Written in prison by Adolf Hitler between 1924 and 1925, MEIN Kampf (My fight) is both:

• an autobiographical work;
• a manifesto and a political program;
• a sociological study;
• and a philosophical essay.

Hitler pays his years of detention at the prison LANDSBERG to dictate the first draft to Rudolf Hess, his cellmate and secretary, a partner since the very beginning of the adventure of the DAP (German Workers’ Party) which later became the Nazi Party .

Comment from the author of this book report
A reading MEIN Kampf (published in 1925), we can only be amazed at how the dramatic events that would darken the 30s could already read in filigree first volume of the book (there will be two). Hitler announced that he was going to do and how he would do it. It is clear that he did what he had written:

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  conquest of the masses by simple and powerful messages;

• denunciation of an enemy of the people;
• revival of national sentiment;
• seizure of power through the ballot box, suppression of democracy parliamentarism;
• indoctrination;
• establishment of a single leader;
• expansion to the east;
• cult of purebred …
• and finally, trigger a world war.

Maybe we would have taken it seriously?

Summary of Mein Kampf in French

At the beginning

Hitler even wrote him a preface in which he describes his humble origins in Austria, his admiration for his mother (Maria Anna), his aversion to his father (Alois) who wanted to make a customs official, his attraction to the art in general, painting and architecture in particular. He then recalls his painful early years in Vienna (1910), after the death of his father (1903), where he survives by selling some watercolors and performing odd jobs on construction sites. For Hitler, and rub the little people the opportunity to form a first political consciousness.

Birth of a political conscience
First, it notes with dismay the dissolution of the Germanic spirit in the cosmopolitan set desired by the ruling family in Austria: Habsburg, these « traitors » who pride to communities diverse as the Slavic or Czech … This morbid hatred of the gravediggers of German culture, makes him, at first, friendly socialist SPD that, too, sworn to destroy the monarchy! It will not last … Indeed, he quickly realizes that the SPD, meanwhile, is still over the demise of the Teutonic soul by mixing in a gangue informs: the International! He then pours the miserable fate of the little people, abandoned by the bourgeois class. « If now I attempted to paint a few strokes the soul of its lower classes, my picture would be unfaithful if I do not affirmed that, in the depths, I could not even find the light. « He criticizes the bourgeois concede nothing to the workers, pushing them into the arms of the Reds.

HITLER also rubs, or rather skinned, contact unionism.

Feeling better educated than unionists themselves on their own communist doctrine, he argued, pleaded, irritated … It is evacuated sites. He accuses the unions of being a political instrument (the Reds) instead of actually fighting for social rights. This is equal to the time he met with his old enemy: the Jew! Because Hitler does not seem to be born anti-Semite as it recognizes not have, at first, noticed especially the Jews yet implanted in Vienna (200 000 individuals), considering them as Austrians have a different faith. It will not last … It combines fast in his brain the Machiavellian SPD and Jews in formal association to end the German culture and establish their domination over the world … The world press is placed in the same bag of garbage. Infested with Jews, it prepares the public to see. « Infamy is to pour 100 trash both the lowest and most shameful slanders on the immaculate dress of a man of honor … ».

The Austrian Catholic Church has not been spared by the hunting picture of Hitler: this time, it is the Czech priests who are accused of the bed of the Germanization. Considering the lost Austria, he turns his eyes to Germany of William II.

Summary of Mein Kampf in French

Anti-parliamentarism
here is found in Mein Kampf, the first political considerations that are limited to a virulent criticism of parliamentarism (and democracy). A pearl among others: « When the parliamentary principle of the authority of the majority prevails over that of the authority of a single leader and replaces the number and mass, goes against the aristocratic principle of nature, which also relies design of the nobility. « The idea is recurrent and can be summarized as: parliamentarism destroys the notion of responsibility: each (often poor) behind a majority (parliamentary) to decide and nobody is responsible for anything.

But nature is quite different: a leader who decides is essential to the smooth running of the world (Nietzsche did not say anything else in the last century). Another quote to illustrate this point: « appalling failure and weakness of the political leadership of the Empire (German) inside and outside that, due to the action of the Reichstag (
parliament) became one of the causes of the collapse of the empire. « And one last
 » if the tombs of the Flanders plain could be opened, would come out, erect, the bloody accusers, 100 000 young people who, through lack of awareness of these criminals (MPs) were pushed badly educated, badly trained, in the arms of death.  »

Education
To prevent the mass is too sensitive to red propaganda, Hitler emphasizes the importance of education (later as everyone knows indoctrination).

