Adolf Hitler Impossible Reich (libro primero: Berlín) (Spanish Edition)
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That was the head-space I approached this book in. I was expecting it to be almost painfully badly written and pretty much the awful rants of a nearly insane fool. I need to assure you, that is not the book I found. This book is actually frighteningly lucid and remarkably well written. It is a much more dangerous book than, say, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. That book is so embarrassingly badly written, so pathetically obviously a forgery that anyone with half a brain could do little else than laugh at it with derision. I was actually a bit surprised when Hitler referred to the Protocols in this — as I thought even he would have had more shame.
Nevertheless, the rest of his arguments against the Jews are much more carefully constructed and build in a way that has become a virtual template for any conspiracy theory. And what a conspiracy theory this is! Hitler starts by saying he never really had anything against the Jews, thought that they were just another religion and could hardly be bothered worrying about them.
In fact, he goes as far to say that if he had heard people speaking against them he would probably have stopped them and regarded these people as reactionary fools. At least, until his eyes were opened to the Jews infinite deceit after a series of interactions with them and Social Democrats following the death of his parents. This is the conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories. He keeps telling the reader just how lacking in creativity the Jews are — but if they are able to pull off half of the stuff he blames them for they must be nearly godlike in their powers.
There were only one or two sections in the book when these rants became tiresome — he clearly understood when to push his point and when to hold back. He sounds much more reasonable than I would have ever dreamt. The things that are most interesting about this book, to me anyway, were the glimpses into his life given early. The stuff with the mice he watched playing on the floor is the last thing I thought I would find in this book. The stuff about his father is gobsmackingly interesting.
As he says, he respected his father, but loved his mother. In fact, he makes it clear that he definitely did not want to become anything at all like his father. What he has to say about propaganda — essentially, people are stupid and so need to be told in the simplest terms imaginable what they need to believe and that all subtlety is wasted on them, made me wonder how people ever followed him given he is saying he is more than happy to lie to his followers.
This ought to be much more chilling for us today flicked on the television and watched any ads lately? This view is increased by this dismissal of female sexuality as entirely submissive. Sex plays a large role in his argument against the Jews. Jews marry off their daughters to Aryans as they know that the best way to overcome a nation is to attack its blood and their sons lie in wait to seduce Aryan women.
By diluting Aryan blood and keeping the purity of their own blood he never explains how both of these are possible at the same time except for vague references to the purity of the male blood line of Jews - the opposite of the case, in fact they hope to one day take over the world. I can see how easy it would be for someone suffering from the defeat of Germany to want to believe the reason for their defeat and hardships was a Jewish conspiracy. I got to the end of the first volume and decided I had heard enough. If you wanted a conspiracy theory, perhaps a good one would be that conservatives tend to say Hitler is impossible to read so that people will not see the similarities of his views with their arguments.
This one is so extreme it is little wonder it took the entire efforts of the state to continue it. Even then, it is doubtful Germans actually believed it — the big lie was just enough to allow one of the greatest crimes in history to be committed, but not enough to truly justify it even to those following through with the vision. There are chilling moments here — particularly given what happened next and not just to the Jews but also to the Slavs.
His discussion of Russia is particularly chilling. But then there are moments of remarkable insight. He talks of people who want to lead the movement who have been active for 40 years and yet have not achieved their aims or stopped their opponents from achieving their aims. He points out that this is a clear sign of how pathetic their aims must be. This is a very interesting argument and one it would be difficult to argue against.
There are many long standing Marxists and Nazis who would do well to consider the implications of what he is saying here. All the same, this book is disturbing given what we know about what came next. And it is impossible now to not read between the lines and hear the awful silence of the death camps echoing throughout this book. The point is, however, that many of his arguments are little different from what is dished up today. I would have preferred this to be much more extreme than it ended up being.
I would have felt safer that way. Our remarkable ability to create scapegoats has not deserted us with the years or with the knowledge of the consequences this madness had in Europe. I am glad I read this — but one volume was more than enough. View all 60 comments. Trevor I think one of Steven Pinker's books asks that exact same question, about how clusters of ideas get associated with the right or the left, when there I think one of Steven Pinker's books asks that exact same question, about how clusters of ideas get associated with the right or the left, when there doesn't always seem to be a necessary connection otherwise.
Racial purity, though, is essential to nationalism - and it is interesting that the racial enemy is so often presented as being unconcerned by their own racial purity, since any amount of their blood will automatically debase 'our' blood and reduce us to their level, their secret ploy all along.
