The land of milk and honey is contaminated with blood. This book was published by Hitler when he was just This book changed the world and its legacy still lives on today. People are fast to judge this book as anti-semetic but don't be fooled - it speaks truth. Reviewer: Frenchkiller - favorite - March 27, Subject: Impartial!!!
Reviewer: Benevan - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 7, Subject: Superpower China India read this book decades ago. Today they Both became superpower. Reviewer: Treebeaver - favorite favorite favorite favorite - October 29, Subject: LOL this is a pretty good book.
Reviewer: Thomas Mrett - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - August 28, Subject: Probably the best version If you're going to read or cite Mein Kampf in English, this seems to be the best version, at least in terms of being freely available online.
Hence my five-star review. The views set forth in Mein Kampf are, of course, are something else entirely. Anti-Semites in the comments claiming that subsequent English translations have been edited "by sneaky jews who want to make a buck off a man they hate so much" are amusing for two reasons: 1.
This translation was made specifically because until then the only widespread English translation, by Dugdale, was abridged with support from the Nazi regime.
Some of those supporting the translation were identified with the left in their day: Albert Einstein, John Gunther one of the translators , Theodore Dreiser, etc.
Reviewer: nismo - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - July 14, Subject: Timely Book. Fantastic piece of literature on a country and a people solidified in their beliefs and culture much unlike American which is now in chaos and economic ruins and so culturally and racially divided it will eat itself alive.
This man should be a beacon of light to America on what a strong country needs. I'm American with German ancestry and disgust in the way America has become and even the way Germany has become and look at France even and proven face a diverse population doesn't make it a strong one. Been down those roads well be interesting who new supreme leader will be in America to make it great again maybe it has one time will tell.
Reviewer: villagehiker - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - April 6, Subject: Mind of Hitler This book presents the mind of Hitler. It is worth the reading. Hitler talks about injustices in the treaty ending WWI fighting.
He also clearly presents his views of history, purity, Judaism, Marxism and more. He offers solutions to what he sees as problems. Anyone reading this book and its translation in the late s through the late s could hardly claim surprise of what happened in Europe. If anything, this book read in the light of through may warn us about the dangers of dehumanizing and demonizing people from our shouting platforms built on ideology, partisanship and nationalism.
Overlaying the content on the USA today, it might lessen our support for pplitical parties, bureaucracies and ideologies while increasing our efforts to work for common good, putting the interests of others at least equal to those of our own.
Reviewer: xyoungblood - favorite - December 6, Subject: Hitler. Man, myth, leader of micro-penises. Nazis are just weak men and women, who have zero self confidence blaming others for their short comings. What a bunch of babies. Reviewer: Ronish Baxter - favorite favorite favorite favorite - April 7, Subject: Useful Information for Online Users This piece of text is like a an invaluable piece of text for online users who wish to learn more about Mein Kampf.
Certainly very useful for me as I was searching for it since a long time and ultimately I got hold of it thanks to archive. Reviewer: doris - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 17, Subject: Michael Fry Exactly, they were not just burning books and art for the sake of it. The jews were de-moralizing the nation. And by the way. People only have to do their own research, not online, which is all censored and doctored information but old newspapers, old books.
Research and find out what was actually happening in Europe in the 's and 30's. Hitler certainly had every right to defend his country and people from what was happening and was going to spread world wide, if he did not try to stop it.
Alas he lost, and the spread of disease happened, now the world is one big sorry zionist pustule run cesspit!!!! Du you really find that somehow funy or even acceptable?? Reviewer: Supernaturalist - favorite favorite favorite favorite - October 24, Subject: Hmm Never really thought about this book, but saw it on this website and kind of read it. Weird that Hitler wrote this. Also, people who gave 5 stars for anti-jew content are worse than Stanley Yelnats' dirty-rotton pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and they have a thing or two to learn about ethics and history.
It is the best book i have ever read! Elections were scheduled for early March, but on February 27, , the Reichstag building was set on fire. Since a Dutch independent communist was found in the building, the fire was blamed on a Communist plot to which the government reacted with the Reichstag Fire Decree of February 28, which suspended basic rights, including habeas corpus.
Under the provisions of this decree, the German Communist Party and other groups were suppressed, and Communist functionaries and deputies were arrested, put to flight, or murdered. Campaigning continued, with the Nazis making use of paramilitary violence, anti-Communist hysteria, and the government's resources for propaganda. Hitler had to maintain his coalition with the DNVP, as the coalition had a slim majority. On 21 March, the new Reichstag was constituted itself with an impressive opening ceremony held at Potsdam's garrison church.
This "Day of Potsdam" was staged to demonstrate reconciliation and union between the revolutionary Nazi movement and "Old Prussia" with its elites and virtues.
