Mein Kampf, By Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf is a book written by the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. It is an autobiographical manifesto which was originally written in German and published on July 18, 1925; containing about 720 pages by its publisher Eher Verlag. This book which was translated into several languages is followed by its successor ‘Zweites Buch’ which was unpublished. Although the book is thought to have been written by Hitler himself, he never actually sat down and wrote it extensively but rather dictated it extensively to his deputy Rudolf Hess while pacing around his cell in his prison from 1923 to 1924 and later continued at an inn at Berchtesgaden. The book basically talks about Hitler’s youth, his early days in the Nazi party, his future plans for his …show more content…
His whole volume gives way to many criticisms and controversies especially due to its racist content and historical effect of Nazism upon Europe during World War II and the Holocaust. The book did not only face criticism from their Nazi opponents but also the Italian dictator and infact a Nazi ally Benito Mussolini was also very critical of the book stating that it was a ‘boring tome that I have never been able to read’. In the Second World War, Winston Churchill felt that after Hitler’s ascension to power, no other book deserved intensive scrutinizing. Even the American literary theorists Kenneth Burke wrote that it revealed the underlying message of aggressive intent. Due to the party's poor showing in the 1928 elections, Hitler believed that the reason for his loss was the public's misunderstanding of his ideas. And then retired to Munich to dictate a sequel to Mein Kampf to expand on its ideas, with more focus on foreign policy. When Mein Kampf was originally published people had been hoping for a juicy autobiography or a behind-the-scenes story of the Beer Hall Putsch. What they got were hundreds of pages of long, hard to follow sentences and wandering paragraphs composed by a self-educated man. But after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, millions of copies were sold. T ’was considered proper to own a copy and to give one to newlyweds, high school graduates, or to celebrate any similar occasion but they hardly read from cover to cover. Albeit it made him rich, Hitler would later express regret that he produced Mein Kampf, considering the extent of its revelations. On 3 February 2010, the Institute of Contemporary History (ICH) in Munich announced plans to republish an annotated version of the text, for educational purposes in schools and universities, in 2015, when the copyright currently held by the