Mein KampfEver since the early 1930s, the history of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in English has been complicated and has been the occasion for controversy.
My StruggleAdolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was part autobiography and part political treatise. Mein Kampf (which means "My Struggle") promoted the key components of Nazism: rabid antisemitism, a racist world view, and an aggressive foreign policy geared to gaining Lebensraum (living space) in eastern Europe.
Gottleib predicted that this rare copy could exceed $100,000. But when the hammer fell in November 2014, the book sold for $28,400 with no buyer's premium. Signed copies of Mein Kampf with authenticated autographs have sold for $65,000–70,000 in the past, but those were not personally owned by Hitler like this one was.
On 30 January 1939, Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler gave a speech in the Reichstag, which is best known for the prediction he made that "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe" would ensue if another world war were to occur.
The reputed might of Mein Kampf, or “My Struggle,” is so strong that the book was banned for 70 years in Germany. But last year, a copyright expiration brought Hitler's manifesto back to German bookshelves—and, as Melissa Eddy reports for The New York Times, the book is now a bestseller.
It treats the world of Hitler's youth, the First World War, and the “betrayal” of Germany's collapse in 1918; it also expresses Hitler's racist ideology, identifying the Aryan as the “genius” race and the Jew as the “parasite,” and declares the need for Germans to seek living space (Lebensraum) in the East at the ...
An autographed two-volume set of Adolf Hitler's Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf has sold at auction in Los Angeles for $64,850 (£38,700). The books date from 1925 and 1926 and were purchased by an anonymous US buyer, auctioneer Nate Sanders said.
While Hitler was in power (1933–1945), Mein Kampf came to be available in three common editions.
Story highlights. In January 2016, the Institute of Contemporary History released the first reprint of Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” since World War II. One year on, the German publisher says the book has sold some 85,000 copies and spent 35 weeks on Der Spiegel non-fiction best-seller list.
“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” “To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.” “Words build bridges into unexplored regions.” “The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.
The Generalplan Ost (German pronunciation: [ɡenəˈʁaːlˌplaːn ˈɔst]; English: Master Plan for the East), abbreviated GPO, was the Nazi German government's plan for the genocide and ethnic cleansing on a vast scale, and colonization of Central and Eastern Europe by Germans.
Read a brief summary of this topic. Adolf Hitler, byname Der Führer (German: “The Leader”), (born April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria—died April 30, 1945, Berlin, Germany), leader of the Nazi Party (from 1920/21) and chancellor (Kanzler) and Führer of Germany (1933–45).