Summary of Mein Kampf in French

How do politics?

It is also at this time that he met his first mentor, Dr. Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna, true synthesis of still embryonic political ideas in the mind of Hitler.

Lueger shows him the rudiments of politics which consist, in short, to rely on the masses (because the bourgeoisie is too passive and anxious to preserve its achievements), repeat ad nauseam simple formulas (understandable by all) and punchy , appeal to people of concepts, nation and finally race and designate a single enemy on which to rain insanities (ie the Jew). « Thus, the essential condition for the formation and maintenance of the state, is that there is a feeling of solidarity on the basis of an identity of character and race and we resolved to defend all means « . In summary, the strategy is to address, first of all, to the masses, to appeal to the feelings (the struggle for existence excludes any aesthetic consideration) and not to reason, to be limited to a few highlights , few, stereotypical formulas for the last of the auditors is able to grasp the idea, and focus fire on a single opponent.

The right to Lebensraum
He noted that the German dynamism produces 900 000 additional cores per year, posing in the short term, the inevitable problem of famine. Of course, it refuses to limit births, but rather proposes to extend the territories (including the expense on Russia).

Social Darwinism: the notion of race
HITLER inspired Darwin to describe the workings of nature: nature is heavily at the height and left to die sickly and sickly: it is the essential condition for cash advances in general and of the human species in particular. If this condition is trampled upon, the human species and impoverish disappear. Aryan is, for Hitler, in humans the master race. Nature therefore commissioned to dominate the world by eliminating the weakest. « Imposing the inability of married descendants reproduce damaged it is to work the clearest reasons » or « The world belongs only strong practicing total solutions. » Again, Nietzsche would not have said something else. Later in the book, Hitler is already developing concepts that will become major (20 years later) the foundation of its racial policies:

• Nature tends to raise the level of beings;
• There are characters that distinguish species;
• each congener can mate with a similar (against Hitler cites examples in nature-such as mullet but notes their infertility which accredits point 1. (only the maintenance of racial purity improves the species);
• there is a struggle between races for living space;
• to limit the weak nature submits low stringent conditions of existence (and thus eliminates ensuring progress and therefore the survival of the species);
•  Nature does not coupling between strong and weak, because the offspring, midway between both parents, is lower in the scale of values than was the strong;
• to maintain a specific civilization, we must keep the man who created him (Hitler cites examples of miscegenation (eg in South America between the Spanish and Indian) that led to the ruin of civilization);
• it is necessary to rely on an inferior race to climb the top step of civilization and to compensate for the lack of natural resources;
• a superior race is recognizable thanks to its ability to put his special interest (that of the individual) in the background to devote himself entirely to the public interest (idealism). The superior race has an innate sense of community. The individual who composes it has the capacity for sacrifice for the community.

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BIRTH From POLITICIAN
Man HITLER policy born on the ruins of the surrender of 11 November 1918 and grows by feeding on hatred for the Chapter (the « November criminals »). He joined Munich then in full civil war. Briefly in the hands of the Reds, the Republic of Bavaria is taken over by the corps. For Corporal Hitler, conspiracy obvious (see more conspiracy theory Law). He speaks in a few barracks and realizes what he already knew: he can speak. He was given the espionage of a political splinter group: DAP (German Workers Party). Mayonnaise takes quickly because he quickly realizes that between his ideas and those of the party founded by Harrer, are no big differences. He became the DAP publicity chief, whose cash is limited for now to 7 marks and the number of members to 7. « goodwill but impotence. » It will not last…

Hitler and the conspiracy theory
One of the fundamental tenets of DAP is that of conspiracy theory: the stab in the back. The Jews (them again) have infiltrated the industry and the German finance and conspired with their Marxist allies, on the back lines to capitulate Germany. The strike ammunition is the best example. The origin of defeat is not military.

