Hitler's Table Talk

230 GERMANY S DIET
The Swiss are only suckers of the Germanic tree.
We've lost some of our Germanics ! The Berbers of North
Africa, the Kurds of Asia Minor. One of them was Kemal
Ataturk, who had nothing to do with his compatriots, from the
racial point of view.
117 22nd January 1942, evening
SPECIAL GUEST: ADMIRAL FRICKE
The Bavarians and the Nayy—Fish as food—Meat-eaters
and vegetarians—Vegetarian atavism—Alcohol and
smoking.
Of all the areas of the Reich, it's Bavaria that used proportionally
to have the greatest number of seamen. The smallest
bookshop in Munich used to display books about the Navy.
The chief publisher of works on the Navy had his headquarters
in Munich—I mean J. F. Lehmann.
Germany consumes, yearly, an average of twelve kilogrammes
of fish per head. In Japan the average is from fifty to sixty
kilos. We still have leeway to make up! To encourage the
consumption of fish is above all a matter of organisation and
presentation, for it's essentially a perishable commodity.
Before the first World War, it was incomparably easier to find
fish in Munich than in Vienna, for example. It seems that
since then conditions in Austria have much improved.
It's very difficult to persuade a cannibal not to eat human
flesh. According to his ideas, it's a law of nature.
Hitler turns towards Admiral Fricke:
Above all, don't go believing that I'll issue a decree forbidding
the Navy to eat meat! Supposing the prohibition of
meat had been an article of faith for National Socialism, it's
certain our movement wouldn't have succeeded. We would at
once have been asked the question: "Then why was the leg of
the calf created?" At present, the base of our diet is the potato
—and yet only I per cent of the soil in Germany is devoted to