Hate-for-All 2015

Re: Hate-for-All 2015

Postby Phighter » Sat Aug 08, 2015 3:05 am

All the your mom jokes
make me want to vom
no one has any skill anymore in their hatred
maybe next time Hate Week will remain dead.
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Re: Hate-for-All 2015

Postby Revolving Royal » Sat Aug 08, 2015 3:19 am

Phighter wrote:All the your mom jokes
make me want to vom

You know what makes me vomit? That you are allowed to force your terrible slang on the world at large



Hate Week peons
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Re: Hate-for-All 2015

Postby FaceTheCitizen » Sat Aug 08, 2015 3:32 am

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Re: Hate-for-All 2015

Postby Tesseracts » Sat Aug 08, 2015 3:55 am

TRIGGER WARNING: HATRED

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Re: Hate-for-All 2015

Postby Revolving Royal » Sat Aug 08, 2015 3:58 am

Now look what the hell you started Face. Unforgivable
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Re: Hate-for-All 2015

Postby Tesseracts » Sat Aug 08, 2015 4:43 am

I'm taking hatred to the next level. I decided to inflict this forum with the most hateful thing I could find. This is intended for everyone. Enjoy.

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ADOLF HITLER MEIN KAMPF Complete and Unabridged FULLY ANNOTATED EDITORIAL SPONSORS John Chamberlain Sidney B. Fay John Gunther Carlton J. H. Hayes aham Mutton in Johnson iam L Langer Iter Millis ul de Roussy de Sales oige N. Shuster REYNAL A HITCHCOCK 1941 NEW COPYRIGHT, IQ39. BY HOUGBTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM COPYRIGHT, Ip2S, BY VERLAG FRZ. EHER NACHF. G.m.D.H. COPYRIGHT, Z927. BY VERLAG FRZ. EHER NACHF. G.m.b.H. This Edition is published by ar- rangement with Hough ton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts. NINETEENTH PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. PUBLISHERS' NOTE BOTH the international situation and certain pub- lishing exigencies have dictated the preparation of this book at a far higher rate of speed than we should have liked. We wished it editorially to be, and we believe it is, a fine, scholarly, genuinely definitive edition of an enormously important book. If small errors have crept in, and we think even those are few and far between, they are due solely to the pressure of time. We cannot possibly thank here by name all those who have assisted in the task. The work could not have been possible without the devoted help of our editorial commit- tee, and notably Dr. Alvin Johnson, who has been a tower of strength in many directions. To Mr. George N. Shuster, who has labored with unwearying effectiveness night and day for many weeks, our debt is incalculable. Mr. Helmut Ripperger, on whom a heavy burden has fallen, and various friends and helpers at the New School for Social Research have likewise given without stint of their time and energy to the translation. Mr. C. H. Hand, Jr., will not like to find himself thus singled out, but we cannot overlook the tribute we owe him for his constant effective aid. Two other special friends of the enterprise who have been of enormous help, but who by their own wish shall be name- less, we none the less wish here to thank anonymously. Finally, to Houghton MifHin Company we wish to extend our hearty salutations. We should never ask for more fair- minded or resourceful collaborators in a publishing enter- prise. E. R. C. N. H. INTRODUCTION THIS is an accurate translation of a book which is likely to remain the most important political tract of our time, and which is now for the first time avail- able in complete form to the American reader. Until now the only version of M ein Kampf in English has been a con- densation of the complete book, published in 1933, con- taining less than half of the total text. The Austrian and Czecho-Slovakian crises of last year, culminating for the moment in the pact of Munich, have awakened the American public as never before to the seriousness to the world and to themselves of the Nazi program, and consequently to the possible significance of every page of the book that can justly be regarded as the Nazi gospel. Here, then, in its entirety, for the American people to read and to judge for themselves, is the work which has sold in Germany by the millions, and which is probably the best written evidence of the character, the mind, and the spirit of Adolf Hitler and his 'government. There are undoubtedly passages of great importance which now appear in English for the first time. For exam- ple, Chapter V of the condensed version left out the whole of what Hitler describes as his wartime reflections on propaganda and on methods for fighting Marxism. We have marked at various points in the text the important new material. Furthermore, any abridgment must neces- sarily fail, in proportion to the degree of its condensa- tion, to give the full flavor of the author's mind. Even the repetitions have their significance in conveying a sense of the character behind them. Mein Kampf is, above all, a book of feeling. vlii INTRODUCTION All this is in no sense a condemnation of the abridgement prepared by E. T. S. Dugdale in England and published under the title My Battle, as in 1933 it seemed most un- likely that any large American public would care to read Mein Kampf as a whole, and for its time and purpose it was undoubtedly adequate. Since then the whole book has as- sumed a more urgent character. The translation here offered is from the first German edi- tion the two volumes respectively of 1925 and 1927, which are now quite difficult to obtain. Continuous refer- ence hks been made, however, to later editions, and any changes of significance have been noted. Such changes are not as extensive as popularly supposed. The reader must bear in mind that Hitler is no artist in literary expression, but a rough-and-ready political pam- phleteer often indifferent to grammar and syntax alike. Departures from normal German form have not been re- produced, since no purpose would be served thereby, but where the demands of a perfectly smooth English style might seem to conflict with exactness of meaning, the original German forms have been followed as literally as possible. We believe the translation cannot be successfully challenged. We turn to our decision to annotate the text. Mein Kampf is frequently a difficult book for the American reader to understand. Few Americans are, in the very nature of things, so aware of the German historical background that they can surmise without help what the author is discuss- ing. What, for example, was meant by 'interest slavery 1 ? And who was Leo Schlageter? In making annotations of this kind, we have tried to adhere to a middle course, as- suming some familiarity with Nazi history, but leaving very recondite information for scholars. Notes of this kind are based almost exclusively on German sources, and we be- Ifeve we can vouch for their accuracy and objectivity. INTRODUCTION 1 Then, too, Mein Kampf is a propagandistic essay by a violent partisan. As such it often warps historical truth and sometimes ignores it completely. We have, therefore, felt it our duty to accompany the text with factual information which constitutes an extensive critique of the original. No American would like to assume responsibility for giving the public a text which, if not tested in the light of diligent inquiry, might convey the impression that Hitler was writ- ing history rather than propaganda. It is more probable, however, that we shall have to face the opposite criticism that we have been too impartial, too objective, too little concerned with rebuttal. To this we should like to reply that truth, the accurate truth, is the only argument which in the long run prevails. One may talk a fact out of exist- ence for a time, but it somehow survives. We are prepared to rest our case as editors on our belief in that ultimate triumph. One point in particular may need emphasis. Large por- tions of Mrin Kampf are devoted to the question of race as a substructure on which to erect an anti-Semitic policy. We have not let these passages go unchallenged, but we have also not felt it necessary to include a discussion of race of our own invention. The greatest anthropologists of the twentieth century are agreed that 'race' is a practically meaningless word. All one can legitimately do, therefore, is to challenge statements of 'race history' as being fig- ments of the imagination, and to point out that they are at bottom more or less subtle ways of supporting still more ab- solute and violent forms of nationalism than even the nine- teenth century knew. In addition we have made specific objections to Hitler's anti-Semitic statements where they contradict known historical facts. A word now concerning the method adopted for the pre- sentation of the notes. As a rule we have put information relative to the sources and origins of National Socialism * INTRODUCTION into the first volume, reserving for the second volume the history of Hitler's rise to power and of German achievement since that time. Departures from this method have been made when a given point seemed explainable in no other way. This arrangement will enable the reader, should he so desire, to read the notes independently of the text itself. Naturally these notes are not designed to form a treatise on Hitlerism, but if they were read together with the books mentioned by name, they should provide a fairly adequate history of the Third Reich* Most of the notes are set in close proximity to the passage to which they refer. In a few instances, however, it seemed important to write at greater length, so that the material appears in the form of an appendix to the chapter in question. The separation be- tween text and commentary is clearly indicated, so that the reader will have no difficulty on that score. In conclusion, what should one expect to learn from Mein Kampf? Read with a clear eye, the book will show what manner of man Der Ftihrer is one who as a boy had nothing excepting a passionate belief that Germany must obtain a larger place in the sun with the help of the sword once wielded so efficiently by Prussian kings; who learned to define to his own satisfaction what groups wanted this kind of Germany, and what other groups were indifferent or opposed to that ideal ; who after the War gathered round him all those who refused to concede that defeat neces- sarily meant the end of German expansion; and who, finally, with their help, got control of the government and then set out to mobilize the whole nation for a new advance. Before the War he lived in Austria and felt that the Habsburgs, by making concessions to the Slavic groups in their empire, were putting the German group on a level with others and therefore lessening its willingness to dom- inate. Therefore, he wanted the German group to get rid of the Habsburgs and join forces with the greater Prussian INTRODUCTION id Germany. After the War he felt that the leaders of the Re- public, by seeking to bring about internal reconciliation and by making concessions to the Allies, were doing exactly what the old Habsburgs had done, excepting that this time it was not Austrian Germany but the holy of holies, Prussia itself, that was being weakened. To those who said that it was war which had sapped the substance of Germany, and that another war would end European civilization, he re- plied that it was only 'eternal peace' which destroyed peo- ples and that neither the individual nor society could escape Nature's decree that the fittest alone survive. Yet this simple philosophy is by no means the whole Hitler. He has added to it the moving force which, re- vealed both in his struggle for power and in his use of that power since 1933, is the most startling phenomenon of our time. Only the leaders of the Mohammedan, French, and Russian revolutions have aroused a comparable driving power, and at present it dominates Europe. The forces in opposition have lacked the clearness of plan, the unity of motive, the certainty of conviction, needed to make their cause prevail. The engines of industry now spin round in trepidation, and the engines of war are piled giddily in higher and higher pyramids. Already in Europe, the last are all that really count the others work to create an illusion and to help meet the staggering costs. There is no stopping them until there are in the world ideas or ideals which are stronger than that contained in Mein Kampf. It is our profound conviction that as soon as enough people have seen through this book, lived with it until the facts they behold are so startlingly vivid that all else is obscure by comparison, the tide will begin to turn. We have all of us the deepest regard for the German peo- ple. Some of us have given a good deal of time and energy to the study of just German demands and to the fostering xii INTRODUCTION of better understanding of the German tradition. None of us has abandoned the sincere belief that Germany is des- tined to be a great and cherished member of the family of peoples. So we have elected to set down without malice, yet with all the truth we can muster, the record as we see it. JOHN CHAMBERLAIN SIDNEY B. FAY JOHN GUNTHER CARLTON J. H. HAYES GRAHAM