@@gregbors8364 Depends on the teacher really. I had a couple of pretty good ones. Made even the dry parts interesting by mixing in stories of "normal, relatable people".
Also, the people who just want to cover it up and not talk about it because they’re either embarrassed or afraid of offending either side. It happened. We need to be able to discuss it.
I forget who said it, but I read a wonderful quote. "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." You don't get the exact same events but they definitely seem very similar.
I have a copy. The lady at the thrift store where I got it was astounded anyone would buy it. I told her "you can't argue against a thing if you don't know about it."
I’m still surprised one of my hometown’s high school libraries had a copy of this book on their shelves. It had the swastika on it and everything. I’m even more surprised it ended up in my possession. I’d never read it, but still, different times.
I actually read it in high school. It was required reading for my AP History class. But that wouldn't happen now. I graduated high school in California in 1997.
It's a great read. Nothing controversial really. Just a man who was proud of his country and tired of the central banking systems parasitic relationship with his nation. I think EVERYONE can empathize with this simple sentiment
@@sticksnstonespatriot1728i mean, he had chapters about anti-slavs and anti-jews opinions on his book, even at some point he started to blame jews for everything
When I spent a semester studying in Southern France, I took a class on Vichy France. The professor told us a story about how he needed a copy of Mein Kampf for his research. Several local bookstores wouldn't sell it to him. When he finally found one willingbto order him a copy, they insisted he take it in a plain bag so that if he lost it on a bus or subway no one would know it came from their store.
My grandfather was a WWII veteran and staunch US patriot. Among his library he owned a copy of Mein Kampf and Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. He insisted that all his grandchildren read them so we could see how easy it was to use intellectualism to convince people to be wholly evil and so we could identify public "hate" speech that was shrouded in ideology that sounded good.
If your grandfather was a WW2 veteran he was most likely born between 1890-1915, and was 100% a raging racist and anti semite and most likely fully supported the nazis and hitler.
I remember an interesting segment in a documentary I saw on Mein Kampf. An elderly man remembered being six years old and hearing his father talking to his friends at the dinner table. He snuck into the room to see what the grown-ups were talking about, and he was surprised to see his father holding up a copy of Mein Kampf. His friends were saying, “Hitler isn’t going to start a war. He’d be crazy to even try!” His father pointed to his copy of Mein Kampf and said, “Read this book! It’s right here, in his own words!” That’s the best argument against censorship I’ve ever heard.
It’s the same with Putin and Trump. “He wouldn’t do X! He’d be crazy to try!” “But he said right here that he’d do it.” “He wasn’t being literal.” Yes, he was. He was.
@@mrjones2721 when did Trump ever say that he'd start a war? I'd heard him say that he'd finish but never heard him say that he'd start. as far as Putin, we all know how thats going.
@@wedgie502T😮umps a fascist dictator wannabe like Putin, Hitler and especially Mousseline. triumph practically copies his demeanor and platitudes. . Trump is a 2 bit used car salesman, conman!
He wrote a book exactly laying out how he wants things to do. Then the Allies expressed shock and disbelief when he began to do exactly what he said he'd do.
It's crazy how in a sense though morally we'd love Mein Kampf to be banned, it is critical that the book not be banned. Like that line in LOTR, "Some things that shouldn't be forgotten, were lost."
100% this. If discussion of a topic is not allowed in the public sphere then it is only talked about behind closed doors with no one to oppose the position. That is a huge reason for the extremism we are seeing on a variety of topics in the US.
I was told in Waterstone book shop (UK) that "...we should never be like the nazis and should burn this book..." I replied to this silly girl- a part time worker who was, unbelievably, studying modern history at university- that the nazis would have been proud of her plan to burn books she didn't like. Oh the irony.
Ironically, Hitler did no such thing because he was lazy. He occasionally had others read stuff for him, but he always insisted they give him a cliff notes version tailored to his beliefs because he was a narcissist with an incredibly fragile ego, and his bootlickers always indulged it out of self-preservation.
I considered history to be boring when I was a kid and thought all that stuff was soooo far in the past. Now, as an adult, I realize that, although some of it is, history is happening all around us, every day. I started watching Simon’s and other’s videos about historical figures and events in the last few years and now I understand more than I ever learned in school. Thank you, Simon and writers!
