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What Hitler Wants
URGENT!!!
PENGUIN SPECIAL!!!
This book was published as a Penguin Special.
Such Specials were defined by Penguin as
"books which do not fit into the usual classsified categories, being mostly new books specially written for the series ON URGENT TOPICAL PROBLEMS OF THE DAY.(my capitals) These books are rushed through as soon as possible after delivery of the manuscript to us."
(The following synopsis is printed on the dustcover's flap.)
This book gives,for the first time, a detailed criticism, by a German scholar of repute, of the GERMAN EDITION of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and of Rosenberg's "Mythus of the 20th Century".
"Mein Kampf", as everybody knows, is expected to be in every German home and on the desk of every German official. An English edition is available, but it is generally known that this differs considerably from the Gerrman. Attempts in England and France to publish a complete translation of the German edition have been rigorously prevented.
Why is Hitler so anxious to prevent the full text of his book from being circulated outside Germany?
Simply because he does not want his intended victims to know the full extent of his plans for German world-domination - plans which have so far been faithfully carried out one by one in accordance with those set forth in "Mein Kampf".
E.O.Lorimer,the author of "What Hitler Wants", already has several of her books and translations on Goodreads.
Leon Trotsky wrote a book with an identical title.
(from the back flap of the dust cover):
E.O.Lorimer is the daughter of His Honour Judge T.G.Overend and wife of of Lt.-Col.D.L.R.Lorimer, an authority on oriental languages. She graduated from Oxford with First Class Honours in languages and tutored in Germanic Philology at Oxford.After her marriage she lived and travelled with her husband in Persia, Mesopotamia and Baluchistan,and has acted for 28 years as his private secretary in his language researches.She was joint author with him of "Persian Tales".
During the war ie.WWI E.O.Lorimer had a varied and distinguished career, received the O.B.E. and was mentioned in dispatches.Later she took up journalism both as a freelance and afterwards as TIMES correspondent in Kashmir.She has written for nearly all the leading periodicals and is the author of "Language Hunting in the Karakoram", the material for which she obtained while on an anthropological expedition with her husband.
PENGUIN SPECIAL!!!
This book was published as a Penguin Special.
Such Specials were defined by Penguin as
"books which do not fit into the usual classsified categories, being mostly new books specially written for the series ON URGENT TOPICAL PROBLEMS OF THE DAY.(my capitals) These books are rushed through as soon as possible after delivery of the manuscript to us."
(The following synopsis is printed on the dustcover's flap.)
This book gives,for the first time, a detailed criticism, by a German scholar of repute, of the GERMAN EDITION of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and of Rosenberg's "Mythus of the 20th Century".
"Mein Kampf", as everybody knows, is expected to be in every German home and on the desk of every German official. An English edition is available, but it is generally known that this differs considerably from the Gerrman. Attempts in England and France to publish a complete translation of the German edition have been rigorously prevented.
Why is Hitler so anxious to prevent the full text of his book from being circulated outside Germany?
Simply because he does not want his intended victims to know the full extent of his plans for German world-domination - plans which have so far been faithfully carried out one by one in accordance with those set forth in "Mein Kampf".
E.O.Lorimer,the author of "What Hitler Wants", already has several of her books and translations on Goodreads.
Leon Trotsky wrote a book with an identical title.
(from the back flap of the dust cover):
E.O.Lorimer is the daughter of His Honour Judge T.G.Overend and wife of of Lt.-Col.D.L.R.Lorimer, an authority on oriental languages. She graduated from Oxford with First Class Honours in languages and tutored in Germanic Philology at Oxford.After her marriage she lived and travelled with her husband in Persia, Mesopotamia and Baluchistan,and has acted for 28 years as his private secretary in his language researches.She was joint author with him of "Persian Tales".
During the war ie.WWI E.O.Lorimer had a varied and distinguished career, received the O.B.E. and was mentioned in dispatches.Later she took up journalism both as a freelance and afterwards as TIMES correspondent in Kashmir.She has written for nearly all the leading periodicals and is the author of "Language Hunting in the Karakoram", the material for which she obtained while on an anthropological expedition with her husband.
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188 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1939
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October 18, 2011PRE-READING:
Where had this book been for 60 years?
First published in January in 1939 in England, this edition, the first reprint in that same January,shows it was very popular indeed.
I was working on a secondhand bookstall in Sydney in 1999 at a fete to raise money for the Richmond Fellowship, a society which funds housing for schizophrenics and provides guidance and assistance in their daily lives.
I spied this book in pristine condition at a costing of a mere 50cents.
Original price - sixpence or 6d.
Where had it been?
Cherished, obviously.
I had to create this book although all her other books are actually on Goodreads. Trotsky's book of the same title is on Goodreads.
I'm dying to share the contents with you.
Where had this book been for 60 years?
First published in January in 1939 in England, this edition, the first reprint in that same January,shows it was very popular indeed.
I was working on a secondhand bookstall in Sydney in 1999 at a fete to raise money for the Richmond Fellowship, a society which funds housing for schizophrenics and provides guidance and assistance in their daily lives.
I spied this book in pristine condition at a costing of a mere 50cents.
Original price - sixpence or 6d.
Where had it been?
Cherished, obviously.
I had to create this book although all her other books are actually on Goodreads. Trotsky's book of the same title is on Goodreads.
I'm dying to share the contents with you.
April 12, 2026
Analysis of Mein Kampf and Hitler's Germany is not especially illuminating, but Lorimer's historical perspective here is what really fascinates me. A bourgeois Anglo-Irish liberal Germanophile who is obsessed with Nazi-Prussianism, the evils of prostitution, British schoolchildren not going outside enough, and a splash of eugenicism.
Flawed as some of her logic can be (e.g. Hitler as one of the "Great Men of History", as much as she clearly despises him) it does raise topical questions about to what extent one can attribute the actions of nation's leader with the will of its people.
Flawed as some of her logic can be (e.g. Hitler as one of the "Great Men of History", as much as she clearly despises him) it does raise topical questions about to what extent one can attribute the actions of nation's leader with the will of its people.
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