I've grown up with Jews - marrying outside their religion is hardly something that is welcomed with open arms. In fact, no religion sets up food taboos if they want their children to marry others around them. Food taboos are designed to encourage disgust in the racial other. For a while my daughter got me interested in the problem of disgust and how it is used as a social organising principle. It is remarkably potent for what it achieves. And our disgust response is physical, rather than just emotional or rational. It isn't something we can 'think' away. There is a lovely bit in Never Let Me Go where the woman who runs the school recoils when one of the students comes too close to her.
Her rational brain loves the children and would do anything to help them - but she cannot control her physical disgust which repulses her from them. Racism really is a deeply dehumanising thing, it dehumanises all of us. Mimi Interesting points Trevor, this is essentially what Mary Douglas is discussing in 'Purity and Danger' when she discusses 'matter out of place' she inc Interesting points Trevor, this is essentially what Mary Douglas is discussing in 'Purity and Danger' when she discusses 'matter out of place' she includes reference to food taboos as part of that.
View all 24 comments. Mein Kampf or My Struggle: Understanding their guidebook might be the best way to beat them at their own game.
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Many readers today avoid the book to avoid the taint of being seen reading it an Mein Kampf or My Struggle: Many readers today avoid the book to avoid the taint of being seen reading it and also out of fear of perhaps falling under its influence. That is considered to be playing into the hands of the ones who are willing to use he powerful methods present therein. If the book was indeed a powerfully reasoned piece of work this would have held true. Instead it turned out to be a pathetic work, which only showcases the workings of a weak mind that constructed all its arguments from pre-conceived notions and never examined the basis of its arguments.
It is clear that Hitler never bothered to understand the core ideas behind evolution, species selection, etc. Darwin had been pretty clear about all this, writing half a century or more before Hitler came up with his tripe. And it s not because of hasty constructions. Hitler takes all the time n the world and spends most of his book rehashing the same ideas in the same ways again and again. It is an insufferable drag. And even when he departs from his obsession with race purity and talks of geopolitics and grand strategy, he again jumps to conclusions about Britain, France and Russia that clearly proved to be wrong within his lifetime.
Most of his ideas had to be abandoned in the course of the war. I am sure he came up with great explanations whenever this happened. That is the thing with this kind of 'method'. There is just no being wrong in it. The real question then is not whether we would buy his arguments but why anyone did.
It is not about reading Hitler to understand how modern Dictators might use the same tactics, but understanding the conditions that allow these pretty rudimentary tactics to succeed and to avoid those conditions. The best way yo have a world which rejects its Hitlers is to have a world that is not scared enough to accept without question essentially baseless fascist arguments. Hitler provides a good litmus test - wherever we see such ideas are getting currency, it might be time to examine what is causing the society to suspend common sense.
Unfortunately, we might not have to look far to see test cases. Many unsupported rants pepper the book, repeated ad nauseam. Everything about it is bad, except the Germans. Should be brought into the fold, but carefully. The perfect race, the one to be preserved. Has to be expanded. Germany has been greatly discriminated against after the First World War okay, have to concede this, but it doesn't take a genius to figure that. Probably just echoing Keynes in any case. German people have suffered enough. It is time for a Great Leader to arise again.
No prizes for guessing who that is! Always vaguely and conveniently defined. But incontrovertibly the scum of humanity. How can the masses ever rule? Democracy is only an excuse for rulers to pass on responsibility and avoid taking tough decisions. What a country under there needs is a strong leader who canned do what needs to be done. To be avoided at all costs. Manipulated and brain washed by the Jews. They have to be emancipated by effective and complete control, by a leader. The purview of the Jews. Only the weak and the leach-like attempt these activities.
The German people to abjure them and take to manly activities that does not suck the life blood of the country and the race. Not to be allowed. State has to control production to avoid wastage. Well, not in name, but we need a leader who can recreate the grand Reich of old. Who cares if it looks exactly like a kingship? The scourge of this earth! The tool of the Jews! Initiated by a Jew, what more proof do you need?
Exists only to corrupt the masses. Has to be used only to reach the masses. Should be superseded forthwith after that. Has to be controlled so that only the state views are set forth. Otherwise the Jews and the Marxists will take it over and corrupt the public even more. Have to be preserved and kept apart to prevent dilution, especially the Germanic race of the Aryans. My Way or The Highway! View all 63 comments. Sep 19, Ahmad rated it it was ok. View all 7 comments.
Jul 26, Sean O'Hara rated it did not like it Recommends it for: Inbred honky trailertrash who think they're better than people of color. The author of this book is certainly one of the five or ten biggest nutjobs in the history of the world. No one should ever listen to a thing he says.
