Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #337 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-21
• Binding: Paperback
• 615 pages

Customer Reviews

I agree with about 75% if I'm honest!!!!!!
Remember, the allies, Christians and Jews have been the ones to write the history books and have had an monopoly on our modern image of Hitler. 'Mein Kampf' is the most unbiased book ever written about Hitler and Nazism as it was written by Hitler. So dont judge a man on his deeds until you hear his side of the story, and most importantly, WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF IT ALL. We all know what Hitler did, (we arent allowed to forget, as any mention of been proud to be white, we are quickly reminded!!)I recommend this book as it is a fascinating read (a little boring when he talks about German politics) but most of it is very good. He even talks a lot about England and the British Empire and he talks about wanting to gain land for his own people (including slaves). The difference was England had an empire based on greed, Hitler wanted an empire to provide land for his RACE to prosper and multiply in a future 'possible' race war in Asia. (the English came from Germany, so this would have included us)

Hitler killed many people he saw as unworthy to breed (terrible- I know) but it was to provide a healthy nation for the future. Hitler encouraged mental and physical health and rejected city life for clean rural living providing an environment or healthy people to prosper. (look how fat and unhappy our kids are today) Sure he hated the Jews and blamed them for everything thats wrong with the world (read the book to find out why). He rejects foreigners, partly because of rascism, but also to avoid mixing with other races into oblivion. And he was a cultured man who loved NATIVE germanic culture including the Pagan warrior religion of The ancient Germans, Vikings and my English/germanic anscestors.

Hitler rejected globalisation to protect his nation/race identity and survival, to put it bland he wanted to avoid what had happened to modern Britain and USA where the world has invaded us through peaceful immogration and its a sin to be proud of who we are, as we are too often branded as Rascists. Make your own mind up about Hitler and Nazism, try reading about it from the man himself.

I thought it would be a lot worse.
I got this book because it's one of those historical things you have to read. My best friend had told me it was basically Hitler's "livejournal". I expected it to be hateful rantings the way some people have claimed it is in these reviews here.

I did not find it to be such at all. The book makes some very, currently relevant criticisms of aspects of modern political systems. There is no pretending it doesn't. Having read this book I cannot say that Hitler got nothing right, he was clearly very intelligent and he clearly got quite a few things right. Of course the anti-semitism is there. What does one expect from a German nationalist in those days? Even so I think that there are things we can learn from this book, despite some of the bad things that were done by the Third Reich. Additionally it is quite engaging and entertaining. I am glad I read it. The edition I have has the most laughable commentary, all the footnotes make the most petty swipes at Hitler. As if the fact that he caused a horrific war and slaughtered people in death camps was not enough? No I am sorry, this is a good book. It says interesting and often worthwhile things. Murdering people wholesale in camps bad. Mein Kampf... actually quite good. We need to learn to separate things before we reach a point where all good things are tainted by the bad they've been associated with and the only possible socially acceptable thing is catatonia.

Fascinating Beyond Words
History is enraging in the way it always tends to pander to current prejudice and contemporary political need. We are all so wise and good at this point in history and can pretend that we are far too well-educated and morally pure, that nothing so bad is going to be done in our name, on our watch. We are so frantic in our wish to be distanced from the sustained and systematic evils of history, that we condemn the guilty as geniuses, or more remarkably, fools. Those who cling to their denial would prefer that books like this should be banned, as they bear witness to not only Hitler's evil but the pan-European common-denominator, he aspired to tap into.

It is morally convenient to believe that Hitler invented the evil aims laid out in this book. Hitler did not invent racism or anti-Semitism, he merely exploited what was already there and was actually voted into power by those who shared those views - many still do.

Published in 1925 & 1926, the two parts of the book gave fair warning of his aims and his fanatical hatreds. Across the world, many read his words and had their own feelings and hatreds confirmed. These people ranged across every class in most societies, and definitely from top to the bottom of the British social strata. It must be noted that even having been aware of Hitler's promises and even in the knowledge of seeing him carry them out, the country was willing to look the other way. It was just total chance that Churchill became leader and not Halifax - our moral superiority is based on mere luck not natural goodness. Our jingoistic pride, a deluded vanity.

Hitler's ranting coalescence of the hatreds and prejudices still bears witness to the heart of darkness of humanity, which shows no sign of going away.

Let this book be read and stand as a warning of what still continues to inspire many people, beneath the veneer of our "civilization".

Once you have read Hitler's poisonous rantings, you are forever aware that the same raving appeal to the common denominator, can still be heard or read, in the words of those who likewise wish to make us the sponsors of the contemporary fantatic's road to historical immortality.

Knowing who said it all before, might guard us against such folly.