Hitler’s inner-party speeches were deliberately kept unpublished

Evidence

Hitler used this picture for the first time in 1922: “Moses Kohn on the one side encourages his association to refuse the workers’ demands, while his brother Isaac in the factory invites the masses…” to strike. (Hitler’s Speeches: 1922–1939, ed. Baynes, London, 1942, p. 29.) It is noteworthy that no complete collection of Hitler’s speeches was ever published in Nazi Germany, so that one is forced to resort to the English edition. That this was no accident can be seen from a bibliography compiled by Philipp Bouhler, Die Reden des Führer’s nach der Machtübernahme, 1940: only the public speeches were printed verbatim in the Völkischer Beobachter; as for speeches to the Fuehrerkorps and other party units, they were merely “referred to” in that newspaper. They were not at any time meant for publication. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2626

Categorization

• XREF: The deliberate suppression of the record connects to the reader’s toolkit on how totalitarian systems control the archive and historical representation.