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Summary: People read too much into this.
Review: According to the Preface, this book was not written for the purpose to make friends or influence people. The design from conception is to chronicle a movement, not create one. As a whole one can have an opinion as to the results of the book. However with out reading it the opinion has no chance to be informed. Another flaw with not reading this work is that you are relying on others opinions and inferences. Taking most of the statements and conclusions from this book and displaying them separately you would be surprised as to how many you would agree with. Just a sample of what is on the inside:
"I know people who 'read' enormously, Book for book, letter for letter, yet whom I would not describe as 'well-read.' True they possess a mass of 'knowledge,' but their brain is unable to organize and register the material they have taken in... For reading is no end in itself, but a means to an end."
These are not platitudes but examples of observations of the time, which you can see are timeless.
Once in a while the reading may seem redundant but it is the nature of writing for the time and place. So again this book is a must read. I have no preference as to translation.
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Summary: Interesting book,
Review: Adolf Hitler was probably one of the most successful leaders in History, and I'm talking about before the war. Before the war, he managed to bring back an economically desolate Germany and instill a sense of nationalism in ALL GERMANS (yes, even jewish germans). In fact, he completed such a huge feat that he was Time Magazine's Man of the Year for 1938. But this book shows what we all came to realize later. Though he was a genius politician and an excellent leader, Hitler had his issues. Emotional issues and mental issues warped him brutally. Read this book to understand the war. And I think Hitler is evil. I'm not defending him in the above paragraph. But you have to realize that he was a wonderful leader for a period of time. Then he crossed that line and spiralled into madness. This book will help you understand that madness.
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Summary: A Little Knowledge...
Review: As literature this book isn't worth the paper upon which it is printed. As an historical document it is a valuable primary source, allowing a unique insight into the mind of a modern tyrant. Sadly, even there, there is little new or original within. Hitler's political philosophies were little more than a rough combination of half-understood pamphlets and what he was able to pick up on the streets or in the boarding-house. Unfortunately, most of what Americans believe about Hitler was picked up in the same manner. To quote from two previous posts: "Did you know he was seriously molested by his parents as a child? Did you know he had orgasms while holding his ramblings on the stage? Or that he had sexual intercourse with his niece wich involved excrements? Did you know he wanted to become a painter but was turned down by his Jewish teacher? Did you know that HIS GRANDMOTHER WAS JEWISH!? Did you know he was addicted to amfetamins? Did you know he thaught he possesed the mystic abilities of the spear by wich Christ was pierced through? " There is no evidence of most of this. While Hitler's father could be strict, there is no evidence of his being "seriously molested." Orgasmic speeches and excrement-including sex? Allied propaganda. Hitler was turned down by a panel of professors, not a single teacher. None of the women in Hitler's family line was Jewish. Hitler was fed many meds by his "doctors", yes, but I have no idea where the bit about the spear of Christ came from. Another reviewer speaks of "Hitler's eloquent use of vocabulary and great analogies." As Joachim Fest points out in his excellent biography, Hitler was discussing his period of poverty when he wrote "He who has not himself been gripped in the clutches of this strangulating viper will never know its poisoned fangs." Fest quotes Rudolf Olden commenting on that metaphor as saying "That one sentence contains more mistakes than one could correct in an entire essay. A viper has no clutches, and a snake which can coil itself around a human being has no poison fangs. Moreover, if a person is strangled by a snake, he never comes to know his fangs." (Fest, 213) This is what fills "Mein Kampf." To those reviewers, and to anyone else seeking to learn about Hitler, his motivations and philosophies, I strongly recommed the afore-mentioned bio by Fest or the superb two-volume work by Sir Ian Kershaw over "Mein Kampf." Little satisfies more than well-written history, and Hitler's book fails on both counts.
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Summary: Meanderings of a Madman
Review: Aside from the racist, xenophobic rhetoric, "Mein Kampf" is a difficult book to read. I didn't enjoy reading it and I was only too glad to get rid of it. Hitler didn't write this book, rather, he dictated it to fellow Landsberg prison inmate Rudolf Hess. Consequently, "Mein Kampf" comes across as a heavy, meandering, disjointed piece of work that lacks intellectual integrity. It also reeks of narcissism and megalomania and, as such, much of what Hitler said should be taken with a grain of salt. Historians will undoubtedly find it useful for studying the mindset of Hitler and how he used his rhetoric to seduce the German people and lead them to war and self-destruction. Other than that, there's not much to recommend this book and as far as I'm concerned, it should be thrown on the garbage heap of history.
