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Ever since the early 1930s, the history of Mein Kampf in English has been complicated and an occasion for controversy. [53] [54] No fewer than four full translations were completed before 1945, as well as a number of extracts in newspapers, pamphlets, government documents and unpublished typescripts.
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 ...
Russia was the primary target of Hitler's expansionist foreign policy. In his book, Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler dedicated a chapter to Eastern policy and detailed his plans for gaining "living space" in the East. [132] He called on the German people to "secure its rightful land on this earth," and announced:
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 ...
He considered the development of modern Russia to have been the work of Germanic, not Slavic, elements in the nation, but believed those achievements had been undone and destroyed by the October Revolution, [25] in Mein Kampf, he wrote, “The organization of a Russian state formation was not the result of the political abilities of the Slavs ...
In Mein Kampf (1925; My Struggle), Hitler presented his conception of Lebensraum as the philosophic basis for the Greater Germanic Reich that was destined to colonize Eastern Europe—especially Ukraine in the Soviet Union—and so resolve the problems of overpopulation, and that the European states had to accede to his geopolitical demands ...
Ron Rosenbaum, the highly regarded historian and author of 'Explaining Hitler,' has expressed his views on President Trump.. In a piece published earlier this week in the 'Los Angeles Review of ...
Antisemitic literature like the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion—which purports to describe a Jewish conspiracy for world domination—was popular in prewar Russia. [389] Russian pogroms targeting the Jews were among the first in the modern period to incite its citizens to violence for the sake of political expediency. [390]