I tried to read MK once, it was impenetrable. If you’re not intimately familiar with continental politics from the F/P war through Wiemar, most of it will sail noiselessly above your head.
I read in a history once that the joke in Nazi Germany was that Mine Kamph was like the Bible; everyone owned a copy, but nobody read it.
Yes, it was known to be impenetrable in the German Reich, but Germans thought it looked nice on their shelves and would occasionally read a two-sentence passage from it. Giggling optional.
Hitler wrote it by pacing up and down in his prison cell ranting while Goebbels took notes (or recorded it, but I don’t remember if he had a tape recorder, and didn’t have a steganograogern AFAIK. So yeah it smacks of radicalized old man ramblings much like Trump’s rally speeches.
I tried to read MK once, it was impenetrable. If you’re not intimately familiar with continental politics from the F/P war through Wiemar, most of it will sail noiselessly above your head.
I read in a history once that the joke in Nazi Germany was that Mine Kamph was like the Bible; everyone owned a copy, but nobody read it.
Yes, it was known to be impenetrable in the German Reich, but Germans thought it looked nice on their shelves and would occasionally read a two-sentence passage from it. Giggling optional.
Hitler wrote it by pacing up and down in his prison cell ranting while Goebbels took notes (or recorded it, but I don’t remember if he had a tape recorder, and didn’t have a steganograogern AFAIK. So yeah it smacks of radicalized old man ramblings much like Trump’s rally speeches.
I tried decades ago. It was utterly senseless and the writing so poor I wouldn’t credit a thing the author had to say.