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Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: People who hate Hitler should really read this book.
Review: I first read this book when I was thirteen, and I have to say even at that age I thought it a brilliant work. As far as I have experienced, dictated books don't work to well, and although this sounds more like a long speech it actually works well as a book too. Even behind the philosophy there is something which is interesting if people took the time to think about it. It is a complicated mixture of autobiograhical study and theological rhetorics but if Hitler had not been so despised by the world, he would have been the next Nietzche.
Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Beyond the Hatred (of Hitler by all reviewers)
Review: I would have to say this is one of the best books I have ever read. It uses interspersed ideals to explain a complicated but heartfelt belief. It is actually a really sad book, when you read between the lines. What could be sadder than the anguish of a tortured mind in a world of people with no understanding?
(And by the way - the reason that the text seems so rambling is that Hitler dictated it to Rudolph Hess so it really would work better as a speech.)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A good book to try to understand Hitler
Review: this is an interesting book, very intruiging. How could man of his stature, possibly create so much suffering and annihilation of other races. Hitler is not somthing to look up to, hes a digusting, demented, twisted person. but to think that someone could have so much power that he tried to riegn over the whole world........is baffling. im not quite done with this book, but its good. i must say, its rather disgusting though how many people look up to this guy. but its a good read if u want to try to understand him and his motives.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A BIG WASTE OF TIME
Review: Mein Kampf
By Adolph Hitler

Mein Kampf is one of the most bizarre books I have ever read. The tittle, when translated into English means My Struggle. Personally, my struggle was just getting through the first half of the book! I only hope that this look lost some of its meaning when it was translated from German. That would be a pretty good excuse for a book that was very confusing. Hitler uses analogies to explain everything. I wish he would have just come out and say what was on his mind. This would have saved me a lot of time. I have to admit, once you read through this book, it does start to make more sense. What he says explains why he hated the Jews so much. I just think that a 700 hundred-page book on Hitler's political views is a little too much. But, if you like long books about European politics, this is the book for you, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Journey Into The Mind Behind The Man
Review: This book is an excellent journey into the mind of Adolf Hitler. The author, Adolf Hitler, writes his struggle in shocking detail. Every reader in America should read this book to understand the mind of one of the most influencial leaders of all time. Regardless, of personal feelings about the man, he still was the one dictator to single-handedly transformed a country in shambles, to a counrty taking over the world. No politician has ever done what Hitler did. Adolf Hitler vividly depicts his life the way he saw it, not the way we all interpret it. If one reads this book one can fully understand the causes of World War II and understand fully where the Germans came from. Many readers will think differently after reading this book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: required reading to understand hatred
Review: Mein Kampf should be required reading for every American citizen. Here, clearly written in these pages, are the seeds of hatred that destroyed not only its author but his entire country.There need never be a better object lesson about the virus of hatred and the inevitable results it brings to anyone and any society that allows it to take root.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It's rubbish. You ought to have a look at it
Review: Mein Kampf is a conundrum of a book. Hitler wrote it whilst serving an absurdly truncated prison sentence for attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government of Bavaria. Even with the editorial advice of better-educated friends and sympathisers, it's still a turgid, rambling, humourless (!), frequently mendacious read. Hitler frequently lies about his own life and career (for example, he casually omits to mention that he used to be an Army propagandist for the Social Democrat government, before he ever got interested in the fledgling German Workers Party that would evolve into the Nazi Party). He churns out a lot of stamped-in-tin rhetoric about the evils of democracy, and there's some sub-pornographic BS about curly-haired Jews raping Aryan maidens.

Nevertheless, a lot of very committed and dangerous people think that this book is a masterpiece. This is perhaps because they are too lacking in any sense of justice and human decency to see that the man who wrote this book went on to cause an unimaginably destructive and needless war, destroying the country he claimed to love in the process.

This needs to be said: Hitler was not some supernatural genius. He was a beerhall orator, with unusual gifts of persuasion and a raw tactical skill, who rose to prominence because power interests around him had no faith in anything better coming along. Ian Kershaw's excellent biography makes this clearer than anything I could say. It's worth pointing out that Hitler himself, once he had gained the Chancellery, admitted that if he'd known he was ever going to get that far, he'd never have written this book. It exposes him for the small-minded, unimaginative, hate-ridden racist he was, and he knew as much himself.

It's a bloody awful read, but it remains the best guide there is to the cramped and stuffy little world that is the imagination of the Nazi. Or, for that matter, Neo-Nazi.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: My Struggle With Mein Kamph
Review: I did not find Hitler very appealing. I unemotionally analyzed the book since I was not alive during the war and Hitler is just a historical figure to me.

The book is mildly interesting throughout more because of the notoriety of the man who wrote it than the book itself. It is a good look at the mind of Hitler and what his motivations were. The book goes on for way too long with several detours and returns and deadends. He needed at good editor to chop the book in half. He had some interesting insights but his way about solving societal problems was always extreme and fanatical.

I noted in Hitler mostly his obsession with the will, his fanaticism, his militarism, and his ruthlessness. I consider him to be more of a soldier than an artist in his outlook on life. He does not back up his claims with evidence too much. There are better far right thinkers and writers than Hitler. Some his claims against the Jews have modern parallels such as claims of Jewish pre-dominance in government, media, finance, and vice. He also explains the historical cycle of alleged Jewish subversion of a host country and the gentile reaction against it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Mein Langweile, My Boredom...
Review: Either Hitler is an incredibly poor writer or this book is poor translated. Perhaps, both play a role in making this book so boring. In any case, this book illustrates why Nazism is said to personify irrationalism. Occasionally, Hitler's ravings pick up the pace and garner your attention at times, but this book is incredibly dry, boring and irrationale. I couldn't helped, but to skip along... I think this should be read for its historical value.

Whereas, Karl Marx believed "class struggle" was the dialetic driving history forward, Hitler believed that "racial struggle" was the Hegelian motor the pushed history forward. Hitler believed in a crude Darwinism that reduced everything to a perpetual racial struggle between the Nordic-German Race and the 'inferior races.' Ultimately, as Hitler saw it, history would only end in a nihilistic death or victory for the master race.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Uphill work
Review: Whether just badly written or badly translated, Mein Kampf is a tough read in English. The most interesting parts are the action plans Hitler had in mind for the National Socialists. His insights into the vapidness of the media and the political timidity of the average citizen are quite acute. But this is far outweighed by the unsupported theorizing on race and history and by the Jew-baiting. This was a man in a hurry, who couldn't spare the time to research or re-write this very rough draft, although in the end it did him ample service as it was.


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