HUTTON ALVIN JOHNSON t WILLIAM L. LANGER WALTER MILLIS R. DE ROUSSY DE SALES GEORGE N. SHUSTER DEDICATION ON NOVEMBER 9, 1923, at 12.30 in the afternoon, in front of the Feldherrnhalle as well as in the courtyard of the former War Ministry, the following men, steadfast in their belief in the resurrection of their people, were killed : ALFARTH, Felix, businessman, b. July 5, 1901 BAURIEDL, Andreas, hatter, b. May 4, 1879 CASELLA, Theodor, bank employee, b. August 8, 1900 EHRLICH, Wilhelm, bank employee, b. August 19, 1894 FAUST, Martin, bank employee, b. January 27, 1901 HECHENBERGER, Anton, locksmith, b. September 28,; 1902 KOERNER, Oskar, businessman, b. January 4, 1875 KUHN, Karl, headwaiter, b. July 26, 1897 LAFORCE, Karl, student of Engineering, b. October 28, 1904 NEUBAUER, Kurt, valet, b. March 27, 1899 PAPE, Claus von, businessman, b. August 16, 1904 PFORDTEN, Theodor von der, County Court Council- lor, b. May 14, 1873 RICKMERS, Johann, retired Cavalry Captain, b. May 7, 1881 ScHEUBNER-RicHTER, Max Erwin von, Doctor of Engineering, b. January 9, 1884 STRANSKY, Lorenz Ritter von, Engineer, b. March 14, 1889 WOLF, Wilhelm, businessman, b. October 19, 1898 So-called national authorities denied these dead heroes a common grave. Therefore I dedicate to them, for common memory, the first volume of this work, as the blood witnesses of which they may continue to serve as a brilliant example for the followers of our movement. ADOLF HITLER LANDSBBRG ON THE LECH PRISON OF THE FORTRESS October 16, 1924 PREFACE ON APRIL I, 1924, because of the sentence handed down by the People's Court of Munich, I had to begin that day, serving my term in the fortress at Landsberg on the Lech. Thus, after years of uninterrupted work, I was afforded for the first time an opportunity to embark on a task insisted upon by many and felt to be serviceable to the movement by myself. Therefore, I resolved not only to set forth, in two volumes, the object of our movement, but also to draw a picture of its development. From this more can be learned than from any purely doctrinary treatise. That also gave me the opportunity to describe my own development, as far as this is necessary for the understand- ing of the first as well as the second volume, and which may serve to destroy the evil legends created about my person by the Jewish press. With this work I do not address myself to strangers, but to those adherents of the movement who belong to it with their hearts and whose reason now seeks a more intimate enlightenment. I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken than by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers. Nevertheless, the basic elements of a doctrine must be set down in permanent form in order that it may be repre- sented in the same way and in unity. In this connection these two volumes should serve as building stones which I add to our common work. THE AUTHOR LANDSBERG ON THE LECH PRISON OF THB FORTRESS CONTENTS Volume I PUBLISHERS' NOTE v INTRODUCTION vii DEDICATION xiii PREFACE xv Chapter I AT HOME 3 The Young Ringleader 7 Enthusiasm for War 8 Drawing Talent IO Never State Official 12 But Painter 13 The Young Nationalist 15 The German Ostmark 15 The Fight for the German Nationality 16 History Lessons 1 8 History Favorite Subject 2O The Habsburgs' Policy of Slavization 21 The Young Wagnerian 23 Father's Death ' 24 Mother's Passing Away 25 Chapter II YEARS OF STUDY AND SUFFERING IN VIENNA ... 26 An Architect's Ability 27 Five Years of Misery 29 Th Genius of Youth 30 Unsocial Vienna 31 The Contrasts 32 The Unskilled Worker 34 xviil CONTENTS The Uncertainty of Making a Living 35 The Worker's Fate 36 The Perpetual Mirage of Hunger 37 Unfortunate Victims of Bad Social Conditions 37 The Nature of Social Activity 39 The Lack of ' National Pride ' 41 The Rats of Political Poisoning 42 Martyrdom of the Worker's Child 43 The Presupposition for - Nationalization ' 44 Arduous Study 44 The Art of Reading 46-49 Social Democracy 50 First Encounter with Social Democrats 5I~53 The Red Terror 53 The Social Democrat Press 54 The Psyche of the Masses 56 Tactics of Marxism 58 The Victims of the Red Tempters 59 The Sins of the Bourgeoisie 59 The Necessity of Union Activity 60 The Struggle for Power 62 Politization of the Unions 63 The Threatening Thundercloud 64 The Key to Social Democracy 66 The Jewish Question 66 The So-called World Press 68 Criticism of Kaiser Wilhelm II 70 The Greatest German Mayor 72 Is This Also a Jew? 73 The Zionists 74 The Spiritual Pestilence of Jewry 76 The Cunning of the 'World Press' 77 The Manager of Vice 78 The Jew as Leader of Social Democracy 78-~79 Jewish Dialectics 8 1 The Cosmopolite Changes into a Fanatical Anti- Semite 83 Marxism and Nature 84 CONTENTS xlx Chapter III GENERAL POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS FROM MY TIME IN VIENNA 85 The Politician 86 Political Thinking 87 Vienna's Last Rise 88 Germanity in Austria 89 Centrifugal Forces 96 The Tragic Guilt of the Habsburge 93 The Revolution of 1848 94 The Historical Liquidation of the Danube Monarchy 94 Parliamentarianism 95 The Soil of the Marxist World Plague 99 Lack of Responsibility IOO The Leader and the Masses IO2 The Incompetents and the Babblers IO2 Hiding Behind the Majority 103 Lined up in a Queue 105 The Parliamentarian Profiteers 106 4 Public Opinion' 108 The Machine for Educating the Masses 108 The Cuttlefish I IO The Will of the Majority 1 12 The Intellectual Demi-monde 1 14 The Gist of the Matter 115 Germanic Democracy 1 1 6 The Collapsing Dual Monarchy 119 The Pan -German Movement I2O The Dreams of the Forefathers 121 The Rebellion of the German- Austrians 121 Human Rights Breaks State Rights 123 The Merit of the Pan-Germans in Austria 124 Schoenerer and Lueger 125-129 Pacifism of the German Bourgeoisie 130 The Fight Against Parliamentarism 132 Parliament and Peoples' Assembly 133 'Parliamentarians' Instead of Leaders 135 xx CONTENTS The Magic of the Word 136 The Power of Speech 137 Mistakes of the Pan-German Movement 138 Religion and Politics 139 The Los-von-Rom Movement 140-152 Concentration 152 The Way of the Christian Social Party 153 A Splash of Baptismal Water 154 The Christian -Social Sham Anti-Semitism 156 Pan-German and Christian-Social 158 Rising Aversion Against the Habsburg State 159 The Old Mosaic Picture 1 60 The School of my Life 161-162 Chapter IV MUNICH 163 Germany's Wrong Policy of Alliance 164 The Jugglery of the Triple Alliance 165 The Bearers of the Idea of the Alliance 1 66 Insane Attitude 167 The Four Ways of German Politics 169-179 Pyramids Standing on their Points 180 With England Against Russia 183 The Dream of World-Peace 185 With Russia Against England 1 88 4 Peaceful Economic ' Conquest The Greatest Folly 1 88 The Englishman as Seen by the German Cartoonist 189 The Inner Weakness of the Triple Alliance 190 Ludendorff on the Weakness of the Triple Alliance 192 The Jewish-Socialist War-Agitators Against Russia 193 The Tempting Legacy 193 Warnings from German Conservatives 194 The Nature of the State 195-201 Symptoms of Decay 201 The Years of Destruction 2OI Prattling Quackery 203 CONTENTS xxi Chapter V THB WORLD WAR 204 The Impending Catastrophe 205 The Slav's Greatest Friend is Murdered 206 Austria's Ultimatum 206 The German Nation's Existence or Non-existence 207 The Meaning of the Struggle for Freedom 210 Joining a Bavarian Regiment 212 The Baptism of Fire 213 A Monument to Immortality 216 The Parliamentarian Prattlers 216 Drops of Wormwood in the General Enthusiasm 217 Misunderstood Marxism 2l8 What Was to be Done Now? 220 The Use of Force 221 Perseverance 222 The Attack Against the View of Life 223 The Same Rubbish 224 The Great Gap 225 Chapter VI WAR PROPAGANDA 227 Propaganda a Means 228 The Purpose of Propaganda 229 Propaganda Only for the Masses 230 The Task of Propaganda 231-232 The Psychology of Propaganda 233 The Consequence of Half Measures 236 German Mania of Objectivity 237 Pacifistic Dishwater 238 Propaganda for the Masses 239 The Enemy's Propaganda 240 CONTENTS Chapter VII THE REVOLUTION 243 The Enemy's First Leaflets 245 Lamenting Letters from Home 246 The Poison on the Front 246 Wounded 247 Boasting of One's Own Cowardice 248 The Duty-Shirkers 249 The Most Ingenious Trick of the Jew 252 The Ammunition Strike The Greatest Villainy 253 Russia's Collapse 256-257 The 'German ' Revolution Awaited Its Entry 258 The Result of the Ammunition Strike 258 The Front and the Political Rascals 260 Increase of the Decay 262 The Younger Reinforcements Fail 264 Poisoned by Mustard Gas 264 'Republic' 266 In Vain all the Sacrifices 267 Wretched and Miserable Criminals! 268 Scoundrels Are Without Honor 269 Chapter VIII BEGINNING OF MY POLITICAL ACTIVITY . . . .277 Social Revolutionary Party 280-281 Gottfried Feder 282 The Task of the Program-Maker 283 Program-Maker and Politician 284 The Marathon Runners of History 286 Breaking of the Tyranny of Interest 287 The ' Instruction Officer ' 289-290 CONTENTS xxlii Chapter IX THB 'GERMAN WORKERS' PARTY' 291 'My Political Awakening* 296 The Board Meeting in the 'Alte Rosenbad 9 297-298 The So-called ' Intelligentsia ' 300 The Seventh Member 301 Chapter X THE CAUSES OF THE COLLAPSE 302 Premonitory Symptoms of Collapse 3O3~~34 The Great Lie 306 The Culprits of the Collapse 307 Do Nations Perish by Lost Wars? 308 Among the Germans Every Third Man a Traitor 311 The Great Masters of Lying 313 Diseases of National Bodies 314 The Signs of Decay 315 The Idol of Mammon 316 Labor as the Object of Speculation 319 Half Measures One of the Most Evil Symptoms of Decay 322 The Gravediggers of the Monarchy 323 The Meaning of the Monarchy 324 The Cowards of 1918 326 Cowardice Towards Responsibility 327 Three Groups of Readers 328 The Pretended 'Freedom of the Press* 330 Mass Poisoning of the Nation 330 Tactics of the Jewish Press 331 The Result of Our Semi- Education 334 The ' Decent ' Press 335 Syphilis 336 The Miserable Products of Financial Expediency 337 The ' Defining of Attitude ' 338 CONTENTS The Sin Against the Blood and the Degradation of the Race 339 The Task of the Nation 341 Prostitution A Disgrace to Mankind 342 Marriage Not an End in Itself 343 Education of Youth 345~346 Premature and Prematurely Old 348 One of the Most Colossal Tasks 349 The 'Protective Paragraph* 350 The Energy for the Fight for Health 351 The Bolshevism of Art 352 The Decay of the Theater 355 The Tainting of the Great Past 356 Meaning and Purpose of Revolutions 358 Intellectual Preparation for Political Bolshevism 359 'Inner Experience* 360 'Human Settlements' 360 Monuments of the Community 362 Department Store and Hotel Characteristic Ex- pression of Culture 363 The Religious Situation 364 Organic State Laws and Dogmas 366 Political Abuse of Religion 367 Without Political Aims 368 The Failure of Parliamentarism 369 Half-hearted Solutions 370 The Lie of the German ' Militarism ' 374 The 'Idea of Risk' 376 The Parliamentarian Head, the Misfortune of the Navy 377 Villains, Scoundrels, Rascals, and Criminals 378 The German Advantages 380 Parade and Public Kitchen 381 The Stability of the State Authority 382 The Greatest Factor of Value The Army 383 The Greatest School of the German Nation 384 The Incomparable Body of Officials 386 The State Authority 387 The Ultimate Cause of the Collapse 388 CONTENTS xxv Chapter XI NATION AND RACE 389 The Race 390-391 The Result of All Race-crossing 392 Man and Idea 394 Race and Culture 396 Life is a Struggle 397 Founders of Culture 398 The Mirror of the Past 400 The Ingenious Race 402 The Aryan is the Bearer of Cultural Development 404 The Loss of the Purity of the Blood 406 The Aryan's Will to Sacrifice Himself 407 Purest Idealism Deepest Knowledge 41 1 The Aryan and the Jew 412 The 'Clever' Jew 412 Jewry's Instinct of Self-Preservation 414 Judaism's Sham Culture 416 The Jewish Ape 417 The Parasite 419 The First Great Lie 421 The Jewish Religion 422 Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion 423 The Development of Judaism 425 The Final Goal of Judaism 435 The ' Factory Worker ' 436 Employer and Employee 438 The Tactics of Judaism 440 The Nucleus of the 'Marxist* View of Life 441 The Organization of the Marxist World Doctrine 443 The Central Organization of International World Cheating 447 Dictatorship of the Proletariat 449 The Great, Final Revolution 450 Bastardized Nations 452 The Sham Prosperity of the Old Reich 453 A Germanic State of the German Nation 457 xx* CONTENTS Chapter XII THE FIRST PERIOD IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NA- TIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS' PARTY 456 A People Tom in Two Parts 457 The Lacking Will for Self -Preservation 459 The Winning of the Broad Masses 461 The Weak Momentum 462 The Best Property of the Nation 463 The Nationalization of the Masses 464 The Demands for This 465 The Smashing of Parliamentarianism 479 The Ingenious Idea 481 The Organization of the National Socialist Movement 482 Fanaticism 486 The Honorary Scar 488 Personality Cannot be Substituted 488 The Eternal Hands 489 The Speech Evening 490 The First Meeting 491 The First Success 492 Fight Against the Red Terror 494 The Second Meeting 495 The Shaping of the Young Movement 496 German Folkish Wandering Scholars 498 Folkish Comedians 499 'Folkish' 501 Spiritual Marches