I’m of the thinking that is on purpose. There are several things, some even identity based, that keep you tied up until you’re too old to shape a life of resistance and have a mortgage and kids.
Hitler: "We need a single ruler under which the ranks shall fall in line and his every whim and order obeyed without question!" "Oh ok, cool. So...who should that be?" Hitler: "AHHH, WELL, I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED! I HAPPEN TO KNOW A GUY..."
@@timothyhouse1622 Not according to the shelf of history books in my den. His written command of German was not good, to the point where it was heavily edited by one of his mentors. He was awkward in social settings. He was a failure at everything he did until WWI. It wasn’t until German Workers Party was failing that he decided he could provide leadership.
@@frankesposito2182 His military superior assigned him to look into the GWP. At first he was horrified at the “club” atmosphere of the GWP. I think it was Anton Drexler who was in charge at that time and found Hitler to be a good agitator. Eventually, he took over after major infighting.
I remember being in a tattoo studio and noticing a copy of mien kampf on the bookshelf. I asked my artist(a Hispanic male) why he had that book....he said to me " because I respect history and want to learn from it" I borrowed it and read it. Now I urge every person to do the same. Knowing humanity's past enemies from the inside out will save us from future evils.
Sure, like, demonize the ones doing somerhing against the anti human agenda? The media was no different 100 years ago than today: mouthpieces of special interests.
Out of curiosity, did it say anything about how certain modern day people control every aspect of our lives and secretly control our government taxes going to certain land giving them all the benefits we don’t have ourselves ?
@@leaongat7549 No. He just blames the Jews for anything and everything he hated. Capitalism? It's the Jews. Communism? It's the Jews. Modern art that he didn't like? The Jews. That's what Mein Kampf is: a list of grievances from a jibbering loser.
I read this years ago - I want to say college where we were required to read original source material. Turgid. But an absolute blueprint for what would follow. Which leads me to wonder - how could anyone have pretended 'this isn't so bad'. We make far too many excuses for all sorts of outlandish and absolutist political statements today and then act so surprised when the results align with the professed ideology.
Because this all happened in a time FAR before information was anywhere near immediately accessible. And back then, nobody in their right mind would ever think that the little stump of a man that wrote it could ever fulfill anything in it. People spend FAR too much time painting past events with the brush that comes from years of studying history. We know NOW that something like this should have been monitored. And we know that BECAUSE of what happened then.
@@captainspaulding5963 If only Google AI could have rooted out this man, and others like him, and deleted them before they ever had the chance to do anything. The holocaust would not have happened and Trump never would have been president.
My dad had a german copy of mienkampf that was given to him by a former member of the hitler youth. A man whose daughter ended up converting to Judaism and whose friend (my dad) married a jewish woman (my mom). My dad kept it around as a reminder, as a kid he looked at me and quoted the book from german (which he spoke fluently) "evil will tell you what they intend to do, never silence evil from speaking because you'll never be prepared"
@@captainahab4325 As long they believe the dictator is on "their side" it must be OK, I guess. Forgetting that it can backfire. In Stalin times, the executioners often became the executed later on.
It's not like Germany at the time needed a lot of convincing. These ideas of nationalism and antisemitism were widespread after The Great War: "Jews and Social Democrats stabbed us in the back" and so on. The public was primed up with tons of grievances and resentments against just about everyone. This book was merely the match custom made for this particular powder keg.
That book is the seed of all hatred. Now look what happens now. Hate has gone wildfire. He knew his plan works because he what the world on fire with hatered he poured out.
@@ThePeoplesElboww I don't have the time, I just want to understand what's so wrong about it? To me it seems like a bunch of teachings about the Jewish faith and ethics, nothing harmfull.
@@caj1235 basically it condones p3333dphillla and grape. And if a Jew grapes a gentile girl then the girl must be killed so the Jew doesn’t have to see her again. Now, there is a lot more so please do some research instead of typing paragraphs on RU-vid about how you “don’t have the time”. You have the time to type paragraphs on RU-vid and read my response so stop being a moron.
