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Mein Kampf (German: [maɪn ˈkampf]; lit. ' My Struggle ') is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The book outlines many of Hitler's political beliefs, his political ideology and future plans for Germany and the world. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926. [1]
The Zweites Buch (German: [ˈtsvaɪ̯təs buːχ], "Second Book"), published in English as Hitler's Secret Book and later as Hitler's Second Book, [1] is an unedited transcript of Adolf Hitler's thoughts on foreign policy written in 1928; it was written after Mein Kampf and was not published in his lifetime.
Hitler claimed that Jews had spread the "big lie" that General Erich Ludendorff was responsible for the country's loss in World War I.. Hitler's definition is given in Chapter 10 of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (part of a single paragraph in both the German original and James Murphy's translation):
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 ...
Germany, Hitler, and World War II: Essays in Modern German and World History. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-521-47407-8. Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf, Enigma Books, 2003 ISBN 1-929631-16-2. Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders.
Dietrich Eckart visited Obersalzberg for the first time in May 1923. [2] The Hitler trial resulted in a minimum sentence of five years in Landsberg Prison, where he dictated the first volume of Mein Kampf to his later deputy Rudolf Hess [3] (according to Joachim Fest, the first volume was only dictated by Hitler in Obersalzberg after his imprisonment, like the second). [4]
Adolf Hilter’s autobiographical manifesto 'Mein Kampf' has become one of Germany’s top-selling books.
The German Government used 90% of James Vincent Murphy's rough draft translation of Mein Kampf to form the body of an edition to be distributed in the UK once Operation Sea Lion was completed. This 'Operation Sea Lion Edition' was finalized and printed in the summer of 1940.