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If you agree with him, you're some kind of Nazi scumbag. View all 16 comments. Apr 27, Bel Rodrigues rated it it was ok Shelves: Yes, I have read it, hell I still own a copy. I make no excuses, and will not issue apologies. I am not a nazi sympathizer, anti-semitic, or racist, fascist, or any other variety of colorful names that I have been called for having this on my shelf. I confess that I was curious about the method to the madness and how such whole sale slaughter of human life could be rationalized. Get past impressions that are forced down your throat in history class and read it for what it is, a historical text t Yes, I have read it, hell I still own a copy.
Get past impressions that are forced down your throat in history class and read it for what it is, a historical text that, like it or not, had a tremendous impact on the world as we know it today. It is a difficult read and, to be frank, a large percent of the population will not have the fortitude to pick it up off the shelf in a bookstore or be able get past the ideas presented and discard it outright. One does not have to agree with the author in order to examine the text as a political and social commentary of the time.
The important thing, as in so many hot issues, is to keep everything in perspective and make up your own mind. View all 8 comments. Jul 26, Jessaka rated it did not like it Shelves: Berkeley back in the s. I have no idea what I was checking out at the time. Maybe it was the time that I had spent at their library reading the Salem Witch Trials, the court documents. But as I was standing at the counter, I noticed a speech written on the wall behind the desk.
I have not been able to find that speech, and it is no longer on their wall behind that check out desk. I have read a lot of books about the holocaust since then. Well, back in , when I was helping our library during their book sale, the one where I frequent now, I noticed some books on Hitler and bought one. That led me to wondering about the book Mein Kampf, so I ordered it used online.
After reading maybe half of it, I threw it in the garbage where it belonged. Mein Kampf was a constant rant on Jews. It repeated the same issues over and over again. I saw how people could actually believe what he was saying if they were not educated. I never found it. Still, I think if a person in inclined to be racist, to hate, they will not pay any attention to these comments. For hate is blinding. If you have grown up with parents who hate, who are bigots or racists, you will grow up with these views as well.
Some people get over these views, especially if they get an education, and then there are those who see through it from a young age. We are told to love all people by the various religions, but I have seen so much hatred i the Christian religions, so much crime, that my eyes have been opened. I just want to get away from them and stay away. I have tried; I now just tell them what I think and walk away. I will not compare Hitler with anyone in political power today and hope to not get any comments on this book in this regards, because if I do, those comments will be deleted.
Remember, what you write on the internet you are writing on the sky. I will also delete any comments made by racists. I happen to believe that free speech does not include hate speech, and I think we should incorporate a law against hate speech here in America. View all 12 comments. No one, especially not insane anti-semites.
Glancing at this book, no one has given it even one star. I find this kind of hard to believe, because the book is amazing. Amazing that one person could have not only thought these things but had the audacity to write them down for posterity. I read a good chunk of this in it's original German form. It was assigned to us in high school as a "get as far as you can stomach" sort of read.
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I admittedly skimmed most of it, and cringed at the bits I did read. But as I had an idea for an altered book pro Glancing at this book, no one has given it even one star. But as I had an idea for an altered book project, I decided to suck it up and read it. Hitler certainly was not a big fan of personal responsibility, let's put it that way.
His parents were at fault when he was unhappy as a child, his teachers were at fault for his doing badly in school His whole jail stay in the first place was a joke. He plays it off as one of his "struggles", but in reality his jail cell was as much of a hardship as Walden was a remote wilderness. All I could think of, in the short bursts I managed to read, was how everyone I've ever known of saying "Oh, but he was so charismatic!
The guy was a nutjob. You'd lock your car door if he passed. Seriously, gimme a break. It's a difficult read. I hesitate to call it nationalistic as others have- there are people who are dedicated to their country without being so maddeningly accusatory.
The only thing I find striking is the fact it was written before he became Fuhrer View all 5 comments. Only those interested in general political theory. One of my top 2 favorite pieces of autobiographical political propaganda Oct 27, Matt Brady rated it did not like it. I found the narrator, a racist german war veteran imprisoned for an attempted coup, very unrelateable. He was just not very sympathetic or likeable. Also the book is written in german, which is not very relateable to me, someone who doesnt speak german. View all 3 comments. View all 33 comments. Mar 07, Clumsy Storyteller rated it did not like it Recommends it for: The writing style translation , his ideas are just disturbingly fascinating, Bigotry at its best!
Hitler was once a boy who wanted to be a painter. He wasn't born evil. He gradually become evil with time. Also, Hitler was actually loved by his own people. Say what you want to say about him. He was a strong leader who knew how to run a damn empire! View all 15 comments. Dec 05, Jonathan Ashleigh rated it did not like it Shelves: I say "finally" because I pre-ordered it in mid-December and it should appear on January 8th. The publishing house decided to print only 4, copies, when the number of pre-orders allegedly was 15, at this point. The reprint seems to be running at full speed.