@@caj1235 it literally equates people who aren't Jewish to pigs and that that gives them the authority to swindle and cheat other humans. And the parts where it says Jesus is burning in human excrement and that he was a heathen.
Maybe this is a first of a series that studies books?Other books that should be examined like the communist manifesto, what is to be done, the little red book, the Bible, the Koran, Torah, Wealth of Nations, ect...
I’ve read the Communist Manifesto. It comes across as a bit naive, but does not include any hateful rants. It basically claims that once capitalism is destroyed, the goodness of human nature will take over and make everything unicorns and rainbows. The overbearing oppression in Communist governments does not come from this book.
I know its necessary to summarize his main points and beliefs, but one thing that was more interesting for me is how he tells his journey from being normal to adopting these beilefs and the beliefs altimately dominating him whilst before he considered them but thought they were bad...That for me is the interesting part, from thinking the ideas are terrible to going to war for them
Great job, writer of this episode! 6 Years ago a big history and philosophy publishing house in The Netherlands recieved backlash for publishing a new translation of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of The West, as this book is deemed "undemocratic". I remember walking past a bookshop where the publishing house paid for advertisement posters to be put outside the venue. They read: "Why would you only read books that you agree with?" As a scholar in history and philosophy of culture I can attest that it is of vital importance that we read books that contain things we don't agree with. That is why my book shelve contains several works of an alt-right academic philosopher whose views are diametrically opposed to mine. It's like that saying: keep your friends near, but your enemies nearer. One has to properly understand their opponent in order to be able to defeat them or, as in this case, so that history will not repeat itself.
@@TerpsNtacosI hope u don't assume that the Manifesto, a compellingly written but doctrinaire polemical tract intended as propaganda in revolutionary France, represents the best political thought of Marx & Engels, much less of 19C socialism generally.
I read this book due to interest in psychology. The problem with average Germans during inter-war is that they had a bitter defeated mindset. So when a maniac guy that promise glory and destruction for the nation came around, most people only focused on the glory part and not the latter.
@captainblacktooth371 I was about to make a comment on how insane it is that so many people believed utter nonsense. You cited Trump and brought me back to the present. QAnon, sovereign citizens, anti vaxxers, flat-earthers... Thank God there's no creature with Hitler's cunning to see all that and unify them all again, this time with social media.
It’s not just that they were defeated. The British blockaded Germany throughout most of the war and after the armistice. Germany was starving for years. It was so bad that in the 1920s and 1930s, you could tell which kids were born during the war years because they were so small and under developed. Germany also had to rebuild their nation. The entire governmental system was changed: they went from having a Kaiser to having democratic elections, no one knew what type of party to establish, radical ideas were coming from every side (right and left). Much of their colonies were dissolved and given to the allies. And just to make this worse, the conditions imposed at Versailles almost ensured that animosity, conspiratorial thinking, and scapegoating would continue. Germany did not start ww1 just like Russia didn’t start it, England didn’t start it, France didn’t start it. This was a conflict between austro-Hungary and Serbia, and the diplomatic and international conditions of the time (alliance system, the fact that people weren’t avoiding war) all allowed for this conflict to happen, but Germany gets blamed. Oh, and the 1919 influenza pandemic which killed just as many as the war itself. The nazi party genuinely seemed like a viable option because they sold the idea that they would create a “greater community” of sorts that took care of each other-every family gets a car and access to vacation days at fancy resorts for cheap and every married couple gets a cheque for being married (and also mein kampf, a wedding gift from the father himself), and paid time off and they fixed the economy, industrialized Germany, upped agriculture. And also they were sticking up for Germany when it appeared to a lot of Germans like they were being bullied and controlled by the allies. Now tell me, given the state of our world right now and what happened with covid and the wars in the east, are we acting any different? All I’m saying is the average German, at least at first, becomes less confusing when you put everything into context on how they could appeal to the nazi party.
Decades ago when I was in undergrad, I had to read Mein Kampf for a course. I had the bright orange copy with the title and author in 30+ font in gothic lettering on the cover. So I was on the subway and then the bus reading. In those days I looked a bit like Charlie Manson with a long black leather fall coat. Not only was I reading a very conspicuous copy of Hitler's book, I was highlighting it. As I thought of it as just another textbook, I couldn't figure out why my fellow passengers were looking at me funny. And I went to York University in Toronto. Those of you who know will understand how bad those optics were.
