The speeches made by Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945 during the Nazi reign of terror in Germany are being systematically analysed by a research association.
The project is scheduled to run for seven years and is intended to identify and analyse all of Hitler's speeches for the first time and make them available to the academic world and general public through a critical edition, the researchers announced in Mannheim on Friday.
The joint project is being realized by the German Broadcasting Archive Foundation, Goethe University Frankfurt, the Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin, the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim and Philipps University Marburg.
The aim is to make all relevant texts and audio transcripts available in a scientifically reliable form.
"Facts and contexts are explained in the annotations according to the current state of research, and short biographies introduce the people mentioned," the researchers said.
The explanations will be published in printed and digital form, they said. Surviving audio recordings will be made searchable and analysable.
The project is funded by the German Research Foundation, an interdisciplinary organization for the promotion of science and research -in Germany.