[Petronski]

I even read Mein Kampf twice - once in the original German, in which it’s really a PITA.

You read Mein Kampf in the original German?

Honor is due. That is quite a feat.

[Spktyr]

After reading it, I can understand why the Germans were surprised at what Hitler did; nobody would read that thing for pleasure or for information about a candidate unless you had an overpowering external motive, which Germans didn’t have in 1932.

It’s pretty much all but unreadable. Almost anyone reading it casually would give up long, long before getting to Volume 1, Chapter 10. Let alone Chapter 11, “Nation and Race.” IMHO, most people would bail out by the middle of chapter 1, with the remainder quitting about a third of the way into chapter 2.