Hitler himself appeared, not in Nazi uniform, but in a tail coat, and humbly greeted the aged President Hindenburg. Because of the Nazis' failure to obtain a majority on their own, Hitler's government confronted the newly elected Reichstag with the Enabling Act that would have vested the cabinet with legislative powers for a period of four years. Though such a bill was not unprecedented, this act was different since it allowed for deviations from the constitution.
As the bill required a two-thirds majority in order to pass, the government needed the support of other parties. The position of the Catholic Centre Party, at this point the third largest party in the Reichstag, turned out to be decisive: under the leadership of Ludwig Kaas, the party decided to vote for the Enabling Act.
It did so in return for the government's oral guarantees regarding the Church's liberty, the concordats signed by German states and the continued existence of the Centre Party itself. On 23 March, the Reichstag assembled in a replacement building under extremely turbulent circumstances.
Some SA men served as guards within while large groups outside the building shouted slogans and threats toward the arriving deputies.
Kaas announced that the Centre would support the bill amid "concerns put aside. At the end of the day, all parties except the Social Democrats voted in favour of the bill. With this combination of legislative and executive power, Hitler's government further suppressed the remaining political opposition.
Labour unions were merged with employers' federations into an organisation under Nazi control and the autonomy of German state governments was abolished. Hitler also used the SA paramilitary to push Hugenberg into resigning and proceeded to politically isolate Vice Chancellor Papen. Soon after, president Paul von Hindenburg died on 2 August Thereby Hitler also became supreme commander of the military, which then swore their military oath not to the state or the constitution but to Hitler personally.
In a mid-August plebiscite, these acts found the approval of Combining the highest offices in state, military and party in his hand, Hitler had attained supreme rule that could no longer be legally challenged.
Having secured supreme political power, Hitler went on to gain their support by convincing most Germans he was their saviour from the Depression, the Communists, the Versailles Treaty, and the Jews, along with other "undesirable" minorities. Hitler oversaw one of the greatest expansions of industrial production and civil improvement Germany had ever seen, mostly based on debt flotation and expansion of the military. Nazi policies toward women strongly encouraged them to stay at home to bear children and keep house.
The unemployment rate was cut substantially, mostly through arms production and sending women home so that men could take their jobs. Given this, claims that the German economy achieved near full employment are at least partly artifacts of propaganda from the era.
Much of the financing for Hitler's reconstruction and rearmament came from currency manipulation by Hjalmar Schacht, including the clouded credits through the Mefo bills. The negative effects of this inflation were offset in later years by the acquisition of foreign gold from the treasuries of conquered nations. Hitler also oversaw one of the largest infrastructure-improvement campaigns in German history, with the construction of dozens of dams, autobahns, railroads, and other civil works.
Hitler's policies emphasised the importance of family life: men were the "breadwinners", while women's priorities were to lie in bringing up children and in household work. Hitler's government sponsored architecture on an immense scale, with Albert Speer becoming famous as the first architect of the Reich.
While important as an Architect in implementing Hitler's classicist reinterpretation of German culture, Speer would prove much more effective as armaments minister during the last years of World War II. In , Berlin hosted the summer Olympic games, which were opened by Hitler and choreographed to demonstrate Aryan superiority over all other races, achieving mixed results.
Olympia , the movie about the games and other documentary propaganda films for the German Nazi Party were directed by Hitler's personal filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. Had the railroad been built, its gauge would have been three metres, even wider than the old Great Western Railway of Britain.
Hitler contributed slightly to the design of the car that later became the Volkswagen Beetle, and charged Ferdinand Porsche with its design and construction. In March , Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles by reintroducing conscription in Germany, building a massive military machine, including a new Navy Kriegsmarine and an Air Force Luftwaffe. The enlistment of vast numbers of men and women in the new military seemed to solve unemployment problems, but seriously distorted the economy.
For the first time in 20 years, Germany's armed forces were as strong as France's. In March , Hitler again violated the Treaty by reoccupying the demilitarized zone in the Rhineland. When Britain and France did nothing, he grew bolder.
Hitler sent troops to support Franco and Spain served as a testing ground for Germany's new forces and their methods, including the bombing of undefended towns such as Gernika in April , prompting Pablo Picasso's famous eponymous Guernica painting. They were collectively known as the Axis Powers. Then on November 5, , at the Reich Chancellory, Adolf Hitler held a secret meeting and stated his plans for acquiring "living space" Lebensraum for the German people.
This was applied with varying degrees of rigourousness to different groups of society, but constituted in essence the same application of the brutal and crude concept of social Darwinism to all the different kinds of victims.
Between and , the SS, assisted by collaborationist governments and recruits from occupied countries, systematically killed about 11 million people, including about 6 million Jews [14] , in concentration camps, ghettos and mass executions, or through less systematic methods elsewhere. Besides being gassed to death, many also died of starvation and disease while working as slave labourers sometimes benefiting private German companies in the process, because of the low cost of such labour.
