Mein Kampf discussion

night was the hardest ting i ever read. It was great, but daunting. I squirmed and cried and walked away but I had to keep reading. I read it in 3 hours. I won't ever read it again. If it was tough for me to read imagine what it was like to live it. It brings me to knees for the people of the world suffering.

Which version was this? I found out this year that the earliest verions of this books, the most explicit sectoins of it were heavily edited in the late 1930s.
I found an old book by Fritz Thyssen in a used book store where he tries to explain away all he did to support Hitler in his earliest days, long before he took power. Thyseen was a Nazi party member and old time German industrialist who realized the jig was up and wrote his memoirs to sooth his concience. Its called "I Paid Hitler".

I don't remember which version of it I read, but what stays in my mind is just the pure rage and malice of it.

What amazed and scared me more is that he not only wrote tehse things but spoke them out loud for years and no one thought much of it. Pierre van Passan was one of many overseas journalists who covered the Nazi party in the late 20s and early 30s and the Nazi party leders didn't pull any punches in their interviews. Said all this crazy awful stuff, meant every word, and no one blinked an eye.

One US journalist actually declared on a newsreel after visiting Nazi germany, he had become an admierer of Hitler (It's in the first or second episode of the BBC documentary "The World at War")

I was unable to finish this one! I tried again and again but it kind of made me sick. I just failed to agree to his ideals. Found it too radical and difficult.

I think this book should be mandatory reading for everyone. We all should be aware how important it is to not let this kind of ideas creep back into our societies.

Giansar wrote: "I think this book should be mandatory reading for everyone. We all should be aware how important it is to not let this kind of ideas creep back into our societies."

While I agree, these ideas are always with us. Not just anti-Jew. Think of how Reagan spoke about the hippies when he was governor. The Black jokes in America. Fox News and the current anti-Islam banter. Dehumanizing the enemy will always occur, we just don't need to stoop to that level as individuals.

It is also important to remember how the US did the same things in the name of science. IQ test to prove Blacks are inferior, brain pan sizes. Even Margaret Meade was in on discussion panels to determine if science could prove differences between groups of people. Jean-Jacques Rousseau meets Darwin meets Nietzsche.

Giansar wrote: "I think this book should be mandatory reading for everyone. We all should be aware how important it is to not let this kind of ideas creep back into our societies."
In fact, in the 'India-version' that I got it was clearly given in the preface that you might skip reading a Gandhi but you must read Hitler and learn what to avoid.