[Demosthenes]

I would not let my kids read it.

Those of you who are flaming this guy:

If your young children (say, aged 10-14) wanted to read Mein Kampf, or literature given to them by The Young Socialists' party, would you let them?

Just curious.

Turn your kids on to Susie Hinton and JD Fitzgerald...

[Arkinsaw]

If your young children (say, aged 10-14) wanted to read Mein Kampf, or literature given to them by The Young Socialists' party, would you let them?

I'd prefer they watch those films of the Waffen SS burning books they didn't like.

[null and void]

I read Mein Kampf and the Communist Manefesto at age 13. It gave me all the armor I needed to counter those lunitics. There is no substitute for knowing your enemies...

[alpowolf]

I read Mein Kampf when I was 12. Egads, that was the most boring book I ever read. The only harm it did me was the bump I got on my head when I fell asleep reading it.

[CatoRenasci]

If your young children (say, aged 10-14) wanted to read Mein Kampf, or literature given to them by The Young Socialists' party, would you let them?

Sure, why not? I was 12 or 13 when I first read Mein Kampf and didn't run off to join George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party. And I read The Communist Manifesto and the first volume of Das Kapital (no one reads the rest of it) in high school. I didn't run out and become a Trotskyite, either. Now, when I read Margaret Murray's The God of the Witches and The Witch Cult in Western Europe, and Gerald Gardner's High Magic's Aid and Witchcraft Today...... I didn't run out and become a Wicced Witch! Oh well,.....

[gdani]

If your young children (say, aged 10-14) wanted to read Mein Kampf, or literature given to them by The Young Socialists' party, would you let them?

Yes. Why not? It's a book. It's full of ideas. That does not mean that anything horrible will happen. I read Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto in high school as I'm sure many others did. Yet *somehow* we all managed to survive.

You obviously do not give kids or parents enough credit.

[Tony in Hawaii]

My high school had a copy of Mein Kampf. I tried to read it, but it was just unreadable. Maybe it was a poor translation, but it was just incoherent.

[discostu]

I read Mein Kampf when I was 13. I was, and still am, very interested in history, especially WWII and wanted a glimpse into the mind that started it all. Fascinating book. After you've read it the missteps Hitler took that thankfully garaunteed our eventual victory can be understood; it's clear WHY he did those things, frankly our guys should have read it while preparing for the war, they could have constructed the war plan to invite more foolish mistakes and won it that much quicker.

[don-o]

If your young children (say, aged 10-14) wanted to read Mein Kampf, or literature given to them by The Young Socialists' party, would you let them?

That's easy. Absolutely, YES.

Because as they are reading, they would be asking questions and answering mine.

We homeschoolers actually KNOW our kids.

Sadly, this thread exposes that fact that to most adults, children are an alien species.