Hitler's Table Talk

114 QUESTIONS OF DIET
type of man. The judge's purpose is to discover the truth. As
he is only a man, he can achieve this only by means of his
intuition—if at all.
63 5th November 1941, evening
SPECIAL GUESTS: SS COLONEL (STANDARTENFUEHRER) BLASCHKE
AND DR. RICHTER
Caesar's soldiers were vegetarians—Diet and long life—
Living foodstuffs and sterile diet—Cancer a disease of the
degenerate—Disinherited regions and their inhabitants—
An honoured caste called the deer-stalkers—The helots of
Sparta—Progress of the Germanic race—The impoverished
proletariat of Europe—A recrudescence of anti-Semitism in
Britain—Racial doctrine camouflaged as religion—Peculiarities
of the Jewish mind.
There is an interesting document, dating from the time of
Caesar, which indicates that the soldiers of that time lived on a
vegetarian diet. According to the same source, it was only in
times of shortage that soldiers had recourse to meat. It's known
that the ancient philosophers already regarded the change
from black gruel to bread as a sign of decadence. The Vikings
would not have undertaken their now legendary expeditions
it they'd depended on a meat diet, for they had no method of
preserving meat. The fact that the smallest military unit was
the section is explained by the fact that each man had a mill for
grain. The purveyor of vitamins was the onion.
It's probable that, in the old days, human beings lived longer
than they do now. The turning-point came when man replaced
the raw elements in his diet by foods that he sterilises
when he eats them. The hypothesis that man ought to live
longer seems to be confirmed by the disparity between his short
existence as an adult, on the one hand, and his period of growth,
on the other. A dog lives, on the average, eight to ten times as
long as it takes him to grow up. On that ratio, man ought
normally to live from one hundred and forty to one hundred
and eighty years. What is certain is that, in countries like
Bulgaria, where people live on polenta, yoghurt and other such
foods, men live to a greater age than in pur parts of the world.
And yet, from other points of view, the peasant does not live