Against Berlin 502 The ' Spiritual Weapon ' 503 Folkish Moths 504 The First Great Mass Meeting 505 Fraternization Between Marxism and Center 507 Pfchner and Frick , 58 The Foundations of the Coming State 5IO The Victory of the First Great Demonstration 512 The Coming Rise 515 POSTER APPENDIX 517 CONTENTS xxvii Velum* II Chapter I VIEW OF LIFE AND PARTY 563 Bourgeois 'Program Committees' 564 From the Life of a 'People's Representative' 565 Marxism and Democratic Principle $68 View of Life Against View of Life 570 The Conception ' Folkish ' 573 From Religious Feeling to Apodictic Belief 575 From 'Folkish ' Feeling to Political Creed 576 From Creed to Community of Struggle 57^ Marxism Against Race and Personality 579 Folkish Attitude Towards Race and Personality 579 The Challenge of the Free Play of Forces 581 Condensation in the Party 582 Crystallization of a Political Creed 583 Chapter II THB STATE 584 Three Reigning Conceptions of the State 585-587 False Notion of ' Germanization ' 588 Only Land Can Be Germanized 591 The State No End in Itself 592 Cultural Level Conditioned by Race 593 National Socialist Conception of the State 594 Viewpoints for Judging the State 596 Consequences of Our Racial Dismemberment 598 Mission of the German People 600 Task of the German State 6oi World History is Made by Minorities 603 The Bastard Must Succumb 604 Natural Process of Regeneration of the Race 605 Danger of Race-Mixing 606 xxviil CONTENTS 'Folkish ' State and Race Hygiene 608 Race-pure Border Colonies 6lO Call to German Youth 6ll The Bourgeoisie's Lack of Energy 6l2 Healthy Body Healthy Spirit 614 Educational Maxims of the ' Folkish ' State 615 The Value of Sports 616 Suggestive Force of Self -Confidence 618 Suggestive Force of United Action 618 Control Between School Age and Military Service Age 619 The Army as Final and Highest School 620 Character Formation 621 Education in Discretion 622 Cultivation of Will Power and Determination 623 Fostering Readiness for Responsibility 625 Principles of Scientific Schooling 626 No Overburdening of the Brain 626 Principles of Language Instruction 627 Principles of History Instruction 628 General Training Professional Training 630 Value of Humanistic Training 631 Current 'Patriotic* Education 632 Inspiring Force of Great Models 633 Awakening National Pride 633 Fear of Chauvinism is Impotence 636 Inculcation of a Racial Sense 636 Human Selection 637 Capability and Learning 638 Training Prodigies 640 State Selection of the Qualified 640 The Catholic Church's Link with the People 643 Appraisal of Work 645 Grading of Services 649 Ideal and Reality 650 CONTENTS mi* Chapter III SUBJECTS AND CITIZENS OF THE STATE .... 656 How One Becomes a Citizen Today 657 Citizens State Subjects Aliens 658 The State Citizen Master of the Reich 659 Chapter IV PERSONALITY AND THE CONCEPTION OF THE NATIONAL STATE 660 Construction on Aristocratic Principle 66 1 Rise of Human Culture 662 Personality and Progress of Culture 663 Value of Personality 664 The Majority Principle 666 Marxism Denies Personality 666 Marxism is Uncreative 668 The Best State Constitution 669 Advisory Chambers Responsible Leaders 670 Towards the Future State 672 Chapter V VIEW OF LIFE AND ORGANIZATION 673 Struggle and Criticism 674 Views of Life are Intolerant 676 Parties Seek Compromises 676 Community on the Basis of New View of Life 677 Leadership and Following- 678 Necessity of Guiding Principles 680 Formulation of Guiding Principles 68 1 Stability of Program 682 Spirit, Not Letter, Decides 683 National Socialism and Folkish Idea 684 THe Sham Folkish 685 xxx CONTENTS Chapter VI THE STRUGGLE OF THE EARLY DAYS THE SIGNIFI- CANCE OF THE SPOKEN WORD 695 Struggle Against Poisoning Propaganda 696 Against the Current 699 Politics at Far Sight 700 Oratorical Experiences 701 Enlightenment on the Peace Treaties 702 Speech More Effective than Writing 704 Psychological Aspects of Oratory 704 Oratory and Writing in the Service of Agitation 705 Psychological Conditions of Oratorical Effectiveness 709 Orators and Revolution 711 Printed Speech Disappoints 712 Bethmann and Lloyd George as Orators 712 Necessity of Mass Meetings 715 Significance of Community Feeling 715 Orators Who Break Down 716 Chapter VII THE STRUGGLE WITH THE RED FRONT . . . 717 Bourgeois ' Mass Meetings ' 718 National Socialist Mass Meetings 720 The Equivocal Red Posters 721 Vacillating Tactics of the Marxists 723 Opponents Make Us Known 723 Law-Breaking Police Procedure 724 Psychologically Correct Rally Management 725 Marxist Rally Technique 726 Bourgeois Rally Technique 727 National Socialist Order Troops 729 Significance of the Unified Symbol 730 Old and New Black-Red-Gold 731 Old and New Reich Flag 733 The National Socialist Flag 734 CONTENTS xxxi Interpretation of the National Socialist Symbol 736 The First Circus Rally 739 Rally After Rally 743 Futile Attempts at Disruption 746 The Meeting Continues 749 Chapter VIII THE STRONG MAN is MIGHTIEST ALONE . . . 750 Right of Priority in a Movement 751 The Struggle for Leadership 753 Austria and Prussia 754 Causes of Folkish Dismemberment 757 The Formation of Joint Efforts 758 The Essence of Joint Efforts 760 The Collapse of Joint Efforts 762 Chapter IX FUNDAMENTAL THOUGHTS ON THE MEANING AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STORM TROOPS 764 The Three Pillars of Authority 764 The Three Classes of Folk Bodies 766 The Sacrifice of the Best 767 The Hyperfecundity of the Bad 768 Resulting Disorganization 770 Founding of the Free Corps 771 Misplaced Leniency to Deserters 773 Deserters and Revolution 773 Fear of the Front Soldiers 775 Collaboration of Left Parties 776 The Capture of the Bourgeois 777 Capitulation of the Bourgeois 779 Why Did the Revolution Succeed? 780 Passivity of the State Guardians 781 Capitulation to Marxism 782 xx*K CONTENTS Breakdown of the National Parties 783 Without an Idea, No Force for Struggle 784 Advocacy of the Folkish Idea 786 Need for Guard Troops 787 Guarding the Nation, Not the State 790 Self-Protection, Not 'Defense League' 791 Why No Defense Leagues 792 Impossibility of Proper Drilling 793 Counter-Tendency of the State 795 The Sacrifice of Our Army 796 No Secret Organizations 797 The Danger of Secret Organizations 798 Shall Traitors be ' Eliminated ' ? 800 Sport Training of the S.A. 801 Designation and Publicity 802 First Parade in Munich 805 The March to Coburg 806 The Reception in Coburg 806 Red Demonstration 807 The S.A. Stands the Test as a Vital Organization of Struggle 809 The End of 1923 810 Chapter X FEDERALISM AS A MASK 816 War Associations and Anti-Prussian Sentiment 817 Anti- Prussian Agitation as a Diversion Maneuver 818 Kurt Eisner, 'Bavarian Particularist ' 819 My Struggle Against the Anti-Prussian Incitement 820 1 Federative Activity ' 822 Jewish Incitement Tactic 823 Anti-Semitism and Defense 824 The Jew Creates Confessional Conflict 825 The Curse of Religious Wars 826 Necessity for Agreement 827 Struggle Against the 'Center 1 828 CONTENTS xxxiii Federal or Unified State? 830 The Gentian Federal State 831 Bismarck's Creation 832 The Revolution and the Federal State 833 The Policy of Redemption and the Forfeiture of the Federal States' Sovereignty 834 Results of Reich Foreign Policy 836 National State or Slave Colony 837 Unifying Tendencies 838 Abuse of Centralization 839 Oppression of the Individual States 841 Centralization Benefits Party Coffers 841 Reich State Sovereignty 842 Cultural Tasks of the Provinces 842 Unification of the Army 843 One People One State 845 Chapter XI PROPAGANDA AND ORGANIZATION 846 Theoretician Organizer Agitator 847 Followers and Members 849 Propaganda and Organization 850 The Power for Struggle of Activistic Selection 853 Limitation on Membership Enrolment 854 Frightening the Half-Hearted 856 Reorganization of the Movement 857 Suspension of 'Parliamentarism* 858 Responsibility of the Chief 859 Principle of the Leader Idea 859 The Embryonic State of the Movement 860 Building the Movement 86l xxxhr CONTENTS Chapter XII THE TRADE-UNION QUESTION 868 Arc Trade Unions Necessary? 870 National Socialist Trade Unions? 871 Future Chambers of Economy 875 Corporation Chambers and Economic Parliament 876 No Dual Unions 877 First the Battle for the View of Life, Later the Libera- tion of the Individual 880 Better no National Socialist Trade Union than a Mis- carriage 882 Chapter XIII GERMAN POLICY OF ALLIANCE AFTER THE WAR . . 885 Reasons for the Breakdown 886 The Goal of Foreign Policy: Freedom for Tomorrow 888 Precondition for the Liberation of the Lost Regions 888 Strengthening of Continental Power 892 False Continental Policy Before the War 894 European Relations of Power 894 England and Germany 895 Shifting of the 4 Balance of Power' 896 England's War Aim Unachieved 898 The Hegemony of France 899 Political Aims of France and England 899 On the Possibilities of Alliances 900 Necessity of Community of Interests 901 Is Germany Capable of an Alliance? 903 The Will to Destruction of Jewish Finance 905 Jewish World Incitement Against Germany 906 Adaptation to the Mentalities of Nations 907 Two Possible Allies: England Italy 908 Hobnobbing with France 909 The South Tyrol Question 911 CONTENTS XKXV Frustration of German-Italian Agreement 915 Who Betrayed the South Tyrol 915 Not Armed Force, But the Politics of Alliance 917 Three Questions on the Politics of Alliance 918 The First Symptom of German Rebirth 919 Neglected Exploiting of the Versailles Treaty 920 4 Lord Bless Our Struggle ' 921 Inversion of the Anti-German Psychosis 922 The Will to Liberation Struggle 923 Concentration on One Opponent 925 Settling Accounts with One's Own Traitors 925 War of the Nations Against Jewry 927 England and Jewry 928 Japan and Jewry 929 Jewry, the World Enemy 931 Chapter XIV EASTERN ORIENTATION OR EASTERN POLICY . . 933 Prejudice in Questions of Foreign Policy 934 Significance of the State's Territorial Extensiveness 935 Area and World Power 936 French and German Colonial Policy 937 Out of the Constricted Existence! 939 The Strength of a State is Relative 941 The Fruits of a Millennium of German Policy 941 No Hurrah-Patriotism! 943 The Call to the Old Borders 944 Foreign Poljpy Aim of the National Socialists 947 No Sentimentality in Foreign Policy 948 Germanic Elements in Russia 951 End of Jewish Domination in Russia? 952 Bismarck's Russian Policy 953 The 'League of Oppressed Nations' 954 Is England's Hold on India Shaking? 955 Is England's Hold on the East Shaking? 957 German Alliance with Russia? 957 xxxvi CONTENTS Germany-Russia Before the War 960 A Political Testament 963 Advantages of an Anglo-German-Italian Alliance 964 The Preconditions for an Eastern Policy 965 The National Socialists 966 Chapter XV EMERGENCY DEFENSE AS A RIGHT 968 Jewish Leadership of Foreign Policy 970 Seven Years to 1813 Seven Years to Locarno 971 Persecution of Unpleasant Prophets 972 France's Immovable War Aim 974 France's Immovable Political Aim 977 Settlement with France 978 The Occupation of the Ruhr District 979 Foreign and Domestic Political Results of the Ruhr Occupation 979 What Should Have Been Done After the Ruhr Oc- cupation? 981 The Neglected Accounting with Marxism 983 Not Weapons, but Will, Decides! 987 Cuno's Road 987 The 'United Front' 988 Passive Resistance 989 The Position of the National Socialists 990 November 1923 992 Our Dead as Monitors of Duty 993 * CONCLUSION 994 INDEX 995 Volume One AN ACCOUNTING This translation was prepared under the aus- pices of Dr. Alvin Johnson, of The New School for Social Research. The typography of the text of this book follows that of the first German edition. Both italics and bold-faced type are used wherever they occurred in the original. The more important portions of this book, omit- ted from the Dugdale Abridgment or condensed in that version, are indicated by a dagger at the beginning of such passages and by an arrow at the end. CHAPTER I AT HOME FODAY I consider it my good fortune that Fate de- 1 signated Braunau on the Inn as the place of my birth. For this small town is situated on the border between those two German States, the reunion of which seems, at least to us of the younger generation, a task to be furthered with every means our lives long. German-Austria must return to the great German mo- therland, and not because of economic considerations of any sort. No, no: even if from the economic point of view this union were unimportant, indeed, if it were harmful, it ought nevertheless to be brought about. Common blood be- longs in a common Reich. As long as the German nation is unable even to band together its own children in one com- mon State, it has no moral right to think of colonization as one of its political aims. Only when the boundaries of the Reich include even the last German, only when it is no longer possible to assure him of daily bread inside them, does there arise, out of the distress of the nation, the moral right to acquire foreign soil and territory. The sword is then the plow, and from the tears of war there grows the daily bread for generations to come. Therefore, this little town on the border appears to me the symbol of a great task. But in another respect also it looms up as a warning 4 MEIN KAMPF to our present time. More than a hundred years ago, this insignificant little place had the privilege