The Only Secret Recording of Hitler's Normal Voice | The Hitler-Mannerheim Recording

During his lifetime, but also in later scholarship, Hitler has been revered for his ability to charm crowds with his

voice

. The dictator realized better than anyone at that time the power of well-organized speeches to excite and intimidate, because more than 500 speeches were given, of which in audio. and video footage has survived, we really

only

know Hitler's speech in its most dramatic form. It may come as a surprise but it's not something you usually think of when you think about the rise of

hitler

or the second world war in general, but we

only

have

recording

s of Hitler giving speeches to massive crowds and I'm sure he managed to captivate and charm those crowds with his characteristic husky

voice

and dramatic way of speaking.

I mean, he basically perfected demagoguery and from photographs and documentation we know that he prepared his speeches in his speeches. Down to the smallest detail, he not only rehearsed the content of his speeches, but also practiced and prepared the intonation of every word he pronounced. In fact, photographs were commissioned to examine certain poses in body language and see if they were imposing enough to present to crowds. He even took acting lessons as much as he needed to perfect his charisma and rhetoric. Hitler himself was aware of his rhetorical skill and stated that he was aware that he had no equal in the art of influencing the masses and that Hitler's rise to power was made possible in part by unprecedented propaganda.

Although it is true that there has been some academic debate questioning the effects of Hitler's speeches on the electoral successes of the Nazi party, in any case the speeches given by Hitler were a sight to behold and etched in the minds of anyone who saw them. witnessed even today, but What is so strange is that not a single

recording

of Hitler's natural voice has been preserved. We don't know what Hitler sounded like when he was talking to someone else, to his party colleagues, to his generals, or even to Eva Brown. However, this

secret

is not too strange.

If you imagine his desire to control everything and his fear of having leaked candid statements, Hitler was never allowed to be photographed except in an official setting, much less to be recorded off guard, and as such, no official recording exists. of Hitler's private voice and we will do it. You never know what it sounded like, well we wouldn't know if it weren't for the 75th birthday of the Finnish commander-in-chief named Gustav Emil Monerheim and a somewhat nosy and nosy Finnish sound engineer because in June 1942 Hitler visited Monarheim on a surprise visit. . for his birthday to prevent

hitler

's visit from looking like an official state visit the meeting took place on a train in imaltra in southern finland during hitler's visit tor dahman a radio engineer from eli israel finnish or wyali la Finland's national broadcast station was supposed to record the official proceedings of Hitler's birthday speeches and Monarhan's response in the train car, but after the official speeches were over, Hitler's monarchy and his entourage were to the adjacent car to have lunch without everyone present knowing.

Diamond kept the recording going. according to a unique historical record according to the head of the allied radio archives the iron diamond ones placed the microphone on the head of the wreck the ropes dropped from the window and the recorder was in the other carriage this so-called wayheim recording contains five minutes of The official speech followed by 11 minutes of more or less Hitler's monologue in a private, candid and unguarded conversation with Monahan The conversation was mainly about the Axis war effort For several minutes Hitler spoke of the enormous number of tanks and military planes of the soviet union that germany desperately tried to destroy after the whole tide of operation barbarossa was slowly turning against germany hitler tried to persuade the finns to launch more military offensives against the soviet union explained that the german panzers and the wehrmacht They were not prepared to fight during the harsh russian winters, the president gets other topics that included the defeat suffered by axis ally italy in africa, yugoslavia and albania, but people who studied the tape also noted that hitler uses, for lack of a better word, a working class language that betrays their lack of academic knowledge or formal background um, according to legend, I lit a cigarette during the conversation to test the waters.

Now I want to make a disclaimer with this statement because virtually every prominent statesman has supposedly done the same thing in testing the waters. Another famous anecdote, for example, is about Bismarck lighting a cigarette near the Austrian ambassador, so this may not be true. It was known that Hitler hated smoking and would not allow anyone to do so in his presence, but the story goes that when Monahan lit the cigarette he did not say anything, so this supposedly confirmed this. monarchy the germans were in a terrible place from a military point of view, they were not so wrong although only half a year after this conversation general paulus surrendered in stalingrad an incredible loss for the germans hitler's voice is serious a little hoarse, but yes I would have to judge the tape completely impartially.

I'd say it's actually quite easy to hear Hitler's voices in a strange way. Quite calming and deep. It certainly contrasts quite a bit with his dramatic and intense public speeches where both Hitler and his audience seem to fall. In a trance, it was not until 11 minutes into a private conversation that the SS bodyguards realized he was being recorded and instructed Damon to end the recording, which explains the abrupt ending in the middle of a sentence where Hitler describes by what is so difficult for Germany to help. finland with its front against the foreign soviet union the ss guards ordered the wyali to destroy the tape which they promised they would do apparently the guards threatened to kill diamond because many sources claim that the guards made a cut as a gesture when they met account was recording, but that's probably the most internationally recognized gesture to get someone to resign, so I personally think this is a little out of context.

It's highly unlikely that the guards would instantly threaten someone's life anyway. Yly promised to destroy the rule, but in 1957 a real The head of Finland's censorship office, Kushtav Ilkuna, was the owner according to Vihonun. He returned the reel to Yle, who subsequently released it to the public unbeknownst to many. There was a second copy in possession of the diamond. It was not found until 1992 by his son Henrik in his In my father's garage, one tape is currently in the Allies radio archive and the other in the radio and television museum in Lottie, somewhere I would love visit.

It is an extraordinary film and, although the content of what is said is interesting, it is also interesting. Because it is the only known recording of Adolf Hitler speaking without raising his voice in a private conversation, it is a very candid moment since the visit itself In total, Hitler's visit to Finland lasted no more than six hours after its rediscovery. , the film caught the interest of not only historians, actors use the film to rehearse their roles, Tobias Moretti, an Austrian actor used it to play Hitler in a film about his friendship with Albert Speer, and almost everyone knows Bruno Gunz's performance in his underground is a legendary performance and weapons are mentioned he used the tape to imitate Hitler's speech and diction in a completely relaxed manner.

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