Along with Jews, non-Jewish Poles over 3 million of whom died , alleged communists or political opposition, members of resistance groups, resisting Roman Catholics and Protestants, homosexuals, Roma, the physically handicapped and mentally retarded, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, anti-Nazi clergy, trade unionists, and psychiatric patients were killed.
This industrial-scale genocide in Europe is referred to as the Holocaust the term is also used by some authors in a narrower sense, to refer specifically to the unprecedented destruction of European Jewry.
One of the biggest and most important concentration camps is Auschwitz. While no specific order from Hitler authorizing the mass killing of the Jews has surfaced, there is documentation showing that he approved the Einsatzgruppen and the evidence also suggests that in the fall of Himmler and Hitler agreed in principle on mass extermination by gassing.
During interrogations by Soviet intelligence officers declassified over fifty years later, Hitler's valet Heinz Linge and his military aide Otto Gunsche said Hitler had "pored over the first blueprints of gas chambers. To make for smoother cooperation in the implementation of this "Final Solution", the Wannsee conference was held near Berlin on January 20, , with fifteen senior officials participating, led by Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann. The records of this meeting provide the clearest evidence of planning for the Holocaust.
On February 22, Hitler was recorded saying to his associates, "we shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jews". On March 12, , Hitler pressured his native Austria into unification with Germany the Anschluss and made a triumphal entry into Vienna. Next, he intensified a crisis over the German-speaking Sudetenland districts of Czechoslovakia. This led to the Munich Agreement of September , which authorized the annexation and immediate military occupation of these districts by Germany.
After that, Hitler was claiming territories ceded to Poland under the Versailles Treaty. Britain had not been able to reach an agreement with the Soviet Union for an alliance against Germany, and, on August 23, , Hitler concluded a secret non-aggression pact the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Stalin on which it was likely agreed that the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany would partition Poland. On September 1, Germany invaded the western portion of Poland. Britain and France, who had guaranteed assistance to Poland, declared war on Germany.
Not long after this, on September 17, Soviet forces invaded eastern Poland. After capturing western Poland by the end of September, Hitler built up his forces much further during the so-called Phony War. In April , he ordered German forces to march into Denmark and Norway. In May , Hitler ordered his forces to attack France, conquering the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium in the process.
France surrendered on June 22, This series of victories convinced his main ally, Benito Mussolini of Italy, to join the war on Hitler's side in May Britain, whose defeated forces had evacuated France from the coastal town of Dunkirk, continued to fight alongside Canadian forces in the Battle of the Atlantic.
After having his overtures for peace systematically rejected by the defiant British Government, now led by Winston Churchill, Hitler ordered bombing raids on the British Isles, leading to the Battle of Britain, a prelude of the planned German invasion. Air superiority for the invasion, code-named Operation Sealion, could not be assured and Hitler ordered bombing raids to be carried out on British cities, including London and Coventry, mostly at night.
On June 22, , Hitler gave the signal for three million German troops to attack the Soviet Union, breaking the non-aggression pact he had concluded with Stalin less than two years earlier.
This invasion, code-named Operation Barbarossa, seized huge amounts of territory, including the Baltic states, Belarus, and Ukraine, along with the encirclement and destruction of many Soviet forces. German forces, however, were stopped short of Moscow in December by the Russian winter and fierce Soviet resistance see Battle of Moscow , and the invasion failed to achieve the quick triumph over the Soviet Union which Hitler had anticipated.
Hitler's declaration of war against the United States on December 11, four days after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA set him against a coalition that included the world's largest empire the British Empire , the world's greatest industrial and financial power the USA , and the world's largest army the Soviet Union. In May , Reinhard Heydrich, one of the highest SS officers and one of Hitler's favorite subordinates, was assassinated by British-trained Czech operatives in Prague.
Hitler reacted by ordering brutal reprisals, including the massacre of Lidice. In February , the lengthy Battle of Stalingrad ended with the complete encirclement and destruction of the German 6th Army. Both defeats were turning points in the war, although the latter is more commonly considered primary.
From this point on, the quality of Hitler's military judgment became increasingly erratic and Germany's military and economic position deteriorated.
Hitler's health was deteriorating too. His left hand started shaking uncontrollably. The biographer Ian Kershaw believes he suffered from Parkinson's disease.
Other conditions that are suspected by some to have caused some at least of his symptoms are methamphetamine addiction and syphilis. Throughout and , the Soviet Union steadily forced Hitler's armies into retreat along the eastern front. On June 6, , the Western allied armies landed in northern France in what was the largest amphibious operation ever conducted, Operation Overlord.