of gaining an immortal place in German history at least by being the scene of a tragic misfortune that moved the entire nation. There, during the time of the deepest humiliation of our fatherland, Johannes Palm, citizen of Nurnberg, a middle- class bookdealer, die-hard 'nationalist, 1 an enemy of the The idealism of the Wars of Liberation, waged by Prussia against Napoleon, is reflected in the career of Johann Phillip Palm, Nurnberg book-seller, who in 1806 issued a work en- titled, Deutschland in seiner tiefsten Erniedrigung (Germany in the Hour of Its Deepest Humiliation). This was a diatribe against the Corsican. Palm was tried by a military tribunal, sentenced to death, and shot at Braunau on August 26, 1806. During the centenary year (1906) a play in honor of Palm was written by A. Ebenhoch, an Austrian author. It is possible that Hitler may have seen or read this drama. Leo Schlageter, a German artillery officer who served after the World War in the Free Corps with which General von der Goltz attempted to conserve part of what Germany had gained by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, was found guilty of sabotage by a French military tribunal during the Ruhr invasion of 1923. He had blown up a portion of the railway line between Dusseldorf and Duisburg, and had been caught in the act. The assertion that he was 'betrayed* to the French is without historical foundation. It was the policy of the German govern- ment to discountenance open military measures and to place its reliance upon so-called 'passive resistance.' Karl Severing, then Social Democratic Minister of the Interior in Prussia, was a zealous though cautious patriot whose firm defense of the democratic institutions of Weimar angered extremists of all kinds. He was thus a favorite Nazi target. The governments oi the Reich and of Prussia made every effort to save Schlageter. The Vatican intervened in his behalf, and it is generally sup- posed that the French authorities would have commuted the sentence had it not been for a sudden wave of opposition to AT HOME 5 French, was killed for the sake of the Germany he ardently loved even in the hour of its distress. He had obstinately refused to denounce his fellow offenders, or rather the chief offenders. Thus he acted like Leo Schlageter. But like him, he too was betrayed to France by a representative of his government. It was a director of the Augsburg police who earned that shoddy glory, thus setting an example for the new German authorities of Heir Severing's Reich, t In this little town on the river Inn, gilded by the light of German martyrdom, there lived, at the end of the eighties of the last century, my parents, Bavarian by blood, Aus- trian by nationality : the father a faithful civil servant, the Poincar6's policy in the Chamber. That induced the govern- ment to make a show of firmness. Schlageter, whose last words are said to have been, 'Germany must live,' was executed on May 26, 1923. Immediately he became a German national hero. His example more than anything else hallowed the tradition of the Free Corps in the popular mind and thus strengthened pro- militaristic sentiment. One of the first cultural activities of the Nazi regime was a tribute to Schlageter. Hitler's family background has been a subject for much re- search and speculation. The father, Alois Hitler (1837-1903), was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber; and it is generally assumed that the father was the man she married Johann Hiedler. Until he was forty, he bore the name of his mother, being known as Alois Schicklgruber. Then on January 8, 1877, he legally changed the name to Hitler, which had been that of his maternal grandmother. His third wife was Klara Poelzl (1860-1908), who on April 20, 1889, gave birth to Adolf Hitler. There may have been a brother or half-brother if reports current in Nazi circles are to be credited. At any rate, Hitler has a living sister and a half-sister. The first has lived in retirement, but the second a woman of considerable charm and ability is known to have exercised no little influence at times. 6 MEIN KAMPF mother devoting herself to the cares of the household and looking after her children with eternally the same loving kindness. I remember only little of this time, for a few years later my father had again to leave the little border town he had learned to like, and go down the Inn to take a new position at Passau, that is in Germany proper. But the lot of an Austrian customs official of those days frequently meant 'moving on.' Just a short time after- wards my father was transferred to Linz, and finally retired on a pension there. But this was not to mean * rest' for the old man. The son of a poor cottager, even in his childhood he had not been able to stay at home. Not yet thirteen years old, the little boy he then was bundled up his things and ran away from his homeland, the Waldviertel. Despite the dissuasion of 'experienced' inhabitants of the village he had gone to Vienna to learn a trade there. This was in the fifties of the last century. A bitter resolve it must have been to take to the road, into the unknown, with only three guilders for traveling money. But by the time the thirteen- year-old lad was seventeen, he had passed his apprentice's examination, but he had not yet found satisfaction. It was rather the opposite. The long time of hardship through which he then passed, of endless poverty and misery, strengthened his resolve to give up the trade after all in order to become something 'better.' If once the village pastor had seemed to the little boy the incarnation of all obtainable human success, now, in the big city which had so widened his perspective, the rank of civil servant became the ideal. With all the tenacity of one who had grown ' old ' through want and sorrow while still half a child, the sev- enteen-year-old youth clung to his decision . . . and became a civil servant. The goal was reached, I believe, after nearly twenty-three years. Now there had been realized the premise of the vow that the poor boy once had sworn, not to return to his dear native village before he had become something. AT HOME 7 Now the goal was reached, but nobody in the village remembered the little boy of long ago, and the village had become a stranger to him. When he retired at the age of fifty-six, he was unable to spend a single day in 'doing nothing.' He bought a farm near Lambach in Upper Austria which he worked himself, thus returning, after a long and active life, to the origin of his ancestors. It was probably at that time that my first ideals were formed. A lot of romping around out-of-doors, the long trip to school, and the companionship with unusually 'ro- bust 1 boys, which at times caused my mother much grief, made me anything but a stay-at-home. Though I did not brood over my future career at that time, I had decidedly no sympathy for the course my father's life had taken. I believe that even then my ability for making speeches was trained by the more or less stirring discussions with my comrades. I had become a little ringleader and at that time learned easily and did very well in school, but for the rest I was rather difficult to handle. Inasmuch as I received singing lessons in my spare time
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ADOLF HITLER MEIN KAMPF Complete and Unabridged FULLY ANNOTATED EDITORIAL SPONSORS John Chamberlain Sidney B. Fay John Gunther Carlton J. H. Hayes aham Mutton in Johnson iam L Langer Iter Millis ul de Roussy de Sales oige N. Shuster REYNAL A HITCHCOCK 1941 NEW COPYRIGHT, IQ39. BY HOUGBTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM COPYRIGHT, Ip2S, BY VERLAG FRZ. EHER NACHF. G.m.D.H. COPYRIGHT, Z927. BY VERLAG FRZ. EHER NACHF. G.m.b.H. This Edition is published by ar- rangement with Hough ton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts. NINETEENTH PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. PUBLISHERS' NOTE BOTH the international situation and certain pub- lishing exigencies have dictated the preparation of this book at a far higher rate of speed than we should have liked. We wished it editorially to be, and we believe it is, a fine, scholarly, genuinely definitive edition of an enormously important book. If small errors have crept in, and we think even those are few and far between, they are due solely to the pressure of time. We cannot possibly thank here by name all those who have assisted in the task. The work could not have been possible without the devoted help of our editorial commit- tee, and notably Dr. Alvin Johnson, who has been a tower of strength in many directions. To Mr. George N. Shuster, who has labored with unwearying effectiveness night and day for many weeks, our debt is incalculable. Mr. Helmut Ripperger, on whom a heavy burden has fallen, and various friends and helpers at the New School for Social Research have likewise given without stint of their time and energy to the translation. Mr. C. H. Hand, Jr., will not like to find himself thus singled out, but we cannot overlook the tribute we owe him for his constant effective aid. Two other special friends of the enterprise who have been of enormous help, but who by their own wish shall be name- less, we none the less wish here to thank anonymously. Finally, to Houghton MifHin Company we wish to extend our hearty salutations. We should never ask for more fair- minded or resourceful collaborators in a publishing enter- prise. E. R. C. N. H. INTRODUCTION THIS is an accurate translation of a book which is likely to remain the most important political tract of our time, and which is now for the first time avail- able in complete form to the American reader. Until now the only version of M ein Kampf in English has been a con- densation of the complete book, published in 1933, con- taining less than half of the total text. The Austrian and Czecho-Slovakian crises of last year, culminating for the moment in the pact of Munich, have awakened the American public as never before to the seriousness to the world and to themselves of the Nazi program, and consequently to the possible significance of every page of the book that can justly be regarded as the Nazi gospel. Here, then, in its entirety, for the American people to read and to judge for themselves, is the work which has sold in Germany by the millions, and which is probably the best written evidence of the character, the mind, and the spirit of Adolf Hitler and his 'government. There are undoubtedly passages of great importance which now appear in English for the first time. For exam- ple, Chapter V of the condensed version left out the whole of what Hitler describes as his wartime reflections on propaganda and on methods for fighting Marxism. We have marked at various points in the text the important new material. Furthermore, any abridgment must neces- sarily fail, in proportion to the degree of its condensa- tion, to give the full flavor of the author's mind. Even the repetitions have their significance in conveying a sense of the character behind them. Mein Kampf is, above all, a book of feeling. vlii INTRODUCTION All this is in no sense a condemnation of the abridgement prepared by E. T. S. Dugdale in England and published under the title My Battle, as in 1933 it seemed most un- likely that any large American public would care to read Mein Kampf as a whole, and for its time and purpose it was undoubtedly adequate. Since then the whole book has as- sumed a more urgent character. The translation here offered is from the first German edi- tion the two volumes respectively of 1925 and 1927, which are now quite difficult to obtain. Continuous refer- ence hks been made, however, to later editions, and any changes of significance have been noted. Such changes are not as extensive as popularly supposed. The reader must bear in mind that Hitler is no artist in literary expression, but a rough-and-ready political pam- phleteer often indifferent to grammar and syntax alike. Departures from normal German form have not been re- produced, since no purpose would be served thereby, but where the demands of a perfectly smooth English style might seem to conflict with exactness of meaning, the original German forms have been followed as literally as possible. We believe the translation cannot be successfully challenged. We turn to our decision to annotate the text. Mein Kampf is frequently a difficult book for the American reader to understand. Few Americans are, in the very nature of things, so aware of the German historical background that they can surmise without help what the author is discuss- ing. What, for example, was meant by 'interest slavery 1 ? And who was Leo Schlageter? In making annotations of this kind, we have tried to adhere to a middle course, as- suming some familiarity with Nazi history, but leaving very recondite information for scholars. Notes of this kind are based almost exclusively on German sources, and we be- Ifeve we can vouch for their accuracy and objectivity. INTRODUCTION 1 Then, too, Mein Kampf is a propagandistic essay by a violent partisan. As such it often warps historical truth and sometimes ignores it completely. We have, therefore, felt it our duty to accompany the text with factual information which constitutes an