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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were completed before 1945, as well as a number of extracts in newspapers, pamphlets, government documents and unpublished typescripts.
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:
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 ...
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 ...
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.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler envisioned a league with Italy and Great Britain through which Germany would take position as a great power, replacing France. Thereafter, he would devote himself to increasing the habitat of Germans to the east. A reich of all Germans was to be created, far beyond the 1914 borders, in the center of Europe.
The theme of a "living wall" was used by Hitler as early as Mein Kampf (published 1925–1926). [17] In it he presented the future German state under National Socialist rule as a "father's house" (Vaterhaus), a safe place which would keep in the "right human elements", and keep out those which were undesirable. [17]