinerVolksgrenadierDivision1h33m.
30. Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Commanding Officers of the Wehrkreise and the Commanding Officers of the Training Schools" ("Rede zu den Wehrkreisbefehlshabern und den Kommandeuren der Schulen"). Jagerhohe, Sept. 21, 1944. Approx. 120 min. Item 242-267, 242-258, 242-247, 242-248, 242-260, 242-265. Incomplete. Comparison with text extant in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. 26. EAP 16 1-b-12/276.
T175, roll 92, frames 2613636-658, indicates the only gap in the original magnetic tape recording corresponds to pages 8 and 9 of the 23-page typed text. This recording, however, is more complete in a number of places (i.e., sections equivalent to pages 11 and 22) than the text, which contains substantial rewording. https://archive.org/details/19440921HeinrichHimmlerRedeVorWehrkreisbefehlshabernUndSchulkommandeurenInJaegerhoehe1h53m.
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https://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records/sound-recordings.html#speech.. (This is the audio track of the video I linked to in my previous post. It is from
no. 738.)
