Mein Kampf

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Serious thread. Im asking if anyone has read Hitlers book, and on a serious and mature response, opinions? I have not read it no, but was thinking of picking it up, no im not racist, radicalist, evil etc etc.
 
burnsy2023 said:
I've heard that too, apparently it's not exactly easy to read.

Burnsy
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Try the opening passage.

VOL. I A RETROSPECT
CHAPTER I
IN THE HOME OF MY PARENTS

{013}It has turned out fortunate for me to-day that destiny appointed Braunau-on-the-Inn to be my birthplace. For that little town is situated just on the frontier between those two States the reunion of which seems, at least to us of the younger generation, a task to which we should devote our lives and in the pursuit of which every possible means should be employed. German-Austria must be restored to the great German Motherland. And not indeed on any grounds of economic calculation whatsoever. No, no. Even if the union were a matter of economic indifference, and even if it were to be disadvantageous from the economic standpoint, still it ought to take place. People of the same blood should be in the same Reich. The German people will have no right to engage in a colonial policy until they shall have brought all their children together in the one State. When the territory of the Reich embraces all the Germans and finds itself unable to assure them a livelihood, only then can the moral right arise, from the need of the people to acquire foreign territory. The plough is then the sword; and the tears of war will produce the daily bread for the generations to come.And so this little frontier town appeared to me as the symbol of a great task. But in another regard also it points to a lesson that is applicable to our day. Over a hundred years ago this sequestered spot was the scene of a tragic calamity which affected the whole German nation and will be remembered for ever, at least in the annals of German history. At the time of our Fatherland’s deepest humiliation a bookseller, Johannes Palm, uncompromising nationalist and enemy of the French, was put to death here because he had the misfortune to have loved Germany well. He obstinately refused to disclose the names of his associates, or rather the principals who were chiefly responsible for the affair. Just as it happened with Leo Schlageter. The former, like the latter, was denounced to the French by a Government agent. It was a director of police from Augsburg who won an ignoble renown on that occasion and set the example which was to be copied at a later date by the neo-German officials of the Reich under Herr Severing’s regime1).In this little town on the Inn, haloed by the memory of a German martyr, a town that was Bavarian by blood but under the rule of the Austrian State, my parents were domiciled towards the end of the last century.
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Not really light bedtime reading. :(
 
If you want to read something about Hitler then read a book written by a historian, My Struggle is simply a lot of racist thoughts printed in a book, I don't see the point on reading it personaly.
 
I dunno, I found that one paragraph rather interesting >_> it's the closest insight into Hitler's way of thinking you can find.
 
burnsy2023 said:
I'm of the opinion that you need to understand evil to prevent it in the future. To simply dismiss it is foolish.

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Very good point, to understand what might happen in the future you must understand what has been before. The book and the author shaped a nation and the 20th century
 
I did my CSYS History dissertation on the topic "Hitler, warmonger or opportunist who blundered into war?" so had to get quite familiar with this book.

It was written by a nutter locked in a prison cell and you can really tell, the majority of it makes no sense and the stuff that does numbs your brain in it's complete uselessness. He seemed to consider himself the master on every topic but everything is based on blind belief and shoddy reasoning.

Would only recommend reading it if you
a - had no other books to read
b - have no choice
c - have a real interest in Hitler or his mindless ramblings
 
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