Hitler and prostitution
HITLER laments syphilis and tuberculosis, and found their origin in prostitution he condemns. Prostitution endangers the moral order, descent « instead of vigorous children of a natural feeling, we will not see the lamentable product of a financial transaction practical. Of course, it is possible to laugh for a while nature but revenge is inevitable, it manifests later or better man finds out too late.  »

Hitler and Culture
Hitler defends the legacy of the past (mainly Frederick the Great (or II of Prussia death in 1786)), an essential element of building the future. Marxism, meanwhile, seeking to innovate to develop a « degenerate » art. Hitler refers to Cubism and Dadaism. In short, Hitler was a conservative. An analysis reveals that his draft GERMANIA city gets the big guns of the Greek and Roman art.

Hitler and Religion
A quote illustrates his thinking on the subject: « The great mass of the people is not composed of philosophers. But for the masses, faith is the only basis for a moral worldview. « Basically, it can be assumed that Hitler was thinking (repeatedly, he cites the creator). It is less certain that he was Christian. But for purely pragmatic matters including to conquer the masses and keep them in a state of submission, he sees in religion, a particularly effective instrument and, in any case, complementary to its policy.

Hitler and the question JEWISH
The Jew is designated as the enemy and the source of all evils. For Hitler, it has an intellect (de) formed in contact with the surrounding peoples. It has a strong self-preservation, but is not evidence of idealism (the willingness to sacrifice for the community). This instinct is gregarious (example given by Hitler: the horses come together in times of danger and disperse as soon as it is removed). Since there is no Jewish idealism, there is no Jewish state, no Jewish civilization, nor of Jewish art. HITLER compares the Jew a « parasite looking for a nourishing soil. « He repeatedly cites Schopenhauer » the Jew is the great master of lies.  » He sees in the Talmud a list of instructions to maintain the purity of Jewish blood and a code to regulate relations between members of the community and between the community and outside. He thinks that the concept of « religious community » was invented to conceal the concept of race.

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Hitler and the Jewish plan for world domination

This plan was presented to him probably by Dietrich Eckart, a prominent member of society THULE that astonishment is not mentioned in Mein Kampf:

• one enters a country and hides;
• it creeps into the economy (but only as an intermediary and not as a producer: it practices the profession of usury (lending with interest));
• we settled down, by coming together in a neighborhood;
• is gradually taking the monopoly on business and trade. One becomes rich (by bleeding the wealth-producing workers) which causes jealousy of these and then hate;
• they besieged the government by flatteries;
• it lends to the Lord becomes our obligation;
• we are baptized (to cover up a little more);
• it pretends to be German.
• it pretends to be a friend of the men, philanthropists, to those we wish skinning. For this, we use Freemasonry (to woo middle class) and the press (for the rest); Christian blood is contaminated (especially high-nobility) by marriage; one seeks hegemony of the parliamentary system;
• proletarianizes we the little people continuing its bleeding; thus separating employers and employees.
• It was well organized capitalism (exploitation of the human race) as we please.
• We approach the victims posing as virtuous and generous (by way of Marxism). The course sees that mass of fire. She believes his fight for good, but in fact struggle for international capitalism by destroying the national economy and thus its independence. A quote from Hitler illuminates this point « Marxism ruin the personality and race that were the biggest obstacle to the domination of the Jewish race. » In the spirit, the union movement is to provide for the recruitment of the masses by claiming social rights. However, the Jewish trade unionist takes care of claiming the impossible to be sure of the answer, and so foment unrest.

When the Jew has enough sitting his dominance, he reappears in the open. It is too late to react.

Hitler and DAP (Deutsche Partei Arbeitei: the party of German workers)
The frame probably existed before the entry HITLER DAP. The main points are as follows (note that Hitler will follow this program to the letter, on his return to politics)

• winning the masses;
• educate the masses;
• nationalization of the masses ( « objectivity is weak is the will of force »);
• destroy international poisoners;
• treat the Jewish question;
• bring us to the anti-national camps;
• develop an effective propaganda;
• conquer (through elections) political power;
• remove parliamentarism; *
• ability to enter parliament but only to disassemble;
• no religious reform (serves moral straitjacket to ground);
• the fewest possible intermediary in the organization;
• no union with other parties (= weakening compromise);
• growth by fanaticism (as done successfully Christianity);
• recognition of the value of the individual: (it is a force to respect a being of genius, it is not one to respect the ground).

HITLER ends this first volume in chronicling the pathetic debut DAP to shudder at the dawn of 1920. He seems not to doubt the success of the party became the last bastion against communism and Jewish plot.

Volume II of Mein Kampf