Mein Kampf was published 100 years ago today.

>>17851357 (OP)
It's pretty boring, the fascist manifesto is a lot better at both explaining its thoughts and actually being interesting to read

Why did the NSDAP treat Mein Kampf like it was their version of Das Kapital when it was basically just a massive schizopost Hitler wrote while he was sitting in a prison cell? Apparently party members gave out copies of it to people and I cannot understand why they would do that, there's just not a whole lot the average reader is going to get out of it

>>17851357 (OP)
I miss this little nigga like you wouldn't believe.

>>17851365
Hitler never sat down and actually wrote what he believed in a clear manner. That and everyone who tried to outline nazism just made it seem more incoherent; 25 point program vs rosenberg vs himmler etc.
Mein kampf was really the best they had for a starting text on nazism

>>17851357 (OP)

Hitler was a Christian. DWTWYW.

>>17851388
>Hitler was a Christian
It's actually not clear what his religious views were. The Nazi Party themselves pushed their own highly censored and sanitized version of Christianity called Posotive Christianity that basically aimed to have a version of Christianity that promoted party values and stripped it of its Jewish influence and nobody considers it canon. Hitler himself was likely not a very religious man, at best he was probably some kind of Deist that believed in some kind of abstract spiritual framework based around Nietzschean and nordicist autism coupled with vaguely European Pagan influence.

>>17851357 (OP)
Shit, godawful book. Even Hitler himself was embarassed at it.

>>17851357 (OP)
Second book is way better.

Why didn't international audiences pay attention to it during the interwar years? He basically lays out his entire ideological evolution and philosophy. Lebensraum, the necessity to expand the Germanic race into Russia and its vassals, Slavs being unassimilable, Greeks and Romans wuz nordic, the supremacy of Nordics, even mentioning the extermination of the Jews. A lot of things about the Nazi regime and WW2 were foreshadowed in it.

I also find it silly how many left coded redditors and even historians say not to read Mein Kampf

>it's not a good source! read biographies of Hitler instead
>it sucks and is long-winded
>it's a bad source

It's Hitler in his own words explaining his ideology, it's absolutely necessary for understanding Hitler and Nazi Germany. idk why it's constantly stated that you should not read it.

>>17851365
Because Hitler retained copyright on it until he died and he made money from every single copy that was sold. Including the millions the Nazi party and then government bought and handed out.

>>17851434
Name 5 people who call Mein Kampf a bad source.

>>17851443
I don't know how else to say this but the internet is full of this discouragement of reading it. That it is stupid, badly written, a waste of time, and you should rely on biographies of Hitler instead. This is also the case for university classes on Nazism and WW2. Mein Kampf is almost never assigned reading.

>>17851461
Look at this entire reddit thread, and before you dismiss it as reddit there are many academics who said the same. It's kind of an academic and cultural consensus that it should not be read.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/l0bc7t/is_mein_kampf_worth_reading/

>To be clear, Mein Kampf is a primary source document that one must eventually engage with when studying Hitler, but it really is not your first stop, nor your second or third stop. It is more your very optional 15th stop after you've read a really solid biography or two (Ian Kershaw's duology is a good one to pick up), some general histories of the Third Reich (Richard Evans' trilogy is the 'go to' recommendation), and some more specialized works that really dig into the the topic of Nazism, like Tooze's "Wages of Destruction" or perhaps Rees' "The Holocaust".

>>17851365
Every political movement has irrational beliefs that people have to pretend are true as a kind of loyalty shit-test, like "diversity", across America Police, fire and other government departments get sued if not enough people of color can pass their written tests while businesses have to hire or promote incompetent and unqualified PoC or face frivolous discrimination lawsuits.

And what was so "schizo" about Mein Kampf? That "international finance" is conspiring to destroy Germany? Doesn't sound far off from what actually happened. At worst his assumptions were inaccurate, maybe it wasn't like the illuminati with a cabal of jews at the top orchestrating everything, but his predictions have panned out in any case. In Germany today illegal immigrants who rape white kids only get probation while politicians are all "so what" if the native German population is declining. Even if you believe "race is skin deep" or "NOOO HE'S MUSLIM! HE'S A HECKIN' OPPRESSED VICTIMARINO" or whatever, Hitler has basically been proven right.

>>17851468
>>17851461
Here's another discouraging others from reading it until they've read multiple secondary sources.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1jft7hn/how_can_i_ethically_study_mein_kampf_in_english/

>The linked comments are fantastic. I'd like to approach this from a novel point of view and actually discuss my personal experience reading the book, as someone who studies Nazism. I first read Mein Kampf far too early in my career, and it took me years to "unlearn" what I'd read in it. That doesn't mean it's totally devoid of value, but quite bluntly the book will poison your understanding of the subject unless you have a lot of context for it.

>>17851468
That..that litterally says you MUST engage with it
>>17851472
This says it has value.

Anon, you are aware that reading secondary sources first rather that diving into the primary without context is the standard way of doing things, right?

>>17851357 (OP)
Hitler confirmed gay Incel. All he wanted was to paint buildings and touch sweaty working class males.

>>17851470
Right see exactly, Mein Kampf is exactly like a schizopost like this one

>>17851357 (OP)
this is historic. the man struggled. and in the end, he died.
but you cant kill an idea.

>>17851365
Cause thats how Hitler made his money.

>>17851542
HH

Top 3 book of all time.

Anyone who hasn't read it, go read it. It's revolutionary.

>>17851542
Post heilpic and demonstrate how his idea lives.

>>17851562
Alternative for Deutschland

>>17851564
Where do they post their heilpics?

>>17851564
>a party with a retarded dyke at its helm is carrying Hitler's legacy
Close Germany now, it's over.

>>17851357 (OP)
>Mein Kampf was published 100 years ago today.
really nigga it just had to be my fucking birthday KYS hitter

>>17851365
Unironcially it was welfare for hitler.

>>17851365
Because it was literally a way for Hitler to print momey by making his private book state mandated to buy and print hundreds of thousands of copies

I doubt most who owned it even read it. Just owning it and having it to show you’re a dedicated party member is more the point than actually reading it

>>17851564
Dritte Weg and Heimat are better.

>>17851512
No such thing as a gay incel.
Inceldom is the curse of the heterosexual with standards

>>17851357 (OP)
>Having expressed critiques of the Nazis and planned a Hitler parody under the title Mein Krampf (My Cramp), he experienced great difficulties and was blacklisted by the Nazi regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reimann_(writer)#Biography

Nazis were left breathing after WWII by a miracle after what they did.

>>17851357 (OP)
ln the end he won..

>>17852228
Most Nazis weren’t punished and got influential government jobs :)

It was a hundred years ago today
Der Fuhrer wrote what I should say
it's stupid and it's vile
but guaranteed to make you smile
so let me introduce to you
the shit you've read for all these years:
anons very lovely nazi post

>>17853706
not in east germany tho. most were purged and left penniless

>>17853706
These are largely the same types who were involved in the 20th July plot.

Actual NatSocs like Otto Ernst Remer, Pino Rauti, Giorgio Almirante, and Oswald Mosley didn't support NATO