extensive critique of the original. No American would like to assume responsibility for giving the public a text which, if not tested in the light of diligent inquiry, might convey the impression that Hitler was writ- ing history rather than propaganda. It is more probable, however, that we shall have to face the opposite criticism that we have been too impartial, too objective, too little concerned with rebuttal. To this we should like to reply that truth, the accurate truth, is the only argument which in the long run prevails. One may talk a fact out of exist- ence for a time, but it somehow survives. We are prepared to rest our case as editors on our belief in that ultimate triumph. One point in particular may need emphasis. Large por- tions of Mrin Kampf are devoted to the question of race as a substructure on which to erect an anti-Semitic policy. We have not let these passages go unchallenged, but we have also not felt it necessary to include a discussion of race of our own invention. The greatest anthropologists of the twentieth century are agreed that 'race' is a practically meaningless word. All one can legitimately do, therefore, is to challenge statements of 'race history' as being fig- ments of the imagination, and to point out that they are at bottom more or less subtle ways of supporting still more ab- solute and violent forms of nationalism than even the nine- teenth century knew. In addition we have made specific objections to Hitler's anti-Semitic statements where they contradict known historical facts. A word now concerning the method adopted for the pre- sentation of the notes. As a rule we have put information relative to the sources and origins of National Socialism * INTRODUCTION into the first volume, reserving for the second volume the history of Hitler's rise to power and of German achievement since that time. Departures from this method have been made when a given point seemed explainable in no other way. This arrangement will enable the reader, should he so desire, to read the notes independently of the text itself. Naturally these notes are not designed to form a treatise on Hitlerism, but if they were read together with the books mentioned by name, they should provide a fairly adequate history of the Third Reich* Most of the notes are set in close proximity to the passage to which they refer. In a few instances, however, it seemed important to write at greater length, so that the material appears in the form of an appendix to the chapter in question. The separation be- tween text and commentary is clearly indicated, so that the reader will have no difficulty on that score. In conclusion, what should one expect to learn from Mein Kampf? Read with a clear eye, the book will show what manner of man Der Ftihrer is one who as a boy had nothing excepting a passionate belief that Germany must obtain a larger place in the sun with the help of the sword once wielded so efficiently by Prussian kings; who learned to define to his own satisfaction what groups wanted this kind of Germany, and what other groups were indifferent or opposed to that ideal ; who after the War gathered round him all those who refused to concede that defeat neces- sarily meant the end of German expansion; and who, finally, with their help, got control of the government and then set out to mobilize the whole nation for a new advance. Before the War he lived in Austria and felt that the Habsburgs, by making concessions to the Slavic groups in their empire, were putting the German group on a level with others and therefore lessening its willingness to dom- inate. Therefore, he wanted the German group to get rid of the Habsburgs and join forces with the greater Prussian INTRODUCTION id Germany. After the War he felt that the leaders of the Re- public, by seeking to bring about internal reconciliation and by making concessions to the Allies, were doing exactly what the old Habsburgs had done, excepting that this time it was not Austrian Germany but the holy of holies, Prussia itself, that was being weakened. To those who said that it was war which had sapped the substance of Germany, and that another war would end European civilization, he re- plied that it was only 'eternal peace' which destroyed peo- ples and that neither the individual nor society could escape Nature's decree that the fittest alone survive. Yet this simple philosophy is by no means the whole Hitler. He has added to it the moving force which, re- vealed both in his struggle for power and in his use of that power since 1933, is the most startling phenomenon of our time. Only the leaders of the Mohammedan, French, and Russian revolutions have aroused a comparable driving power, and at present it dominates Europe. The forces in opposition have lacked the clearness of plan, the unity of motive, the certainty of conviction, needed to make their cause prevail. The engines of industry now spin round in trepidation, and the engines of war are piled giddily in higher and higher pyramids. Already in Europe, the last are all that really count the others work to create an illusion and to help meet the staggering costs. There is no stopping them until there are in the world ideas or ideals which are stronger than that contained in Mein Kampf. It is our profound conviction that as soon as enough people have seen through this book, lived with it until the facts they behold are so startlingly vivid that all else is obscure by comparison, the tide will begin to turn. We have all of us the deepest regard for the German peo- ple. Some of us have given a good deal of time and energy to the study of just German demands and to the fostering xii INTRODUCTION of better understanding of the German tradition. None of us has abandoned the sincere belief that Germany is des- tined to be a great and cherished member of the family of peoples. So we have elected to set down without malice, yet with all the truth we can muster, the record as we see it. JOHN CHAMBERLAIN SIDNEY B. FAY JOHN GUNTHER CARLTON J. H. HAYES GRAHAM HUTTON ALVIN JOHNSON t WILLIAM L. LANGER WALTER MILLIS R. DE ROUSSY DE SALES GEORGE N. SHUSTER DEDICATION ON NOVEMBER 9, 1923, at 12.30 in the afternoon, in front of the Feldherrnhalle as well as in the courtyard of the former War Ministry, the following men, steadfast in their belief in the resurrection of their people, were killed : ALFARTH, Felix, businessman, b. July 5, 1901 BAURIEDL, Andreas, hatter, b. May 4, 1879 CASELLA, Theodor, bank employee, b. August 8, 1900 EHRLICH, Wilhelm, bank employee, b. August 19, 1894 FAUST, Martin, bank employee, b. January 27, 1901 HECHENBERGER, Anton, locksmith, b. September 28,; 1902 KOERNER, Oskar, businessman, b. January 4, 1875 KUHN, Karl, headwaiter, b. July 26, 1897 LAFORCE, Karl, student of Engineering, b. October 28, 1904 NEUBAUER, Kurt, valet, b. March 27, 1899 PAPE, Claus von, businessman, b. August 16, 1904 PFORDTEN, Theodor von der, County Court Council- lor, b. May 14, 1873 RICKMERS, Johann, retired Cavalry Captain, b. May 7, 1881 ScHEUBNER-RicHTER, Max Erwin von, Doctor of Engineering, b. January 9, 1884 STRANSKY, Lorenz Ritter von, Engineer, b. March 14, 1889 WOLF, Wilhelm, businessman, b. October 19, 1898 So-called national authorities denied these dead heroes a common grave. Therefore I dedicate to them, for common memory, the first volume of this work, as the blood witnesses of which they may continue to serve as a brilliant example for the followers of our movement. ADOLF HITLER LANDSBBRG ON THE LECH PRISON OF THE FORTRESS October 16, 1924 PREFACE ON APRIL I, 1924, because of the sentence handed down by the People's Court of Munich, I had to begin that day, serving my term in the fortress at Landsberg on the Lech. Thus, after years of uninterrupted work, I was afforded for the first time an opportunity to embark on a task insisted upon by many and felt to be serviceable to the movement by myself. Therefore, I resolved not only to set forth, in two volumes, the object of our movement, but also to draw a picture of its development. From this more can be learned than from any purely doctrinary treatise. That also gave me the opportunity to describe my own development, as far as this is necessary for the understand- ing of the first as well as the second volume, and which may serve to destroy the evil legends created about my person by the Jewish press. With this work I do not address myself to strangers, but to those adherents of the movement who belong to it with their hearts and whose reason now seeks a more intimate enlightenment. I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken than by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers. Nevertheless, the basic elements of a doctrine must be set down in permanent form in order that it may be repre- sented in the same way and in unity. In this connection these two volumes should serve as building stones which I add to our common work. THE AUTHOR LANDSBERG ON THE LECH PRISON OF THB FORTRESS CONTENTS Volume I PUBLISHERS' NOTE v INTRODUCTION vii DEDICATION xiii PREFACE xv Chapter I AT HOME 3 The Young Ringleader 7 Enthusiasm for War 8 Drawing Talent IO Never State Official 12 But Painter 13 The Young Nationalist 15 The German Ostmark 15 The Fight for the German Nationality 16 History Lessons 1 8 History Favorite Subject 2O The Habsburgs' Policy of Slavization 21 The Young Wagnerian 23 Father's Death ' 24 Mother's Passing Away 25 Chapter II YEARS OF STUDY AND SUFFERING IN VIENNA ... 26 An Architect's Ability 27 Five Years of Misery 29 Th Genius of Youth 30 Unsocial Vienna 31 The Contrasts 32 The Unskilled Worker 34 xviil CONTENTS The Uncertainty of Making a Living 35 The Worker's Fate 36 The Perpetual Mirage of Hunger 37 Unfortunate Victims of Bad Social Conditions 37 The Nature of Social Activity 39 The Lack of ' National Pride ' 41 The Rats of Political Poisoning 42 Martyrdom of the Worker's Child 43 The Presupposition for - Nationalization ' 44 Arduous Study 44 The Art of Reading 46-49 Social Democracy 50 First Encounter with Social Democrats 5I~53 The Red Terror 53 The Social Democrat Press 54 The Psyche of the Masses 56 Tactics of Marxism 58 The Victims of the Red Tempters 59 The Sins of the Bourgeoisie 59 The Necessity of Union Activity 60 The Struggle for Power 62 Politization of the Unions 63 The Threatening Thundercloud 64 The Key to Social Democracy 66 The Jewish Question 66 The So-called World Press 68 Criticism of Kaiser Wilhelm II 70 The Greatest German Mayor 72 Is This Also a Jew? 73 The Zionists 74 The Spiritual Pestilence of Jewry 76 The Cunning of the 'World Press' 77 The Manager of Vice 78 The Jew as Leader of Social Democracy 78-~79 Jewish Dialectics 8 1 The Cosmopolite Changes into a Fanatical Anti- Semite 83 Marxism and Nature 84 CONTENTS xlx Chapter III GENERAL POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS FROM MY TIME IN VIENNA 85 The Politician 86 Political Thinking 87 Vienna's Last Rise 88 Germanity in Austria 89 Centrifugal Forces 96 The Tragic Guilt of the Habsburge 93 The Revolution of 1848 94 The Historical Liquidation of the Danube Monarchy 94 Parliamentarianism 95 The Soil of the Marxist World Plague 99 Lack of Responsibility IOO The Leader and the Masses IO2 The Incompetents and the Babblers IO2 Hiding Behind the Majority 103 Lined up in a Queue 105 The Parliamentarian Profiteers 106 4 Public Opinion' 108 The Machine for Educating the Masses 108 The Cuttlefish I IO The Will of the Majority 1 12 The Intellectual Demi-monde 1 14 The Gist of the Matter 115 Germanic Democracy 1 1 6 The Collapsing Dual Monarchy 119 The Pan -German Movement I2O The Dreams of the Forefathers 121 The Rebellion of the German- Austrians 121 Human Rights Breaks State Rights 123 The Merit of the Pan-Germans in Austria 124 Schoenerer and Lueger 125-129 Pacifism of the German Bourgeoisie 130 The Fight Against Parliamentarism 132 Parliament and Peoples' Assembly 133 'Parliamentarians' Instead of Leaders 135 xx CONTENTS The Magic of the Word 136 The Power of Speech 137 Mistakes of the Pan-German Movement 138 Religion and Politics 139 The Los-von-Rom Movement 140-152 Concentration 152 The Way of the Christian Social Party 153 A Splash of Baptismal Water 154 The Christian -Social Sham Anti-Semitism 156 Pan-German and Christian-Social 158 Rising Aversion Against the Habsburg State 159 The Old Mosaic Picture 1 60 The School of my Life 161-162 Chapter IV MUNICH 163 Germany's Wrong Policy of Alliance 164 The Jugglery of the Triple Alliance 165 The Bearers of the Idea of the Alliance 1 66 Insane Attitude 167 The Four Ways of German Politics 169-179 Pyramids Standing on their Points 180 With England Against Russia 183 The Dream of World-Peace 185 With Russia Against England 1 88 4 Peaceful Economic ' Conquest The Greatest Folly 1 88 The Englishman as Seen by the German Cartoonist 189 The Inner Weakness of the Triple Alliance 190 Ludendorff on the Weakness of the Triple Alliance 192 The Jewish-Socialist War-Agitators Against Russia 193 The Tempting Legacy 193 Warnings from German Conservatives 194 The Nature of the State 195-201 Symptoms of Decay 201 The Years of Destruction 2OI Prattling Quackery 203 CONTENTS xxi Chapter V THB WORLD WAR 204 The Impending Catastrophe 205 The Slav's Greatest Friend is Murdered 206 Austria's Ultimatum 206 The German Nation's Existence or Non-existence 207 The Meaning of the Struggle for Freedom 210 Joining a Bavarian Regiment 212 The Baptism of Fire 213 A Monument to Immortality 216 The Parliamentarian Prattlers 216 Drops of Wormwood in the General Enthusiasm 217 Misunderstood Marxism 2l8 What Was to be Done Now? 220 The Use of Force 221 Perseverance 222 The Attack Against the View of Life 223 The Same Rubbish 224 The Great Gap 225 Chapter VI WAR PROPAGANDA 227 Propaganda a Means 228 The Purpose of Propaganda 229 Propaganda Only for the Masses 230 The Task of Propaganda 231-232 The Psychology of Propaganda 233 The Consequence of Half Measures 236 German Mania of Objectivity 237 Pacifistic Dishwater 238 Propaganda for the Masses 239 The Enemy's Propaganda 240 CONTENTS Chapter VII THE REVOLUTION 243 The Enemy's First Leaflets 245 Lamenting Letters from Home 246 The Poison on the Front 246 Wounded 247 Boasting of One's Own Cowardice 248 The Duty-Shirkers 249 The Most Ingenious Trick of the Jew 252 The Ammunition Strike The Greatest Villainy 253 Russia's Collapse 256-257 The 'German ' Revolution Awaited Its Entry 258 The Result of the Ammunition Strike 258 The Front and the Political Rascals 260 Increase of the Decay 262 The Younger Reinforcements Fail 264 Poisoned by Mustard Gas 264 'Republic' 266 In Vain all the Sacrifices 267 Wretched and Miserable Criminals! 