"OH such terrible optics, reading a book about what we did to the natives of the place where I'm reading the book" people and their holier-than-thou attitudes are sickening. "It's OK for us to do it but not someone on the other side of the planet" foh
Don’t know why this was never mentioned, but the quote about not forgetting history was said by George Santayana, the Spanish-American philosopher and writer.
I knew he was the source of the quote.And he was right. I never read Mein Kampf. My dad might have read the book, because he said the same things about it you have.When WW 2 came ,he had a deferment because he was working at Briggs and Stratton in Milwaukee but told grandpa he was going in anyways Said he wanted to kick Hitler,s butt.He had relatives in Germany some who were for Hitler and others against him, .Never brought anything Nazi home as a souvenir after the war unlike some guys might have Retired in 1975 after 33 years in the military.
Probably should have been cause for a discussion rather than a suspension-Kids should always be encouraged to slake their curiosity (short of harming self or others), not be punished for it.
@@froggystyle642I need more context on why you got suspended of course it's uncomfortable but it needs to be discussed in its historical context. That being said 6th I think 6rh grade was when my school had us reading the diary of Ann Frank and Mauz. We really didn't get into the political part of it more than the fact it happened and was bad. Honestly that's why I think a trip to the Holocaust museum should be required for American students
there is a Dutch writer whom has written a book on the topic of how nazi's gained so much momentum and popularity. the book is called "het verboden boek" ( the forbidden book) written by Ewoud Kieft. its a great read for those whom would like to read an (good) interpetation of mein kampf without reading it yourself, because mein kampf is a very unpleasant book to read.. the book has tons of footnotes that bring some insight, nuance and noted resources.
I have a copy of Mein Kampf, I also own a copy of the quran. I know which book contains more violent and anti jewish retoric and it's not the former. Yet the latter is widely available and beyond criticism it seems.
@@dirtysiouxsnooks33 not that i'm aware of, you might be lucky to find an online translated version but i don't think you'll find a print version in english
Simon: "When one thinks of an evil book, one naturally springs to mind before all others..." Me: "The Necronomicon." Simon: "...Mein Kampf." Me: "...but legends say it was written by the Dark Ones. Written in human blood and bound in human skin..."
A friend of mine recently went to his local library, and asked if they had a copy of "Mein Kampf". The librarian gestured to a an aisle, and replied, "You should find a copy there, under fiction".
@@foxxy-3748lol what r u fucking talking about? patton died (of mysterious circumstances mind you) in 1945, the Korean war didnt start until 1950. youre thinking of Eisenhower 😂
Oh shit!! In alot of ways mustached man was absolutely right but how he went about it (mainly killing innocent children Anne Frank being one of the possibly millions) was just not it
My grandmother was a Gypsy a Roman Gypsy, and we used to watch documentary. She would say take him off and start crying. I couldn’t imagine my grandmother being the nicest person in the world, hating someone so much and then I found out who this man was I can only imagine my grandmother‘s terror.
Excellent Job. Yes Mein Kempf is a confusing book if you just read it as regular book but if you read looking through the lenses of looking backwards, it can make you wonder why a country so cultured as Germany could have fallen for him as he laid out everything he planned to do in it.
Because nobody actually read it. His fans were the illiterate, and it was like a bible to them. A bible that like US Evangelical they have never actually read.
@@Carewolf Actually, no, he was supported by the upper classes as well, who held fancy parties for him. Leading industrialists backed him as well, due to his hatred of communism. Bayer (the enormous chemical co.), the grandsons of Richard Wagner, etc.)
@@greeneyesms That was after he had swayed 50+% of the underclass, and swore off socialism. They supported him as counter to communism and thought they could control him, I doubt they ever bothered reading his book either, or they would have known his plans.
Bruh this is like saying Nietzsche's "Zarathustra" is to blame for Hitler's atrocities because in it, Nietzsce talks about an "Ubermensch" and Hitler saw that "Ubermensch" as himself. But you Americans love hating what you have never even read.
