Hitler's Table Talk

66 MONETARY THEORY
out of my available funds. Simply, I've read a lot, and I've
known how to profit by the experience of events in the past.
Frederick the Great, already, had gradually withdrawn his
devaluated thalers from circulation, and had thus re-established
the value of his currency.
All these things are simple and natural. The only thing is,
one mustn't let the Jew stick his nose in. The basis of Jewish
commercial policy is to make matters incomprehensible for a
normal brain. People go into ecstasies of confidence before the
science of the great economists. Anyone who doesn't understand
is taxed with ignorance! At bottom, the only object of
all these notions is to throw everything into confusion.
The very simple ideas that happen to be mine have nowadays
penetrated into the flesh and blood of millions. Only the professors
don't understand that the value of money depends on
the goods behind that money.
One day I received some workers in the great hall at Obersalzberg,
to give them an informal lecture on money. The good
chaps understood me very well, and rewarded me with a storm
of applause.
To give people money is solely a problem of making paper.
The whole question is to know whether the workers are producing
goods to match the paper that's made. If work does not
increase, so that production remains at the same level, the extra
money they get won't enable them to buy more things than
they bought before with less money.
Obviously, that theory couldn't have provided the material
for a learned dissertation. For a distinguished economist, the
thing is, no matter what you're talking about, to pour out ideas
in complicated meanderings and to use terms of Sibylline
incomprehensibility.
42 17th October 1941, midday
The fall of Odessa—Antonescu's rôle—Necessary reforms in
Rumania—Elimination of the Jew.
With the fall of Odessa, the war will be practically over for
Rumania. All that's left for the Rumanians to do is to consolidate
their position.