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The critic George Steiner suggested that Mein Kampf can be seen as one of several books that resulted from the crisis of German culture following Germany's defeat in World War I, comparable in this respect to the philosopher Ernst Bloch's The Spirit of Utopia (1918), the historian Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West (1918), the theologian ...
Adolf Hilter’s autobiographical manifesto 'Mein Kampf' has become one of Germany’s top-selling books.
A major political and ideological cornerstone of Nazi policy was the unification of all ethnic Germans living outside the Reich's borders (e.g. in Austria and Czechoslovakia) under one Greater Germany. [9] In Mein Kampf, Hitler denounced the pain and misery of ethnic Germans outside Germany, and declared the dream of a common fatherland for ...
At the peak of "Mein Kampf" sales, Hitler earned $1 million a year in royalties alone, equivalent to $12 million today. By 1939 , Hitler's work had been translated into 11 languages with 5,200,000 ...
The 11-page document, Central Germany, 7 May 1936 – Confidential – A Translation of Some of the More Important Passages of Hitler's Mein Kampf (1925 edition), was circulated among the British diplomatic corps, and a private copy was also sent to the Duchess of Atholl, who may or may not have used it in what was ultimately her translation of ...
Biographer Joachim Fest asserted that Mein Kampf contained a "remarkably faithful portrait of its author". [97] In Mein Kampf, Hitler categorized human beings by their physical attributes, claiming German or Nordic Aryans were at the top of the hierarchy, while assigning the bottom orders to Jews and Romani.
Mein Kampf (1926–28), Hitler's political autobiography, presented the racist philosophy of Lebensraum advocated for Germany by the Nazi Party. In Mein Kampf (1925), Hitler dedicated a full chapter—titled "Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy"—to outlining the need for the new "living space" for Germany.
The Kampfhäusl (German for "[My] Struggle House") was a small log cabin on the forest property of the former Gebirgskurhauses Obersalzberg (formerly the Pension Moritz; from 1928: Platterhof) [1] in Obersalzberg. The cabin was the location where Adolf Hitler wrote the second volume of Mein Kampf (My Struggle).