In 1968 At aged 10 I noticed this book on my dads Bookshelf . I asked " why do you have Hitlers book " My father said " know your enemy" and walked away. I read it that weekend.
@@Richard-od7yd . . . LOL. . why is that antisemitic? And what's a semite? And yes it is claimed that he said that. And based on many of his quotes and comments it's quite clear what he thought so it is actually you that is trying to rewrite history.
I read it and to me his words show a man who was driven mad by a combination of ptsd from WWI, an insatiable drive to prove to himself and to his father that he wasn’t incompetent, romantic success largely lacking, struggling to make a living as a laborer, and a strong belief that the culture he grew up in and loved was dying.
@@hjvdd Indeed. One strong quality he had was his unstoppable drive. I’ve often wondered how he could’ve used that to benefit humanity if only had a few things in his life been just a little different.
I hate to say it, but he was right about the last part. People actively are abandoning traditions, values and cultures in the name of fame and money. We have been materialised and dehumanized.
Something I’ve never understood; how exactly was the “superior race” determined? Did someone just see a blonde white guy with a big chin and say “Yup, that’s the best”?
The “superior race” was determined by Darwinian biologists at the time. Hitler didn’t invent this “science”! He merely exploited the vile science of the day. There was a very strong adherence to the notion of human evolution at the time that “demonstrated” a genetic and racial hierarchy. These ideas were highly popular among western academics. It was due to the fact that this hierarchy was already commonly accepted that his ideas were able to get off the ground. No one at the time would have accepted these ideas simply because Hitler said them. The “trust the science” crowd had already paved the way for Hitler.
@@frankphillips7436 Thanks for the answer!So those “scientists” determined that blonde white guys were the pinnacle of evolution? Sounds a lot like biased pseudoscience to me.
Notice the way that it posits that those who are not among the "naturally superior" and/or will or can not fight their way to the top DESERVE to be dispossessed, oppressed or eliminated -- and that those are the only two alternatives. So (a) blame the victim (b) make it so that the point is to get on top at all costs -- but this implies that the "struggle" will NEVER end since the only way to prevail is to always be fighting your way to the top and always asserting your superiority over some inferior. So whoever was not already on top would be at risk of being next chosen as a target.
When I was a junior in High School, I borrowed a copy of Mein Kampf from the school library. I was purely motivated out of curiosity; I didn't have a fascist mindset. As I recall, I mostly found it a bit tedious; I didn't come close to finishing. People looked at me a bit funny as I carried it around; my creative writing teacher - who was Jewish - was a bit disturbed, but he came up to me and said, "you read that, and see how hateful that book really is!" As I had a knack for writing, he eventually accepted that I was not simply the sort who would read it uncritically.
Having someone available and willing and able to teach it and teach it _well_ still isn't enough if those who most urgently need to learn would rather cram their fingers in their ears and scream LA LA LA LA LA.
Looking back, Hitler's rise to power is still one of the most fascinating topics we covered in school in History class. Wile radicalization of Germany and its politics was unavoidable after Versailles, it is mind-boggling that by sheer determination (grouned on hate and fanatism mind you) and exploiting a faulty constitution some random Austrian guy managed to take over Germany without force. With force meaning that he didn't start a civil war for his, what by German historians is rather called "Machtübernahme" (coming into power) than "Machtergreifung" (seizure of power/takeover). This man played the masses and (ab)used his political isnfluence to get himself into a position of absolute power, which sadly as we know resulted in the death of millions.
Here's a question. Mein Kampf was written in 1925. Would this still be considered as the most evil book in the world if not for the Holocaust? A lecturer I had once told the class that if Hitler had died in 1938, the year before WW2 started, he would have gone down as the greatest ruler in history.
I️ mean that is an interesting question if it’s in good faith. It is interesting to think about how Germany and WWII would have been affected if it weren’t for Hitler
Okay I'm getting tired of Hitler being known as the most evil anything. Everything associated with him is the most evil. And no this doesn't mean I'm a fan. But there's literally six other people who lived during his time and after that were equally evil and even got away with their crimes unlike Hitler. Stalin wrote a book and he is actually praised yet he did everything Hitler did and more. Same thing with Mao. In fact all of these people's actions and books were influenced by the king of evil Karl Marx. Saying Hitler and everything associated with him as being the most evil is just redundant and makes him look more than just another socialist leader promoting economics and beliefs that will always lead to evil and destruction.