Realists in the German army knew defeat was inevitable and some officers plotted to remove Hitler from power. In July one of them, Claus von Stauffenberg, planted a bomb at Hitler's military headquarters in Rastenburg the so-called July 20 Plot , but Hitler narrowly escaped death. He ordered savage reprisals, resulting in the executions of more than 4, people [16] sometimes by starvation in solitary confinement followed by slow strangulation.
The main resistance movement was destroyed although smaller isolated groups such as Die Rote Kapelle continued to operate. By the end of , the Red Army had driven the last German troops from Soviet territory and began entering Central Europe. The western allies were also rapidly advancing into Germany. The Germans had lost the war from a military perspective, but Hitler allowed no negotiation with the Allied forces, and as a consequence the German military forces continued to fight.
Hitler's stubbornness and defiance of military realities also allowed the continued mass killing of Jews and others to continue. He even issued the Nero Decree on March 19, , ordering the destruction of what remained of German industry, communications and transport. However, Albert Speer, who was in charge of that plan, did not carry it out. The Morgenthau Plan for postwar Germany, promulgated by the Allies, aimed at a similar deindustrialization.
In April , Soviet forces were at the outskirts of Berlin. Hitler's closest lieutenants urged him to flee to Bavaria or Austria to make a last stand in the mountains, but he seemed determined to either live or die in the capital. SS leader Heinrich Himmler tried on his own to inform the Allies through the Swedish diplomat Count Folke Bernadotte that Germany was prepared to discuss surrender terms.
He also had his dog Blondi poisoned around the same time. When Russian forces reached the Chancellory, they found his body and an autopsy was performed using dental records and German dental assistants who were familiar with them to confirm the identification.
To avoid any possibility of creating a potential shrine, the remains of Hitler and Braun were repeatedly moved, then secretly buried by SMERSH at their new headquarters in Magdeburg. In April , when the facility was about to be turned over to the East German government, the remains were reportedly exhumed, thoroughly cremated, and the ashes finally dumped unceremoniously into the Elbe. According to the Russian Federal Security Service, a fragment of human skull stored in its archives and displayed to the public in a exhibition came from the remains of Hitler's body uncovered by the Red Army in Berlin, and is all that remains of Hitler; however, the authenticity of the skull has been challenged by many historians and researchers.
At the time of Hitler's death, most of Germany's infrastructure and major cities were in ruins and he had left explicit orders to complete the destruction. Millions of Germans were dead with millions more wounded or homeless. However, Goebbels and his wife Magda committed suicide on 1 May On 7 May , in Rheims, France, the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Western Allies and on 8 May , in Berlin to the Soviet Union thus ending the war in Europe and with the creation of the Allied Control Council on 5 June , the Four Powers assumed "supreme authority with respect to Germany.
Historical and cultural portrayals of Hitler in the west are, by virtually universal consensus, condemnatory. Reproductions in Germany are generally authorized only for scholarly purposes and in heavily commented form.
The situation is however unclear; Werner Maser whom Theodor Heuss proposed to publish "Mein Kampf" as a weapon against Nazi Ideology comments that intellectual property cannot be confiscated and so, it still would lie in the hands of Hitler's nephew, who, however, does not want to have anything to do with Hitler's legacy. This situation lead to contested trials, eg. The display of swastikas or other Nazi symbols is prohibited in Germany and political extremists are generally under surveillance by the Verfassungsschutz, one of the federal or state-based offices for the protection of the constitution.
There have been instances of public figures referring to Hitler's legacy in neutral or favourable terms, particularly in South America, the Islamic World and parts of Asia. Adolf Hitler was brought up in his family's religion by his Roman Catholic parents, but as a school boy he began to reject the Church and Catholicism. After he had left home, he never attended Mass or received the Sacraments.
In later life, Hitler's religious beliefs present a discrepant picture: In public statements, he frequently spoke positively about the Christian heritage of German culture and belief in Christ.
However, in contrast to other Nazi leaders, Hitler did not adhere to esoteric ideas, occultism, or neo-paganism, and ridiculed such beliefs in his book Mein Kampf. Rather, Hitler advocated a "Positive Christianity", a belief system purged from what he objected to in traditional Christianity, and reinvented Jesus as a fighter against the Jews. Hitler believed in a Social Darwinist struggle for survival between the different races, among which the "Aryan race" was supposed to be the torchbearers of civilization and the Jews as enemies of all civilization.
Whether his anti-semitism was influenced by older Christian ideas remains disputed. Hitler also strongly believed that "Providence" was guiding him in this fight. Among Christian denominations, Hitler favoured Protestantism, which was more open to such reinterpretations, but at the same time imitated some elements of Catholic church organization, liturgy, and phraseology in his politics.
Hitler's alleged health problems in his later years have long been the subject of debate, and he has variously been suggested to have suffered from irritable bowel syndrome, skin lesions, irregular heartbeat, tremors on the left side of his body, syphilis, Parkinson's disease and a strongly suggested addiction to methamphetamine.
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