Mein Kampf: Hitler's Forewarning Autobiography

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Published on Sep 20, 2022
Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf while imprisoned after a failed coup dâ€™Ã©Â·tat of the Bavarian government. The autobiography espouses his racial views and clearly references extermination, indicating future plans for a "final solution."

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Today's Daily Dose short history film covers Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf, which foreshadowed the horrors of Nazi Germany and World War Two. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding:

Today on The Daily Dose, Mein Kampf.

After his failed attempt to take control of the Bavarian government in an infamous coup dâ€™Ã©Â·tat, Adolph Hitler wrote the first volume of Mein Kampf during his confinement at Landsberg Prison, dictated by his loyal friend and fellow revolutionary, Rudolph Hess. Translated into the English as â€œMy Struggle,â€ Hitlerâ€™s autobiographical Mein Kampf reminisces about his time in Vienna, when at first he was tolerant of the Jews and Slavs he met there, dismissing the antisemitic press as unworthy of his consideration. As his 400-plus page diatribe presses on, however, Hitlerâ€™s views about Jews and non-Aryan races would devolve into full-on racism, furthering the longstanding fabrication about a Jewish plot to control the world.

In Hitlerâ€™s view, the German state was not an economic or social entity, but a racial one, affirming that the only way to revitalize Germany was an insistence on Aryan purity and the removal of non-Aryan races. He also called for Lebensraum or â€œliving space,â€ which saw the need for Germany to expand eastward into Russia by pushing out or eradicating the Slavic people. Hitler went on to write that "the nationalization of our masses will succeed only when, aside from all the positive struggle for the soul of our people, their international poisoners are exterminated,â€ making a clear reference to his future plans for Hitlerâ€™s â€œFinal Solution.â€

While Hitlerâ€™s first volume of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 to little fanfare or sales, his second volume published in 1927 to equally unimpressive sales focused on his views on national socialism and the need for a lone authoritarian dictator to steer the course of a revitalized Germany. Mein Kampfâ€™s dismal sales numbers tipped upwards after Hitler came to power in 1933, rising so dramatically in popularity and sales that newly-married couples were generally given a copy as a wedding gift, filling Hitlerâ€™s personal coffers with $27,000,000.00 in royalties in todayâ€™s currency. Once in power, Hitler tried to distance himself from Mein Kampf in a number of published articles, dismissing the volumes as his â€œfantasies behind bars,â€ making Mein Kampf an early indicator of the horrors to come.

And there you have it, Hitlerâ€™s Mein Kampf, today on The Daily Dose.