268 Scoundrels Are Without Honor 269 Chapter VIII BEGINNING OF MY POLITICAL ACTIVITY . . . .277 Social Revolutionary Party 280-281 Gottfried Feder 282 The Task of the Program-Maker 283 Program-Maker and Politician 284 The Marathon Runners of History 286 Breaking of the Tyranny of Interest 287 The ' Instruction Officer ' 289-290 CONTENTS xxlii Chapter IX THB 'GERMAN WORKERS' PARTY' 291 'My Political Awakening* 296 The Board Meeting in the 'Alte Rosenbad 9 297-298 The So-called ' Intelligentsia ' 300 The Seventh Member 301 Chapter X THE CAUSES OF THE COLLAPSE 302 Premonitory Symptoms of Collapse 3O3~~34 The Great Lie 306 The Culprits of the Collapse 307 Do Nations Perish by Lost Wars? 308 Among the Germans Every Third Man a Traitor 311 The Great Masters of Lying 313 Diseases of National Bodies 314 The Signs of Decay 315 The Idol of Mammon 316 Labor as the Object of Speculation 319 Half Measures One of the Most Evil Symptoms of Decay 322 The Gravediggers of the Monarchy 323 The Meaning of the Monarchy 324 The Cowards of 1918 326 Cowardice Towards Responsibility 327 Three Groups of Readers 328 The Pretended 'Freedom of the Press* 330 Mass Poisoning of the Nation 330 Tactics of the Jewish Press 331 The Result of Our Semi- Education 334 The ' Decent ' Press 335 Syphilis 336 The Miserable Products of Financial Expediency 337 The ' Defining of Attitude ' 338 CONTENTS The Sin Against the Blood and the Degradation of the Race 339 The Task of the Nation 341 Prostitution A Disgrace to Mankind 342 Marriage Not an End in Itself 343 Education of Youth 345~346 Premature and Prematurely Old 348 One of the Most Colossal Tasks 349 The 'Protective Paragraph* 350 The Energy for the Fight for Health 351 The Bolshevism of Art 352 The Decay of the Theater 355 The Tainting of the Great Past 356 Meaning and Purpose of Revolutions 358 Intellectual Preparation for Political Bolshevism 359 'Inner Experience* 360 'Human Settlements' 360 Monuments of the Community 362 Department Store and Hotel Characteristic Ex- pression of Culture 363 The Religious Situation 364 Organic State Laws and Dogmas 366 Political Abuse of Religion 367 Without Political Aims 368 The Failure of Parliamentarism 369 Half-hearted Solutions 370 The Lie of the German ' Militarism ' 374 The 'Idea of Risk' 376 The Parliamentarian Head, the Misfortune of the Navy 377 Villains, Scoundrels, Rascals, and Criminals 378 The German Advantages 380 Parade and Public Kitchen 381 The Stability of the State Authority 382 The Greatest Factor of Value The Army 383 The Greatest School of the German Nation 384 The Incomparable Body of Officials 386 The State Authority 387 The Ultimate Cause of the Collapse 388 CONTENTS xxv Chapter XI NATION AND RACE 389 The Race 390-391 The Result of All Race-crossing 392 Man and Idea 394 Race and Culture 396 Life is a Struggle 397 Founders of Culture 398 The Mirror of the Past 400 The Ingenious Race 402 The Aryan is the Bearer of Cultural Development 404 The Loss of the Purity of the Blood 406 The Aryan's Will to Sacrifice Himself 407 Purest Idealism Deepest Knowledge 41 1 The Aryan and the Jew 412 The 'Clever' Jew 412 Jewry's Instinct of Self-Preservation 414 Judaism's Sham Culture 416 The Jewish Ape 417 The Parasite 419 The First Great Lie 421 The Jewish Religion 422 Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion 423 The Development of Judaism 425 The Final Goal of Judaism 435 The ' Factory Worker ' 436 Employer and Employee 438 The Tactics of Judaism 440 The Nucleus of the 'Marxist* View of Life 441 The Organization of the Marxist World Doctrine 443 The Central Organization of International World Cheating 447 Dictatorship of the Proletariat 449 The Great, Final Revolution 450 Bastardized Nations 452 The Sham Prosperity of the Old Reich 453 A Germanic State of the German Nation 457 xx* CONTENTS Chapter XII THE FIRST PERIOD IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NA- TIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS' PARTY 456 A People Tom in Two Parts 457 The Lacking Will for Self -Preservation 459 The Winning of the Broad Masses 461 The Weak Momentum 462 The Best Property of the Nation 463 The Nationalization of the Masses 464 The Demands for This 465 The Smashing of Parliamentarianism 479 The Ingenious Idea 481 The Organization of the National Socialist Movement 482 Fanaticism 486 The Honorary Scar 488 Personality Cannot be Substituted 488 The Eternal Hands 489 The Speech Evening 490 The First Meeting 491 The First Success 492 Fight Against the Red Terror 494 The Second Meeting 495 The Shaping of the Young Movement 496 German Folkish Wandering Scholars 498 Folkish Comedians 499 'Folkish' 501 Spiritual Marches Against Berlin 502 The ' Spiritual Weapon ' 503 Folkish Moths 504 The First Great Mass Meeting 505 Fraternization Between Marxism and Center 507 Pfchner and Frick , 58 The Foundations of the Coming State 5IO The Victory of the First Great Demonstration 512 The Coming Rise 515 POSTER APPENDIX 517 CONTENTS xxvii Velum* II Chapter I VIEW OF LIFE AND PARTY 563 Bourgeois 'Program Committees' 564 From the Life of a 'People's Representative' 565 Marxism and Democratic Principle $68 View of Life Against View of Life 570 The Conception ' Folkish ' 573 From Religious Feeling to Apodictic Belief 575 From 'Folkish ' Feeling to Political Creed 576 From Creed to Community of Struggle 57^ Marxism Against Race and Personality 579 Folkish Attitude Towards Race and Personality 579 The Challenge of the Free Play of Forces 581 Condensation in the Party 582 Crystallization of a Political Creed 583 Chapter II THB STATE 584 Three Reigning Conceptions of the State 585-587 False Notion of ' Germanization ' 588 Only Land Can Be Germanized 591 The State No End in Itself 592 Cultural Level Conditioned by Race 593 National Socialist Conception of the State 594 Viewpoints for Judging the State 596 Consequences of Our Racial Dismemberment 598 Mission of the German People 600 Task of the German State 6oi World History is Made by Minorities 603 The Bastard Must Succumb 604 Natural Process of Regeneration of the Race 605 Danger of Race-Mixing 606 xxviil CONTENTS 'Folkish ' State and Race Hygiene 608 Race-pure Border Colonies 6lO Call to German Youth 6ll The Bourgeoisie's Lack of Energy 6l2 Healthy Body Healthy Spirit 614 Educational Maxims of the ' Folkish ' State 615 The Value of Sports 616 Suggestive Force of Self -Confidence 618 Suggestive Force of United Action 618 Control Between School Age and Military Service Age 619 The Army as Final and Highest School 620 Character Formation 621 Education in Discretion 622 Cultivation of Will Power and Determination 623 Fostering Readiness for Responsibility 625 Principles of Scientific Schooling 626 No Overburdening of the Brain 626 Principles of Language Instruction 627 Principles of History Instruction 628 General Training Professional Training 630 Value of Humanistic Training 631 Current 'Patriotic* Education 632 Inspiring Force of Great Models 633 Awakening National Pride 633 Fear of Chauvinism is Impotence 636 Inculcation of a Racial Sense 636 Human Selection 637 Capability and Learning 638 Training Prodigies 640 State Selection of the Qualified 640 The Catholic Church's Link with the People 643 Appraisal of Work 645 Grading of Services 649 Ideal and Reality 650 CONTENTS mi* Chapter III SUBJECTS AND CITIZENS OF THE STATE .... 656 How One Becomes a Citizen Today 657 Citizens State Subjects Aliens 658 The State Citizen Master of the Reich 659 Chapter IV PERSONALITY AND THE CONCEPTION OF THE NATIONAL STATE 660 Construction on Aristocratic Principle 66 1 Rise of Human Culture 662 Personality and Progress of Culture 663 Value of Personality 664 The Majority Principle 666 Marxism Denies Personality 666 Marxism is Uncreative 668 The Best State Constitution 669 Advisory Chambers Responsible Leaders 670 Towards the Future State 672 Chapter V VIEW OF LIFE AND ORGANIZATION 673 Struggle and Criticism 674 Views of Life are Intolerant 676 Parties Seek Compromises 676 Community on the Basis of New View of Life 677 Leadership and Following- 678 Necessity of Guiding Principles 680 Formulation of Guiding Principles 68 1 Stability of Program 682 Spirit, Not Letter, Decides 683 National Socialism and Folkish Idea 684 THe Sham Folkish 685 xxx CONTENTS Chapter VI THE STRUGGLE OF THE EARLY DAYS THE SIGNIFI- CANCE OF THE SPOKEN WORD 695 Struggle Against Poisoning Propaganda 696 Against the Current 699 Politics at Far Sight 700 Oratorical Experiences 701 Enlightenment on the Peace Treaties 702 Speech More Effective than Writing 704 Psychological Aspects of Oratory 704 Oratory and Writing in the Service of Agitation 705 Psychological Conditions of Oratorical Effectiveness 709 Orators and Revolution 711 Printed Speech Disappoints 712 Bethmann and Lloyd George as Orators 712 Necessity of Mass Meetings 715 Significance of Community Feeling 715 Orators Who Break Down 716 Chapter VII THE STRUGGLE WITH THE RED FRONT . . . 717 Bourgeois ' Mass Meetings ' 718 National Socialist Mass Meetings 720 The Equivocal Red Posters 721 Vacillating Tactics of the Marxists 723 Opponents Make Us Known 723 Law-Breaking Police Procedure 724 Psychologically Correct Rally Management 725 Marxist Rally Technique 726 Bourgeois Rally Technique 727 National Socialist Order Troops 729 Significance of the Unified Symbol 730 Old and New Black-Red-Gold 731 Old and New Reich Flag 733 The National Socialist Flag 734 CONTENTS xxxi Interpretation of the National Socialist Symbol 736 The First Circus Rally 739 Rally After Rally 743 Futile Attempts at Disruption 746 The Meeting Continues 749 Chapter VIII THE STRONG MAN is MIGHTIEST ALONE . . . 750 Right of Priority in a Movement 751 The Struggle for Leadership 753 Austria and Prussia 754 Causes of Folkish Dismemberment 757 The Formation of Joint Efforts 758 The Essence of Joint Efforts 760 The Collapse of Joint Efforts 762 Chapter IX FUNDAMENTAL THOUGHTS ON THE MEANING AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STORM TROOPS 764 The Three Pillars of Authority 764 The Three Classes of Folk Bodies 766 The Sacrifice of the Best 767 The Hyperfecundity of the Bad 768 Resulting Disorganization 770 Founding of the Free Corps 771 Misplaced Leniency to Deserters 773 Deserters and Revolution 773 Fear of the Front Soldiers 775 Collaboration of Left Parties 776 The Capture of the Bourgeois 777 Capitulation of the Bourgeois 779 Why Did the Revolution Succeed? 780 Passivity of the State Guardians 781 Capitulation to Marxism 782 xx*K CONTENTS Breakdown of the National Parties 783 Without an Idea, No Force for Struggle 784 Advocacy of the Folkish Idea 786 Need for Guard Troops 787 Guarding the Nation, Not the State 790 Self-Protection, Not 'Defense League' 791 Why No Defense Leagues 792 Impossibility of Proper Drilling 793 Counter-Tendency of the State 795 The Sacrifice of Our Army 796 No Secret Organizations 797 The Danger of Secret Organizations 798 Shall Traitors be ' Eliminated ' ? 800 Sport Training of the S.A. 801 Designation and Publicity 802 First Parade in Munich 805 The March to Coburg 806 The Reception in Coburg 806 Red Demonstration 807 The S.A. Stands the Test as a Vital Organization of Struggle 809 The End of 1923 810 Chapter X FEDERALISM AS A MASK 816 War Associations and Anti-Prussian Sentiment 817 Anti- Prussian Agitation as a Diversion Maneuver 818 Kurt Eisner, 'Bavarian Particularist ' 819 My Struggle Against the Anti-Prussian Incitement 820 1 Federative Activity ' 822 Jewish Incitement Tactic 823 Anti-Semitism and Defense 824 The Jew Creates Confessional Conflict 825 The Curse of Religious Wars 826 Necessity for Agreement 827 Struggle Against the 'Center 1 828 CONTENTS xxxiii Federal or Unified State? 