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Summary: ramblings that arouse poor wiw' outis
Review: forgive the below reviewer, our resident retard outis. he's a neo nazi livejournalwarrior with too much time on his hands who, like his idol adolf hitler, has some repressed homosexual tendencies and an unhealthy fascination with young men like myself.
there really is no debate about this anymore. it's badly written, and some of the sentences in it are so hilariously erroneous (even in translation) in terms of grammar, style, what have you that one could get through college by inventing a new major entitled "The Grammatical Errors in Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf". as Erich Fromm said in his famous "An Anatomy of Human Destructiveness": "Hitler was no genius. He pretended to have a vast knowledge of many subjects but possessed real comprehension of none".
we should not be surprised that an idiosyncratic failure such as hitler should attract defects such as outis (and what an appropriate name: dumpy and pitiable). hitler praises courage, but outis is too punk to even approach (in real life, mind you) those he attacks so vociferously online with the melting monocle.
a bad book, and an even worse reviewer. look for outis on ABC's upcoming: "How I Fell Through the Cracks:The Socially Disenfranchised in the 21st Century".
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Summary: error in title...
Review: hey, folks.
this book is banned in many many countries, because of its content (so it is here, in germany) and i think this is the right way. the author of this book is the worst guy of the 20th century and is responsible for the death of millions of ppl and the destruction of europe.
anyway, for some ppl it may be interesting nevertheless.
for those i got a hint: the german title on the cover is misspelled. it says here "mein kamfp". right: "mein kampf".
it may be a hint for the quality of translation the book has inside.
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Summary: In A Literary Sense It's Junk
Review: Hitler, although extremely evil, was possibly one of the best orators of all time. He could move crowds like no one else with his powerful speeches and yet virtually nothing he said is still quoted today. Why? Because it was not what Hitler said, but rather how he said it. Do not buy Mein Kampf if you want an entertaining, well written read; rather buy this book for its historical significance. Were this book written by some other unknown man the ramblings about racial purity and Jews as parasitic sub humans would enthrall very few and put most to sleep. However for those interested in how Hitler's mind worked there can be no better direct example than his book, but in literary quality two stars is very generous.
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Summary: my school project
Review: i started this book without any pretense of what made adolf hitler do what he did. reading through this book has given insight onto the reasons behind the actions of this man, a man with very askew ideas of Morality and Nationalism. the thing about htis book is the way that is written. its not simple english by any means, nor are the sentences short, as sometimes they are paragraphs in themsleves. it is also dis-jointed when Hitler is trying to explain something, as hhe goes of to explain the problem in geat detail for pages at a time. most of the book itself is about the political situation of germany and austria before and after World War 1 there is very little about the man himself, for reasons i cannot figure out. i didnt like this book to much, even though i could understand what Hitler was saying, i didnt agree with any of it. plus it was overly long and slightly boring. this book isnt for everyone, well pretty much no one really. it was a over-looked pre cursor to the holocaust, and of WWW2.
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Summary: .
Review: I would go for the Mannheim translation over this, the authorized translation. Mannheim was a Jew, and his MK is prefaced by some drivel by Abraham Foxman, but he simply does a more faithful job translating. Murphy rounds edges, makes it too English. You don't get Hitler's voice through it.
I give 4 stars though, because it is Mein Kampf, after all.
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Summary: Read it- And You'll Never Feel Clean Again
Review: If you read Mein Kampf, you'll wonder how anyone could have followed someone who was obviously insane. The content of Hitler's ideas would be laughable, if not for the fact that people did take this stuff seriously. His ramblings are full of raw, angry, verbose garbage that force a rational person to cringe. At one time there were people who thought that his ideas were great. And there are the few who still do, a fact which is frightening to anyone capable of logical thinking. Mein Kampf is a journey into a deluded, twisted mind, a journey that isn't exacly enjoyable. It is, however, necessary to understand the depths to which humans can sink.
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