Posted on 03/24/2005 12:54:58 PM PST by Borges
I read it when I was in high school. Just because you read a book doesn't mean you agree with it.
She also bought a book about Che Guevara.
Well they are blood brothers and ideologically similar.
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I actually checked it out of the public library. But I understand if someone buys it. Say what you will, it is an influential book in 20th Century history. If I was teaching a college class on what led up to WWII, I would make sections of it required reading.
It was apparently pretty much ignored until after Hitler came to power. The book itself had no real influence until after the war was unavoidable.
This is true. Perhaps I need to clarify. I would make it required reading because it gives insight into the mind of Hitler.
An uncle brought one back from duty during WWII, I still have it, but I can't read the german script. Is it worth anything?
'Mein Kampf' a Best Seller in Turkey and Canada?
I tried to read it in college, but it was so poorly written that I couldn't get past about the first 15 or so pages. Maybe it just loses something in the translation from German to English, but seeing it back on bestseller lists, and rising anti-Semitism in a supposedly moderate Muslim nation is troubling.
Something else to ponder.
And you can read it on the web for free.
Quite a few people have a copy of it in Canada...My mother has a very old copy of it , along with a 200 year old engineering book on steam engines...She has lots of old books.
Here's a synopsis:
http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=2456
Sounds trite.
Sounds insane.
Does it have a picture of Hitler on the cover or is it a plain cover?
You think Che and Hitler were ideologically similiar?
Che was a died in the wool revolutionary Marxist-Leninist.Hitler was an avowed anti-Bolshevik whose suppressed Marxists within Germany and unleashed Hell on Soviet Russia.
Now it can be argued truthfully that both Guevara and Hitler were totalitarian ideologues who tolerated no dissent and were true believers in their particluar political pathologies.In that respect they were quite a bit alike.
Both were socialists. One a national socialist and one an international socialist. Its the totalitarian and brutal traits that I think they have in common as well.
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