mwin kampf a book review
After some debate, I decided to tackle Mein Kampf by Adolph Hitler, which I thought would be interesting to review. I have read this book when I was fifteen, and I came to an understanding that in order to really understand this book, you have to read it mre than once. Mein Kampf, which translates as "My Struggle," is divided into two volumes. Volume One is titled "A Reckoning." Which poses a question, what is Hitler reckoning with? The book reveals that he is reckoning with reality, basically, and the fact that the Jews are in that reality. It seems that Hitler struggles with the Jewish topic when he was young, and that made him wonder if they were not ultimately going to be a cause for the destruction of the White race. He was convinced that the Jewish people were set apart only by religion and not race. Hitler voices his dislike for the Jewish people quite clearly when he says; "The fact that they had, as I believed, been persecuted on this account sometimes almost turned my distaste at unfavorable remarks about them into horror." Hitler figured that the Anti-Semitic publications at the time were a result of jealousy towards these people, and in order to better educate himself, he began reading anti-Semitic pamphlets, and bega
n to feel absolutely uncertain on where he stood on the iccue. In reading his book, it is evident that Hitler was an expert on psychology, psychological warfare, and brainwashing. For example, he predicted that Eastern Europeans would soon become so disgusted with communism that they would cast it off, no matter how bloody the struggle. Hitler probably knew more about the human mind and behavior, and how to control both, than almost anyone else of his time. "Moreover, the tone of most of these pamphlets was such that I became doubtful again, because the statements made were partly superficial and the proofs extraordinarily unscientific. Hitler's writing style, as tedious it is to read and as full of lengthy prose that seems to go nowhere, narrative that doesn't seem to have a point, and numerous hard to understand metaphors, I find it very personal and heartfelt. The subject appeared so enormous and the accusations were so far-reaching that I was afraid of dealing with it unjustly and so I became again anxious and uncertain. Hitler laid out an extensive propaganda plan in his book, particularly in chapters called War Propaganda, and Propaganda and Organization, a plan that would change the history of the world. For weeks, and indeed for months, I returned to my old way of thinking. He interprets also the rise of the early 1920's Nazi party. Was there any form of filth or profligacy, particularly in cultural life, without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut even cautiously into such an abscess, you found, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light -- a kike!" A lot of Volume One is about what Hitler saw as the betrayal of the German people during World War I. And most especially when not some little negro nation or other is involved, but the Germanic mother of life, which has given the present-day world its cultural picture. He really pours himself out onto the pages. And for world power she needs that magnitude which will give her the position she needs in the present period, and life to her citizens. If one takes the time to go over his tedious and lengthy narratives, it is evident that underneath it all is not a crazed lunatic who lacks any direction and motivation, fueled only by anger, but a calculating and methodological mind that sees potential in almost every aspect of the society.
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