Because as bad as those men were, Hitler stands out as a truly cartoonish villain brought to life--and what made it worse for many at the time was that he was a white European man born and raised into a Christian family, so they couldn't use racist rhetoric against him like they could with Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.
@@StephySon Well his views and influence has caused more pain and suffering on this planet than anything in such a short time. Not even a hundred years old and Marx's influence caused U.S.S.R massacres of millions, WWII. Red China. Cambodia. So you could say Marx is the most evil. I'm just saying that there's other people that could be considered more evil than Adolph. It's just that you have a group of evil people that were just as evil and got away with their crimes.
You know the most destructive weapon of mass destruction is the purposeful starvation of a people. Look at what happened in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Now there was a new book just released about "white rural rage". . . you should look at what those two guys had to say.
@@eatfrenchtoast sorry comrade, I didn't mean to step on your purty pink toes. How are things in the gulag? What do you prefer more about communism, the lack of individual freedoms or the chronic shortages of every day necessities?
@@AMH793 it's insanity but so is Mein Kampf. Marx and his musings has resulted in the death of more than 100 million people across the globe. Hitlers message, while nasty really only impacted Europe.
@@johnnycajon4858 "The UN 2030 Agenda envisages “a world of universal respect for human rights and human dignity, the rule of law, justice, equality and non-discrimination”". that's too much for you? 😂
@@pgabrieli Sadly most people parrot what they are told, especially when it comes to conspiracy theories. The self-proclaimed "free thinkers" who call everyone else "sheeple" are themselves sheep as they follow nonsensical ideas. Clinging onto real conspiracies like MK Ultra to propagate their fantasies.
Anybody who says Hitler was the most evil or his book was doesn't know their history very well. I'm sorry but I promise you that the "Prophet" Muhammad and his books were FAR MORE EVIL than Hitler ever hoped to be. You could combine all the death and suffering caused by Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and every other despotic ruler that ever lived and it wouldn't beat what Islam has done. This is a stupid title and you should have thought it out better. If you doubt me I have several hundred pages of notes on it. I study a lot of things. WWII history has been a fascination of mine for over 30 years. I've been studying Islam since 2001. I know them both incredibly well. You might as well but Hitler was an evil s**t no doubt, however, he didn't even manage to kill the number of people that Islam does every 2 decades (roughly) for over 1400 years. I bet you won't call them out though will you?
@@TaylorMade223 is this a “complaining about all the blatant, dare I️ say it, antisemitism in these comments”? Or a “the Jews are always paying ppl off for propaganda”? Cuz that second one means you’re crazy
Brother, please remember that WW2 was as terrible in Asia too, it is absolutely not correct and kinda evil to say that just the Nazis murdered 80 Million pro
People should know that maybe the book "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" gave origin to Mein Kampf specially with that ideology of the "Seven Mountains".
I’m assuming that if you meant this in any way other than supportive, then I️ think you would’ve specified that you don’t support it. So what on earth are you going on about?
When discussing Nazi ideology, it's oftentimes explained without any context. There's another layer to this book, in that it's deliberately building a mythology opposed to the Jewish religion. There are some editions of the book that show an upside down cross on it in form of a sword.
"Social Darwinism" is redundant. Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species" is incorrectly assumed to be about the evolution of species. It's actually about Eugenics. Hitler understood this and that's why Darwin's writings are the core of his doctrine and ideology.
One question that we thankfully don't have an answer to is what would happen if the Germans and Japanese of WW2 conquered enough land to eventually run into each other. Both regarded themselves as the 'master race', superior and above everyone else.
And yet Japanese Americans received reparations for their internment while the 11,000 Germans interned received nothing but the fear of retribution. And even today Japan can still maintain their ethnicity, race, culture, heritage, etc. as they don't let in all colors and creeds from all around the world to displace them like white people have been duped/guilted into doing. I never hear any Japanese being called an Asian Supremacist for their preference to keep Japan Japanese.