830 The Gentian Federal State 831 Bismarck's Creation 832 The Revolution and the Federal State 833 The Policy of Redemption and the Forfeiture of the Federal States' Sovereignty 834 Results of Reich Foreign Policy 836 National State or Slave Colony 837 Unifying Tendencies 838 Abuse of Centralization 839 Oppression of the Individual States 841 Centralization Benefits Party Coffers 841 Reich State Sovereignty 842 Cultural Tasks of the Provinces 842 Unification of the Army 843 One People One State 845 Chapter XI PROPAGANDA AND ORGANIZATION 846 Theoretician Organizer Agitator 847 Followers and Members 849 Propaganda and Organization 850 The Power for Struggle of Activistic Selection 853 Limitation on Membership Enrolment 854 Frightening the Half-Hearted 856 Reorganization of the Movement 857 Suspension of 'Parliamentarism* 858 Responsibility of the Chief 859 Principle of the Leader Idea 859 The Embryonic State of the Movement 860 Building the Movement 86l xxxhr CONTENTS Chapter XII THE TRADE-UNION QUESTION 868 Arc Trade Unions Necessary? 870 National Socialist Trade Unions? 871 Future Chambers of Economy 875 Corporation Chambers and Economic Parliament 876 No Dual Unions 877 First the Battle for the View of Life, Later the Libera- tion of the Individual 880 Better no National Socialist Trade Union than a Mis- carriage 882 Chapter XIII GERMAN POLICY OF ALLIANCE AFTER THE WAR . . 885 Reasons for the Breakdown 886 The Goal of Foreign Policy: Freedom for Tomorrow 888 Precondition for the Liberation of the Lost Regions 888 Strengthening of Continental Power 892 False Continental Policy Before the War 894 European Relations of Power 894 England and Germany 895 Shifting of the 4 Balance of Power' 896 England's War Aim Unachieved 898 The Hegemony of France 899 Political Aims of France and England 899 On the Possibilities of Alliances 900 Necessity of Community of Interests 901 Is Germany Capable of an Alliance? 903 The Will to Destruction of Jewish Finance 905 Jewish World Incitement Against Germany 906 Adaptation to the Mentalities of Nations 907 Two Possible Allies: England Italy 908 Hobnobbing with France 909 The South Tyrol Question 911 CONTENTS XKXV Frustration of German-Italian Agreement 915 Who Betrayed the South Tyrol 915 Not Armed Force, But the Politics of Alliance 917 Three Questions on the Politics of Alliance 918 The First Symptom of German Rebirth 919 Neglected Exploiting of the Versailles Treaty 920 4 Lord Bless Our Struggle ' 921 Inversion of the Anti-German Psychosis 922 The Will to Liberation Struggle 923 Concentration on One Opponent 925 Settling Accounts with One's Own Traitors 925 War of the Nations Against Jewry 927 England and Jewry 928 Japan and Jewry 929 Jewry, the World Enemy 931 Chapter XIV EASTERN ORIENTATION OR EASTERN POLICY . . 933 Prejudice in Questions of Foreign Policy 934 Significance of the State's Territorial Extensiveness 935 Area and World Power 936 French and German Colonial Policy 937 Out of the Constricted Existence! 939 The Strength of a State is Relative 941 The Fruits of a Millennium of German Policy 941 No Hurrah-Patriotism! 943 The Call to the Old Borders 944 Foreign Poljpy Aim of the National Socialists 947 No Sentimentality in Foreign Policy 948 Germanic Elements in Russia 951 End of Jewish Domination in Russia? 952 Bismarck's Russian Policy 953 The 'League of Oppressed Nations' 954 Is England's Hold on India Shaking? 955 Is England's Hold on the East Shaking? 957 German Alliance with Russia? 957 xxxvi CONTENTS Germany-Russia Before the War 960 A Political Testament 963 Advantages of an Anglo-German-Italian Alliance 964 The Preconditions for an Eastern Policy 965 The National Socialists 966 Chapter XV EMERGENCY DEFENSE AS A RIGHT 968 Jewish Leadership of Foreign Policy 970 Seven Years to 1813 Seven Years to Locarno 971 Persecution of Unpleasant Prophets 972 France's Immovable War Aim 974 France's Immovable Political Aim 977 Settlement with France 978 The Occupation of the Ruhr District 979 Foreign and Domestic Political Results of the Ruhr Occupation 979 What Should Have Been Done After the Ruhr Oc- cupation? 981 The Neglected Accounting with Marxism 983 Not Weapons, but Will, Decides! 987 Cuno's Road 987 The 'United Front' 988 Passive Resistance 989 The Position of the National Socialists 990 November 1923 992 Our Dead as Monitors of Duty 993 * CONCLUSION 994 INDEX 995 Volume One AN ACCOUNTING This translation was prepared under the aus- pices of Dr. Alvin Johnson, of The New School for Social Research. The typography of the text of this book follows that of the first German edition. Both italics and bold-faced type are used wherever they occurred in the original. The more important portions of this book, omit- ted from the Dugdale Abridgment or condensed in that version, are indicated by a dagger at the beginning of such passages and by an arrow at the end. CHAPTER I AT HOME FODAY I consider it my good fortune that Fate de- 1 signated Braunau on the Inn as the place of my birth. For this small town is situated on the border between those two German States, the reunion of which seems, at least to us of the younger generation, a task to be furthered with every means our lives long. German-Austria must return to the great German mo- therland, and not because of economic considerations of any sort. No, no: even if from the economic point of view this union were unimportant, indeed, if it were harmful, it ought nevertheless to be brought about. Common blood be- longs in a common Reich. As long as the German nation is unable even to band together its own children in one com- mon State, it has no moral right to think of colonization as one of its political aims. Only when the boundaries of the Reich include even the last German, only when it is no longer possible to assure him of daily bread inside them, does there arise, out of the distress of the nation, the moral right to acquire foreign soil and territory. The sword is then the plow, and from the tears of war there grows the daily bread for generations to come. Therefore, this little town on the border appears to me the symbol of a great task. But in another respect also it looms up as a warning 4 MEIN KAMPF to our present time. More than a hundred years ago, this insignificant little place had the privilege of gaining an immortal place in German history at least by being the scene of a tragic misfortune that moved the entire nation. There, during the time of the deepest humiliation of our fatherland, Johannes Palm, citizen of Nurnberg, a middle- class bookdealer, die-hard 'nationalist, 1 an enemy of the The idealism of the Wars of Liberation, waged by Prussia against Napoleon, is reflected in the career of Johann Phillip Palm, Nurnberg book-seller, who in 1806 issued a work en- titled, Deutschland in seiner tiefsten Erniedrigung (Germany in the Hour of Its Deepest Humiliation). This was a diatribe against the Corsican. Palm was tried by a military tribunal, sentenced to death, and shot at Braunau on August 26, 1806. During the centenary year (1906) a play in honor of Palm was written by A. Ebenhoch, an Austrian author. It is possible that Hitler may have seen or read this drama. Leo Schlageter, a German artillery officer who served after the World War in the Free Corps with which General von der Goltz attempted to conserve part of what Germany had gained by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, was found guilty of sabotage by a French military tribunal during the Ruhr invasion of 1923. He had blown up a portion of the railway line between Dusseldorf and Duisburg, and had been caught in the act. The assertion that he was 'betrayed* to the French is without historical foundation. It was the policy of the German govern- ment to discountenance open military measures and to place its reliance upon so-called 'passive resistance.' Karl Severing, then Social Democratic Minister of the Interior in Prussia, was a zealous though cautious patriot whose firm defense of the democratic institutions of Weimar angered extremists of all kinds. He was thus a favorite Nazi target. The governments oi the Reich and of Prussia made every effort to save Schlageter. The Vatican intervened in his behalf, and it is generally sup- posed that the French authorities would have commuted the sentence had it not been for a sudden wave of opposition to AT HOME 5 French, was killed for the sake of the Germany he ardently loved even in the hour of its distress. He had obstinately refused to denounce his fellow offenders, or rather the chief offenders. Thus he acted like Leo Schlageter. But like him, he too was betrayed to France by a representative of his government. It was a director of the Augsburg police who earned that shoddy glory, thus setting an example for the new German authorities of Heir Severing's Reich, t In this little town on the river Inn, gilded by the light of German martyrdom, there lived, at the end of the eighties of the last century, my parents, Bavarian by blood, Aus- trian by nationality : the father a faithful civil servant, the Poincar6's policy in the Chamber. That induced the govern- ment to make a show of firmness. Schlageter, whose last words are said to have been, 'Germany must live,' was executed on May 26, 1923. Immediately he became a German national hero. His example more than anything else hallowed the tradition of the Free Corps in the popular mind and thus strengthened pro- militaristic sentiment. One of the first cultural activities of the Nazi regime was a tribute to Schlageter. Hitler's family background has been a subject for much re- search and speculation. The father, Alois Hitler (1837-1903), was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber; and it is generally assumed that the father was the man she married Johann Hiedler. Until he was forty, he bore the name of his mother, being known as Alois Schicklgruber. Then on January 8, 1877, he legally changed the name to Hitler, which had been that of his maternal grandmother. His third wife was Klara Poelzl (1860-1908), who on April 20, 1889, gave birth to Adolf Hitler. There may have been a brother or half-brother if reports current in Nazi circles are to be credited. At any rate, Hitler has a living sister and a half-sister. The first has lived in retirement, but the second a woman of considerable charm and ability is known to have exercised no little influence at times. 6 MEIN KAMPF mother devoting herself to the cares of the household and looking after her children with eternally the same loving kindness. I remember only little of this time, for a few years later my father had again to leave the little border town he had learned to like, and go down the Inn to take a new position at Passau, that is in Germany proper. But the lot of an Austrian customs official of those days frequently meant 'moving on.' Just a short time after- wards my father was transferred to Linz, and finally retired on a pension there. But this was not to mean * rest' for the old man. The son of a poor cottager, even in his childhood he had not been able to stay at home. Not yet thirteen years old, the little boy he then was bundled up his things and ran away from his homeland, the Waldviertel. Despite the dissuasion of 'experienced' inhabitants of the village he had gone to Vienna to learn a trade there. This was in the fifties of the last century. A bitter resolve it must have been to take to the road, into the unknown, with only three guilders for traveling money. But by the time the thirteen- year-old lad was seventeen, he had passed his apprentice's examination, but he had not yet found satisfaction. It was rather the opposite. The long time of hardship through which he then passed, of endless poverty and misery, strengthened his resolve to give up the trade after all in order to become something 'better.' If once the village pastor had seemed to the little boy the incarnation of all obtainable human success, now, in the big city which had so widened his perspective, the rank of civil servant became the ideal. With all the tenacity of one who had grown ' old ' through want and sorrow while still half a child, the sev- enteen-year-old youth clung to his decision . . . and became a civil servant. The goal was reached, I believe, after nearly twenty-three years. Now there had been realized the premise of the vow that the poor boy once had sworn, not to return to his dear native village before he had become something. AT HOME 7 Now the goal was reached, but nobody in the village remembered the little boy of long ago, and the village had become a stranger to him. When he retired at the age of fifty-six, he was unable to spend a single day in 'doing nothing.' He bought a farm near Lambach in Upper Austria which he worked himself, thus returning, after a long and active life, to the origin of his ancestors. It was probably at that time that my first ideals were formed. A lot of romping around out-of-doors, the long trip to school, and the companionship with unusually 'ro- bust 1 boys, which at times caused my mother much grief, made me anything but a stay-at-home. Though I did not brood over my future career at that time, I had decidedly no sympathy for the course my father's life had taken. I believe that even then my ability for making speeches was trained by the more or less stirring discussions with my comrades. I had become a little ringleader and at that time learned easily and did very well in school, but for the rest I was rather difficult to handle. Inasmuch as I received singing lessons in my spare time


