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Heinrich Heim (15 June 1900,
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– 26 June 1988, Munich) was a
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and
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'' Ministerialrat'' who transcribed and co-published with Werner Jochmann transcripts of
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informal talks, known colloquially as ''
Hitler's Table Talk "Hitler's Table Talk" (German: ''Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier'') is the title given to a series of World War II monologues delivered by Adolf Hitler, which were transcribed from 1941 to 1944. Hitler's remarks were recorded by Heinrich ...
''. Heim's version of the table talk was published in 1980 under the title ''Adolf Hitler Monologe im Führerhauptquartier 1941-1944''. Heim's edition relied upon the original
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notes, recorded by Heim from 5 July 1941 to mid March 1942, and August–September 1942.Lukacs, John (1998). ''The Hitler of History''. New York: Random House
p. 57.
/ref> According to German historian
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, from a " source-critical point of view, the most reliable version of the ''Table Talk'' remains Werner Jochmann's edition of 1980."Levy, Richard S. (2005). ''Antisemitism: A historical encyclopedia of prejudice and persecution''. Volume 1. Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO
p. 308.
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Biography

Heinrich Heim was born in
Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
,
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into a distinguished family of lawyers. His father was a judge at the Bavarian Supreme Court, and a member of the Bavarian Court. Raised in
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,
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, Heim studied law at the
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. After graduation Heim was hired by a law firm, where he worked with lawyer
Hans Frank Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician and lawyer who served as head of the General Government in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War. Frank was an early member of the German Workers' Party ...
, who would later become a high-ranking official in
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. Heim primarily represented the interests of a relief fund headed by
Martin Bormann Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery. He gained immense power by using his position as Adolf Hitler's private secretary to control the flow of information ...
. From 1939 to 1943 Heim worked as an aide to Bormann, which later lead to his notable work recording Hitler's informal conversations.


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