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• Amazon Sales Rank: #141542 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-14
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• Binding: Paperback
• 460 pages

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Mein Kampf - Official Nazi Translation
It is now more than sixty years since, to quote Winston Churchill, Nazism was "blasted from the face of the Earth!"; but the words Adolf Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf are still powerful enough to stir the passions. Within it's pages, Hitler predicts that the world dominating European civilization into which he had been born was in fact "a world on the brink of disaster."; and lays out a programme which, if implimented; might have saved that now vanished world along with much, if not all; of the political and military power it then held.

Hitler had spent four awful years fighting as a common soldier in the trenches; and loathed the shallow, devisive nationalism which had led to the Great War of 1914-1918, in which he had lost so many good friends and comrades. His answer was racialism, which most at the time saw as a unifying force. All Europe's sons were of the same Aryan/European blood after all. If they could be taught to look upon each other as the brothers they truly were; such fracticidal slaughters might be avoided in the future. And as he looked to the future; Hitler, like the Roman of old; saw the Tiber foaming with much blood.

Compared to the America's, Asia or Africa, the European continent is tiny; more an Asian peninsula than a continent at all; and virtually emptied of the mineral resources/raw materials needed by any modern industrial power. This was well known to Europe's rulers who, during the preceding centuries had used their military dominance to establish Empires throughout the world; the purpose of which was to ensure that Europe's industrial centres continued to receive these essential supplies. But Empire's can only be maintained by military force, which rely on manpower; and the restricted landspace was already impacting on the European birthrate. As the Asian/African people's continued to multiply, it was inevitable that the balance of power would shift. Europe would first lose her colonies, then see her industrial lead disappear; and finally be swamped by the Third World's ever multiplying millions.

As is explained in these pages, Hitler's answer came in two stages. First unite Europe into Der Grosseraum; from the Atlantic in the West to the Ural Mountains in the East, with the Mediterranean as the southern border. The second stage was to create Festung Europa by fortifying the frontier regions. Within this Aryan/European homeland the Ukrainian grainfields would guarantee the food supply, enabling social policy to encourage an increase in the birthrate through a graded family allowance system. Every newly wed couple would be given a mortgage sized wedding present by the state; with the birth of each child, 25% of this loan would be written off. With a rising population, the balance of power would swing back in Europe's favour. Demographic projections of that time indicated that by 2050 Europeans would make up more than 50% of total world population. The threat to Western world domination posed by Asia's hungry millions would have been neutralized.

We all know the course of 20'th century history. European nationalism did not yield to the racist doctrine of Aryan brotherhood. Despite Hitler's prediction that "We have only to kick in the door, and the whole rotten system will come crashing down!", the Soviet communist system didn't actually collapse until the mid 1980's. In America the capitalists had plans of their own for 'The American Century'; which did not include a powerful united Europe dominating the world. While many of old Europe's imperialist aristocracies actively supported Hitler's plans; the power of International Finance ensured that a confederation of the French and British Empires, the USA and USSR, crushed Nazi Germany within six years, despite the pre-emptive blitzkrieg that knocked France out of the war.

In Europe we are now some fifty years into Hitler's worst nightmare. Europe's military/economic power never recovered from the suicidal civil war of 1939-1945, and the old empires are long gone, as is Soviet Russia. Since the 1950's Europe's population has been actually declining, even as millions of abortions are carried out each year. By contrast, India's burgeoning population has made her into a world power since independence in 1947, now possessing her own space research programme; whilst China's billion strong workforce has already built the industrial powerhouse which will eclipse America as world superpower within twenty years. Following them both are Japan and the Asian Tigers, all of whom have growth rates that dwarf European efforts.

To conclude this review I shall quote Patrick J Buchanan, senior adviser to three American Presidents, twice runner for the Republican nomination and Reform Party candidate in 2000:-
"All about us we can see clearly now that the West is passing away. In a single century, all the great houses of continental Europe have vanished. Not one European nation, save Muslim Albania, has a birthrate that will enable it to survive through the century. As a share of world population, people of European ancestry have been shrinking for three generations. The character of every Western nation is being irremediably altered as each undergoes an unresisted invasion from the Third World. We are slowly disappearing from the Earth. Having lost the will to rule, Western man seems to be losing the will to live...." Mein Kampf Official Nazi Translation

Who won World War Two? My grandad used to say that we did....

Even the Publisher Thinks This is a Bad Translation
Michael Ford, who self-publishes this under his "Elite Minds" logo, writes the following about this translation in his "Mein Kampf: A Translation Controversy":

This version "had many gross misspellings, punctuation errors, and grammar errors. Apparently, an English speaking Nazi Party member took James Murphy's unpolished translation and tried to finish it. The result is very poor and this may be part of the reason it was not more widely distributed."

Why would one want to buy such a bad translation? If you are really interested in "Mein Kampf," this will be marginally useful. But since it never saw distribution, and by the publisher's own statement is filled with errors, all but a few should go with Ralph Manheim's translation, the one used by scholars in the field.