Somehow manages to make Germany an economic and military superpower during global depression within only a few years of taking power. Yes we should definitely read that book and how he did it.
Actually, he wrecked the economy by pouring *everything* into an all-or-nothing war while severing trade relations with all but Italy and (to a lesser extent) the USSR, to the point of where Germany was literally days away from economic collapse when he began his land-grabbing. The only way to fix that was through rampant looting of conquered nations, the idea being that the war would pay for itself. Unfortunately, most of that wealth was swiped by Hitler or his top cronies to personally enrich themselves, so they tried to make ends meet via slave labor. It wasn't enough. Hitler did not understand economics at all, nor did many of his cronies.
I remember reading through a bit of Mein Kampf out of curiosity in the bookstore many years ago. The first part was so boring and rambling that I couldn't get through much of it. I didn't want anyone to see me reading it though, so I was huddled over it in the back of the bookstore in an empty aisle, after which I slipped it back onto the shelf when nobody was looking. 😅 I'd like to give it a try again. It's important to know what the human mind is capable of, both good and evil.
I checked it out of the local public library while I was in high school. Only made it through the first three chapters. I saw it as the ramblings of an egomanic, and shortly returned it. After that, many times I wondered how many others gave it a similar treatment. This lack of daring to learn about uncomfortable things had a hand in the fruition of his vision. I plan on reading it with the understanding that all knowledge serves a purpose. Both sides must be understood to truly determine right from wrong.
@@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts Says the guy with a SDP icon, who's people sit at the same table as anarchists, Marxists and Communists. The ineptitude of the SDP failing to help its own people is one of the things that helped get Hitler appointed Chancellor. How's the social democratic welfare state treating the children of Germany now? How many of Germanys daughters have been raped? They are in danger of being ideologically then physically exterminated by the Immigrants who come to partake in the social redistribution of Germany's wealth to Muslims wealth.
@@plazima The bible is littered with God sanctioned violence. It has provided the blueprint for all manner of atrocities throughout the ages. If you don't believe me you could start by reading the book of Ezikiel and ask yourself if a person behaved like that today ( ie God ) He would be considered one of the most evil despots that had ever lived. Don't forget Hitler was a christian !!
@@plazima The Bible is littered with violence and God sanctioned atrocities. It has provided the blue print for thousands of wars. You could start by reading the book of Ezekiel and ask yourself if someone behaved like that today (IE God) he would be considered the most evil despot the world had ever known !!
My favorite thing in recent years has to be people from [ahem] a certain side of the political aisle touting themselves as the furthest thing from racist or antisemitic, but then throwing out totally not-antisemitic buzzwords like "Cultural Marxism". "No it's NOT Cultural Bolshevism don't you dare say it's Cultural Bolshevism, Cultural Marxism is a COMPLETELY different thing. Anyway, while I have you, I've got some theories about the California wildfires..."
@@emperorstevee Why should I? I already laid out exactly what the connection is in my original comment. _Your_ inability to click the "read more" button isn't my problem, especially when it's crystal clear you're not even interested in learning, you're just here to be a troll. And a lazy one at that.
@@death4metal201 Yes and it was discussed in many of my college courses by self-proclaimed “Marxist” professors. Communism killed many more people than National Socialism.
20million now? When I was a kid it was 11million and 6 million were Jewish…why do the facts around this never stay the same? Why do we ignore China and how they treat the Uyghurs? Why do we ignore what the U.S. does to the poor? And why do we ignore what Israel has done to Palestine?
@@applejuice9468 they’re ignored and still happening…actions speak louder than words, and the human actions around the aforementioned issues is complacency and ignorance of them…
Not everyone should read the book, some people might like it and it might enable their radicalisation. But I think a lot of people could and should read the book to better understand how it radicalised so many. But when doing so should also try to research and understand the other events coinciding with it's publication. It's not like this one book turned normal peaceful people into terrible monsters. Their was a lot more going on that all just combined in a melting pot at the right time and place and just breathed the idea across a land of pissed off, hard working and down trodden people.
People who like rambling idiots, definitely shouldn't read it. There are some similarities with current living politicians, that are a bit too close for comfort.
