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Rhein-Main Air Base was a United States Air Force air base near the city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was a Military Airlift Command (MAC) and United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) installation, occupying the south side of Frankfurt Airport. Its military airport codes (IATA: FRF, ICAO: EDAF) are discontinued. Established in 1945 ...
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]
Hitler's "Mein Kampf" in the 1936 edition. Written in 1924 and 1925/26, Volume 1 was published in July 1925 and Volume 2 in December 1926 by the Nazi party's Eher Verlag. From 1930 on Eher published a one-volume edition with both parts. Since 1936 it had been presented by the registrar as a wedding present.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf. Eine Abrechnung (published 1925). Alfred-Ingemar Berndt, Tanks Break Through! A German Soldier's Account of War in the Low Countries and France, 1940. Leo Leixner, From Lemberg to Bordeaux A German War Correspondent’s Account of Battle in Poland, the Low Countries and France, 1939–40 (published 1941).
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 ...
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 ...
During his imprisonment, Hitler dictated and then wrote his book Mein Kampf with assistance from his deputy, Rudolf Hess. Numerous foreign political prisoners of the Nazis were deported to Germany and imprisoned in Landsberg. Between early 1944 and the end of the war, at least 210 prisoners died in Landsberg as a result of mistreatment or ...
Adolf Hilter’s autobiographical manifesto 'Mein Kampf' has become one of Germany’s top-selling books.