Interestingly the book can currently not be ordered from Amazon, although they say on their website: About the book itself: It contains the complete text of Hitler's Mein Kampf together with a huge amount of scientific annotations that were made by a group of historians at the German Institute for Contemporary History. Click here for the description of the book on their website: This photo should give you an idea of how big and heavy these books are dollar-bill for scale: The main part has the following general structure: Not all pages are so full as seen here, but most of them are.
As is usual in such a work, we also find a huge amount of additional information, a page preface with essays and information about the original book, as well as a page appendix. When and how I read this giant book, I have not decided yet. Nonetheless, I persevered, and I have to admit that this makes me a little proud of myself.
However, it was illegal to reissue Mein Kampf ; not for ideological, but simply for copyright reasons.
In , copyrights were transferred to the state of Bavaria which also assumed legal succession and trusteeship of the original publisher Eher Verlag, Munich , and they denied any attempt to re-publish the book. Under German law a copyright expires 70 years after the death of the author and because Hitler died in the copyright expired at the end of Therefore, as of , the text is in the public domain in Germany.
BTW, for the same reason, access to gutenberg. Read some of the articles before and after the publication here mostly German, some English. Book History Hitler wrote the first volume of Mein Kampf during his incarceration at the Landsberg penal facility. In retrospect, this imprisonment was even a lucky break for Hitler. Part of the first volume is some kind of autobiography. At the time, writing a resume was part of rehabilitation and mandatory for inmates.
There are contradictory statements about the exact development of the book and Hitler himself has commented on this only very little. The genesis, as far as it is known, is discussed in the introduction. I happened to come into possession of an original edition but I doubt I would have read more than three chapters of it. Is this an evil book? Or a dangerous one?
Do you become a Nazi by reading it? Or are Nazis converted by reading this pamphlet? In my opinion, nationalist ideas are neither fueled nor diminished by a scientific edition like this one. I can not remember ever having read a book that has such a weak prose. But there are also some more or less consistent stylistic devices with which Hitler repeatedly works and which perfidiously even seem to fulfill their purpose: The whole style has one advantage: You can take Hitler at face-value, as history has shown in a frightening way.
Unfortunately not many people did that at the time of publication when it was still possible to eradicate this still rather fragile movement. Hatred of the Jews and Lebensraum in the East. Again and again Hitler returns to these topics from different angles. Elsewhere he certifies that the Jewish race has a self-preservation instinct stronger than any other.
For Hitler, at the time of writing Mein Kampf , Germany lay on the ground, was, in his eyes, crippled. Only a strong leader would be able to counteract this downfall and make Germany great again. And, of course, this leader can only be himself, even if he does not explicitly say so here we have a little subtext. This was out of the question for Hitler. As a precaution, the passage on France was removed from the French translation For this, Hitler was even prepared to make alliances with Italy and England.
He desperately wanted a new war - that can not be interpreted any differently while reading. There are more than of them, so on average 4. They serve both as contextualization, as well as correction of innumerable insinuations and flat mistakes of the text and at the times where Hitler got something right, the annotations provide further facts that were conveniently left out and put things into perspective. Each footnote is provided with at least one reference to a source, the bibliography or another place in Mein Kampf.
I can not imagine what a Herculean task was accomplished here. The acknowledgments at the end of the book mention the many topics that needed expert advice. And there were many, many, many people involved in the production of the complete work! The sheer amount of footnotes may look intimidating to the reader at first. For example, if you turn a page and see the following text that awaits reading, you might feel like quitting. The book calls a spade a spade, where necessary. Hitler was not born anit-Semit. He had his sources. And they are called by name, wherever possible.
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In January , when the book was presented to the public, Ian Kershaw author of a two-volume Hitler biography also spoke and found only praising words for this edition. How do you judge a book whose text belongs to the worst I ever read in content and form , but whose annotations and further information are valuable enough to give it four or even five stars? An average of two or three does not seem right to me either — lukewarm somehow.
In the end, I opted for the worst possible rating. Today this monopoly is broken and their power diminishes every year no matter what they do. They may tighten their grip to keep hold of their influence, but this runs like sand through their fingers. I want to thank the commenters who have reacted to my previous articles, providing many useful insights and bits of information. I like to think I am not an uncritical person. Because of their enormous world-historical impact, Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich are supremely important to understanding the twentieth century and the development of Western civilization.
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