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Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf ISBN 13: 9780395925034

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In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet to be called Settling Accounts. In it he intended to attack the ineffectiveness of the dominant political parties in Germany which were opposed to the new National Socialists (Nazis). In November 1923, Adolf Hitler was jailed for the abortive Munich Beer Hall putsch along with men willing and able to assist him with his writing. With the help of these collaborators, chief among them Rudolf Hess, the pamphlet became a book. Settling Accounts became Mein Kampf, an unparalleled example of muddled economics and history, appalling bigotry, and an intense self-glorification of Adolf Hitler as the true founder and builder of the National Socialist movement. It was written in hate and it contained a blueprint for violent bloodshed. When Mein Kampf was published in 1925, it was a failure. In 1926 a second volume appeared - it was no more successful than the first. People either laughed at it or ignored it. They were wrong to do so. As Hitler's power increased, pressure was put on all party members to buy the book. Gradually this pressure was extended to all elements of the German population. Soon Mein Kampf was even being passed out to newlywed couples as a gift. Ironically, and frighteningly, by the time Hitler came to power on January 30, 1933, what has been considered by many to be the most satanic book ever written was running neck and neck with the Bible at the top of the German bestseller lists. In his excellent introduction to this definitive American translation of Mein Kampf, Konrad Heiden writes: "For years Mein Kampf stood as proof of the blindness and complacency of the world. For in its pages Hitler announced -- long before he came to power -- a program of blood and terror in a self-revelation of such overwhelming frankness that few among its readers had the courage to believe it ... That such a man could go so far toward realizing his ambitions, and -- above all -- could find millions of willing tools and helpers; that is a phenomenon the world will ponder for centuries to come." We would be wrong in thinking that such a program, such a man, and such appalling consequences could not reappear in our world of the present. We cannot permit our selves the luxury of forgetting the tragedy of World War II or the man who, more than any other, fostered it. Mein Kampf must be read and constantly remembered as a specimen of evil demagoguery that people whenever men grow tired of thinking and acting for themselves. Mein Kampf is a blueprint for the age of chaos. It transcends in historical importance any other book of the present generation. In his translation Ralph Manheim has taken particular care to give an exact English equivalent of Hitler's highly individual, and often awkward style, including his occasional grammatical errors. We believe this book should stand as the complete, final, and definitive English version of Hitler's own story of his life, his political philosophy, and his thwarted plans for world domination. Translated by Ralph Manheim with an introduction by Konrad Heiden. A compilation of Hitler's most famous prison writings of 1923--the bible of National Socialism and the blueprint for the Third Reich.

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Das wütende Gerede eines obskuren, Kleinparteipolitikers, des ersten Bandes von „Mein Kampf“, wurde bei seiner Erstveröffentlichung im Jahr 1925 praktisch ignoriert. Ebenso der zweite Band, der 1926 erschien. Das Buch beschreibt Hitlers Kindheit, den „Verrat“ an Deutschland im Ersten Weltkrieg, den Wunsch nach Rache an Frankreich, das Bedürfnis nach Lebensraum für das deutsche Volk und die Mittel, mit denen die nationalsozialistische Partei an die Macht gelangen kann. Es beinhaltet auch Hitlers rassistische Agenda und seine Verherrlichung der „arischen“ Rasse. Die wenigen außerhalb der NSDAP, die es gelesen hatten, wiesen es als Unsinn ab und glaubten nicht, dass jemand seine radikalen, terroristischen Programme durchführen könnte – oder würde. Als Hitler und die Nazis an die Macht kamen, wurden zuerst Parteimitglieder und dann die breite Öffentlichkeit unter Druck gesetzt, das Buch zu kaufen. Als Hitler 1933 Reichskanzler wurde, stand das Buch auf den deutschen Bestsellerlisten. Wäre das Buch bei seiner Erstveröffentlichung ernst genommen worden, wäre das 20. Jahrhundert vielleicht anders verlaufen.
Abgesehen von Wut, Hass, Bigotterie und Selbstverherrlichung wird Mein Kampf von brutaler Prosa, mäandrierenden Erzählungen und verworrenen Metaphern durchzogen (eine Person wurde als "Dorn im Auge der korrupten Beamten" beschrieben). Es ist allerdings ein unglaublich wichtiges Buch. Es ist töricht zu glauben, dass sich der Holocaust nicht wiederholen könnte, besonders wenn der Zweite Weltkrieg und seine Schrecken vergessen werden. Ein Leser von Amazon.com hat darauf hingewiesen: „Wenn Sie wissen wollen, warum sich der Holocaust ereignet hat, müssen Sie unbedingt die Worte des Mannes lesen, der am meisten dafür verantwortlich war.“ Mein Kampf muss daher als Erinnerung daran gelesen werden, dass sich das Böse nur allzu leicht ausweiten kann.
– Sunny Delaney

Eine Botschaft der Anti-Diffamation League (Anti-Diffamierungs-Liga): Mein Kampf war Hitlers Plan für seinen späteren Krieg für die Erlangung der Weltherrschaft und die Vernichtung von Juden und anderen. Das acht Jahre vor seiner Machtübernahme in Deutschland geschriebene Buch beschreibt alles: seinen Größenwahn, seine konspirative Besessenheit mit Juden und seine Machtgier. Für alle, die behaupteten, nicht gewusst zu haben, war alles, was sie tun mussten, „Mein Kampf“ zu lesen, um von Hitlers Absichten zu erfahren.
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Adolf Hitler (1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), popularly known as the Nazi Party. He was the ruler of Germany from 1933 to 1945, serving as chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and as head of state (Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945.

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  • PublisherHarper Paperbacks
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0395925037
  • ISBN 13 9780395925034
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages694
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