For those who have read "Mein Kampf" - what did you think of it after you finished reading it?

Question

Do you agree with what was witten there or not?

Dawn USA - I am 76 and have always wanted to read it and finally decided to do so before I went on to better and other things.

I held out no fantasies as to what it would be like so I am enjoying every bit of it since - despite him being an evil man (much less than Bush) - I still had a lot of respect for him - which I do not have for Bush!.

Read it again and you would probably really appreciate it greater now than before. :)

Answer 1

I read it a LONG time ago, and all I can really remember are my reactions to it. I felt that his ideas were simplistic and uneducated, with a healthy helping of malice mixed in.

I don't think anybody can be wrong 100% of the time, and undoubtedly there were a few truthful things mixed in among his other rantings, but I read it mostly (this was in the 60s) to see if any of it applied to what US leaders had in mind. I suspect if I re-read it I would find a lot more parallels between Hitler's plan and what's going on now compared to what was going on in the 60s.

Answer 2

I wondered how a human being could spew such hatred and how a supposedly intelligent population could fall for his tripe, even though they were downtrodden from the ravages of inflation and the humiliation of WWI reparations. Wouk and others think it is the result of the writings of Fichte and Nietzsche, but I think that people just didn't have enough to eat and were tired of the guilt forced on them via the treaty of Versailles. (Similarly, the Russians didn't read Marx or Engels, they were just dirt poor and listened to the lies of Lenin.)

Not all the "International Jews" that Hitler railed against were actually Jewish. Many of the bankers and industrialists were Christian. And the victims of their policies included Jews and Christians alike, as well as people of any religion or ethnic origin.

I dislike Bush and his policies, too. I think they will have long-lasting adverse effects on our country. But I would NEVER put him in the same category as Hitler.

Answer 3

You know I read it about 20 years ago and remember only thinking that I couldn't believe such an evil man could be so intelligent and that he had some good views there. My copy is packed away somewhere and always wanted to reread it, so now I may just do that. What did you think?

Answer 4

I came away with the impression that Hitler was an egomaniac who was completely paranoid of persecution. Paranoid Megalomaniac.