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FaceTheCitizen wrote:That's it. Tess wins. Pack up, everybody. It's over.


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ADOLF HITLER MEIN KAMPF Complete and Unabridged FULLY ANNOTATED EDITORIAL SPONSORS John Chamberlain Sidney B. Fay John Gunther Carlton J. H. Hayes aham Mutton in Johnson iam L Langer Iter Millis ul de Roussy de Sales oige N. Shuster REYNAL A HITCHCOCK 1941 NEW COPYRIGHT, IQ39. BY HOUGBTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM COPYRIGHT, Ip2S, BY VERLAG FRZ. EHER NACHF. G.m.D.H. COPYRIGHT, Z927. BY VERLAG FRZ. EHER NACHF. G.m.b.H. This Edition is published by ar- rangement with Hough ton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts. NINETEENTH PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. PUBLISHERS' NOTE BOTH the international situation and certain pub- lishing exigencies have dictated the preparation of this book at a far higher rate of speed than we should have liked. We wished it editorially to be, and we believe it is, a fine, scholarly, genuinely definitive edition of an enormously important book. If small errors have crept in, and we think even those are few and far between, they are due solely to the pressure of time. We cannot possibly thank here by name all those who have assisted in the task. The work could not have been possible without the devoted help of our editorial commit- tee, and notably Dr. Alvin Johnson, who has been a tower of strength in many directions. To Mr. George N. Shuster, who has labored with unwearying effectiveness night and day for many weeks, our debt is incalculable. Mr. Helmut Ripperger, on whom a heavy burden has fallen, and various friends and helpers at the New School for Social Research have likewise given without stint of their time and energy to the translation. Mr. C. H. Hand, Jr., will not like to find himself thus singled out, but we cannot overlook the tribute we owe him for his constant effective aid. Two other special friends of the enterprise who have been of enormous help, but who by their own wish shall be name- less, we none the less wish here to thank anonymously. Finally, to Houghton MifHin Company we wish to extend our hearty salutations. We should never ask for more fair- minded or resourceful collaborators in a publishing enter- prise. E. R. C. N. H. INTRODUCTION THIS is an accurate translation of a book which is likely to remain the most important political tract of our time, and which is now for the first time avail- able in complete form to the American reader. Until now the only version of M ein Kampf in English has been a con- densation of the complete book, published in 1933, con- taining less than half of the total text. The Austrian and Czecho-Slovakian crises of last year, culminating for the moment in the pact of Munich, have awakened the American public as never before to the seriousness to the world and to themselves of the Nazi program, and consequently to the possible significance of every page of the book that can justly be regarded as the Nazi gospel. Here, then, in its entirety, for the American people to read and to judge for themselves, is the work which has sold in Germany by the millions, and which is probably the best written evidence of the character, the mind, and the spirit of Adolf Hitler and his 'government. There are undoubtedly passages of great importance which now appear in English for the first time. For exam- ple, Chapter V of the condensed version left out the whole of what Hitler describes as his wartime reflections on propaganda and on methods for fighting Marxism. We have marked at various points in the text the important new material. Furthermore, any abridgment must neces- sarily fail, in proportion to the degree of its condensa- tion, to give the full flavor of the author's mind. Even the repetitions have their significance in conveying a sense of the character behind them. Mein Kampf is, above all, a book of feeling. vlii INTRODUCTION All this is in no sense a condemnation of the abridgement prepared by E. T. S. Dugdale in England and published under the title My Battle, as in 1933 it seemed most un- likely that any large American public would care to read Mein Kampf as a whole, and for its time and purpose it was undoubtedly adequate. Since then the whole book has as- sumed a more urgent character. The translation here offered is from the first German edi- tion the two volumes respectively of 1925 and 1927, which are now quite difficult to obtain. Continuous refer- ence hks been made, however, to later editions, and any changes of significance have been noted. Such changes are not as extensive as popularly supposed. The reader must bear in mind that Hitler is no artist in literary expression, but a rough-and-ready political pam- phleteer often indifferent to grammar and syntax alike. Departures from normal German form have not been re- produced, since no purpose would be served thereby, but where the demands of a perfectly smooth English style might seem to conflict with exactness of meaning, the original German forms have been followed as literally as possible. We believe the translation cannot be successfully challenged. We turn to our decision to annotate the text. Mein Kampf is frequently a difficult book for the American reader to understand. Few Americans are, in the very nature of things, so aware of the German historical background that they can surmise without help what the author is discuss- ing. What, for example, was meant by 'interest slavery 1 ? And who was Leo Schlageter? In making annotations of this kind, we have tried to adhere to a middle course, as- suming some familiarity with Nazi history, but leaving very recondite information for scholars. Notes of this kind are based almost exclusively on German sources, and we be- Ifeve we can vouch for their accuracy and objectivity. INTRODUCTION 1 Then, too, Mein Kampf is a propagandistic essay by a violent partisan. As such it often warps historical truth and sometimes ignores it completely. We have, therefore, felt it our duty to accompany the text with factual information which constitutes an extensive critique of the original. No American would like to assume responsibility for giving the public a text which, if not tested in the light of diligent inquiry, might convey the impression that Hitler was writ- ing history rather than propaganda. It is more probable, however, that we shall have to face the opposite criticism that we have been too impartial, too objective, too little concerned with rebuttal. To this we should like to reply that truth, the accurate truth, is the only argument which in the long run prevails. One may talk a fact out of exist- ence for a time, but it somehow survives. We are prepared to rest our case as editors on our belief in that ultimate triumph. One point in particular may need emphasis. Large por- tions of Mrin Kampf are devoted to the question of race as a substructure on which to erect an anti-Semitic policy. We have not let these passages go unchallenged, but we have also not felt it necessary to include a discussion of race of our own invention. The greatest anthropologists of the twentieth century are agreed that 'race' is a practically meaningless word. All one can legitimately do, therefore, is to challenge statements of 'race history' as being fig- ments of the imagination, and to point out that they are at bottom more or less subtle ways of supporting still more ab- solute and violent forms of nationalism than even the nine- teenth century knew. In addition we have made specific objections to Hitler's anti-Semitic statements where they contradict known historical facts. A word now concerning the method adopted for the pre- sentation of the notes. As a rule we have put information relative to the sources and origins of National Socialism * INTRODUCTION into the first volume, reserving for the second volume the history of Hitler's rise to power and of German achievement since that time. Departures from this method have been made when a given point seemed explainable in no other way. This arrangement will enable the reader, should he so desire, to read the notes independently of the text itself. Naturally these notes are not designed to form a treatise on Hitlerism, but if they were read together with the books mentioned by name, they should provide a fairly adequate history of the Third Reich* Most of the notes are set in close proximity to the passage to which they refer. In a few instances, however, it seemed important to write at greater length, so that the material appears in the form of an appendix to the chapter in question. The separation be- tween text and commentary is clearly indicated, so that the reader will have no difficulty on that score. In conclusion, what should one expect to learn from Mein Kampf? Read with a clear eye, the book will show what manner of man Der Ftihrer is one who as a boy had nothing excepting a passionate belief that Germany must obtain a larger place in the sun with the help of the sword once wielded so efficiently by Prussian kings; who learned to define to his own satisfaction what groups wanted this kind of Germany, and what other groups were indifferent or opposed to that ideal ; who after the War gathered round him all those who refused to concede that defeat neces- sarily meant the end of German expansion; and who, finally, with their help, got control of the government and then set out to mobilize the whole nation for a new advance. Before the War he lived in Austria and felt that the Habsburgs, by making concessions to the Slavic groups in their empire, were putting the German group on a level with others and therefore lessening its willingness to dom- inate. Therefore, he wanted the German group to get rid of the Habsburgs and join forces with the greater Prussian INTRODUCTION id Germany. After the War he felt that the leaders of the Re- public, by seeking to bring about internal reconciliation and by making concessions to the Allies, were doing exactly what the old Habsburgs had done, excepting that this time it was not Austrian Germany but the holy of holies, Prussia itself, that was being weakened. To those who said that it was war which had sapped the substance of Germany, and that another war would end European civilization, he re- plied that it was only 'eternal peace' which destroyed peo- ples and that neither the individual nor society could escape Nature's decree that the fittest alone survive. Yet this simple philosophy is by no means the whole Hitler. He has added to it the moving force which, re- vealed both in his struggle for power and in his use of that power since 1933, is the most startling phenomenon of our time. Only the leaders of the Mohammedan, French, and Russian revolutions have aroused a comparable driving power, and at present it dominates Europe. The forces in opposition have lacked the clearness of plan, the unity of motive, the certainty of conviction, needed to make their cause prevail. The engines of industry now spin round in trepidation, and the engines of war are piled giddily in higher and higher pyramids. Already in Europe, the last are all that really count the others work to create an illusion and to help meet the staggering costs. There is no stopping them until there are in the world ideas or ideals which are stronger than that contained in Mein Kampf. It is our profound conviction that as soon as enough people have seen through this book, lived with it until the facts they behold are so startlingly vivid that all else is obscure by comparison, the tide will begin to turn. We have all of us the deepest regard for the German peo- ple. Some of us have given a good deal of time and energy to the study of just German demands and to the fostering xii INTRODUCTION of better understanding of the German tradition. None of us has abandoned the sincere belief that Germany is des- tined to be a great and cherished member of the family of peoples. So we have elected to set down without malice, yet with all the truth we can muster, the record as we see it. JOHN CHAMBERLAIN SIDNEY B. FAY JOHN GUNTHER CARLTON J. H. HAYES GRAHAM HUTTON ALVIN JOHNSON t WILLIAM L. LANGER WALTER MILLIS R. DE ROUSSY DE SALES GEORGE N. SHUSTER DEDICATION ON NOVEMBER 9, 1923, at 12.30 in the afternoon, in front of the Feldherrnhalle as well as in the courtyard of the former War Ministry, the following men, steadfast in their belief in the resurrection of their people, were killed : ALFARTH, Felix, businessman, b. July 5, 1901 BAURIEDL, Andreas, hatter, b. May 4, 1879 CASELLA, Theodor, bank employee, b. August 8, 1900 EHRLICH, Wilhelm, bank employee, b. August 19, 1894 FAUST, Martin, bank employee, b. January 27, 1901 HECHENBERGER, Anton, locksmith, b. September 28,; 1902 KOERNER, Oskar, businessman, b. January 4, 1875 KUHN, Karl, headwaiter, b. July 26, 1897 LAFORCE, Karl, student of Engineering, b. October 28, 1904 NEUBAUER, Kurt, valet, b. March 27, 1899 PAPE, Claus von, businessman, b. August 16, 1904 PFORDTEN, Theodor von der, County Court Council- lor, b. May 14, 1873 RICKMERS, Johann, retired Cavalry Captain, b. May 7, 1881 ScHEUBNER-RicHTER, Max Erwin von, Doctor of Engineering, b. January 9, 1884 STRANSKY, Lorenz Ritter von, Engineer, b. March 14, 1889 WOLF, Wilhelm, businessman, b. October 19, 1898 So-called national authorities denied these dead heroes a common grave. Therefore I dedicate to them, for common memory, the first volume of this work, as the blood witnesses of which they may continue to serve as a brilliant example for the followers of our movement. ADOLF HITLER LANDSBBRG ON THE LECH PRISON OF THE FORTRESS October 16, 1924 PREFACE ON APRIL I, 1924, because of the sentence handed down by the People's Court of Munich, I had to begin that day, serving my term in the fortress at Landsberg on the Lech. Thus, after years of uninterrupted work, I was afforded for the first time an opportunity to embark on a task insisted upon by many and felt to be serviceable to the movement by myself. Therefore, I resolved not only to set forth, in two volumes, the object of our movement, but also to draw a picture of its development. From this more can be learned than from any purely doctrinary treatise. That also gave me the opportunity to describe my own development, as far as this is necessary for the understand- ing of the first as well as the second volume, and which may serve to destroy the evil legends created about my person by the Jewish press. With this work I do not address myself to strangers, but to those adherents of the movement who belong to it with their hearts and whose reason now seeks a more intimate enlightenment. I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken than by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers. Nevertheless, the basic elements of a doctrine must be set down in permanent form in order that it may be repre- sented in the same way and in unity. In this connection these two volumes should serve as building stones which I add to our common work. THE AUTHOR LANDSBERG ON THE LECH PRISON OF THB FORTRESS CONTENTS Volume I PUBLISHERS' NOTE v INTRODUCTION vii DEDICATION xiii PREFACE xv Chapter I AT HOME 3 The Young Ringleader 7 Enthusiasm for War 8 Drawing Talent IO Never State Official 12 But Painter 13 The Young Nationalist 15 The German Ostmark 15 The Fight for the German Nationality 16 History Lessons 1 8 History Favorite Subject 2O The Habsburgs' Policy of Slavization 21 The Young Wagnerian 23 Father's Death ' 24 Mother's Passing Away 25 Chapter II YEARS OF STUDY AND SUFFERING IN VIENNA ... 26 An Architect's Ability 27 Five Years of Misery 29 Th Genius of Youth 30 Unsocial Vienna 31 The Contrasts 32 The Unskilled Worker 34 xviil CONTENTS The Uncertainty of Making a Living 35 The Worker's Fate 36 The Perpetual Mirage of Hunger 37 Unfortunate Victims of Bad Social Conditions 37 The Nature of Social Activity 39 The Lack of ' National Pride ' 41 The Rats of Political Poisoning 42 Martyrdom of the Worker's Child 43 The Presupposition for - Nationalization ' 44 Arduous Study 44 The Art of Reading 46-49 Social Democracy 50 First Encounter with Social Democrats 5I~53 The Red Terror 53 The Social Democrat Press 54 The Psyche of the Masses 56 Tactics of Marxism 58 The Victims of the Red Tempters 59 The Sins of the Bourgeoisie 59 The Necessity of Union Activity 60 The Struggle for Power 62 Politization of the Unions 63 The Threatening Thundercloud 64 The Key to Social Democracy 66 The Jewish Question 66 The So-called World Press 68 Criticism of Kaiser Wilhelm II 70 The Greatest German Mayor 72 Is This Also a Jew? 73 The Zionists 74 The Spiritual Pestilence of Jewry 76 The Cunning of the 'World Press' 77 The Manager of Vice 78 The Jew as Leader of Social Democracy 78-~79 Jewish Dialectics 8 1 The Cosmopolite Changes into a Fanatical Anti- Semite 83 Marxism and Nature 84 CONTENTS xlx Chapter III GENERAL POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS FROM MY TIME IN VIENNA 85 The Politician 86 Political Thinking 87 Vienna's Last Rise 88 Germanity in Austria 89 Centrifugal Forces 96 The Tragic Guilt of the Habsburge 93 The Revolution of 1848 94 The Historical Liquidation of the Danube Monarchy 94 Parliamentarianism 95 The Soil of the Marxist World Plague 99 Lack of Responsibility IOO The Leader and the Masses IO2 The Incompetents and the Babblers IO2 Hiding Behind the Majority 103 Lined up in a Queue 105 The Parliamentarian Profiteers 106 4 Public Opinion' 108 The Machine for Educating the Masses 108 The Cuttlefish I IO The Will of the Majority 1 12 The Intellectual Demi-monde 1 14 The Gist of the Matter 115 Germanic Democracy 1 1 6 The Collapsing Dual Monarchy 119 The Pan -German Movement I2O The Dreams of the Forefathers 121 The Rebellion of the German- Austrians 121 Human Rights Breaks State Rights 123 The Merit of the Pan-Germans in Austria 124 Schoenerer and Lueger 125-129 Pacifism of the German Bourgeoisie 130 The Fight Against Parliamentarism 132 Parliament and Peoples' Assembly 133 'Parliamentarians' Instead of Leaders 135 xx CONTENTS The Magic of the Word 136 The Power of Speech 137 Mistakes of the Pan-German Movement 138 Religion and Politics 139 The Los-von-Rom Movement 140-152 Concentration 152 The Way of the Christian Social Party 153 A Splash of Baptismal Water 154 The Christian -Social Sham Anti-Semitism 156 Pan-German and Christian-Social 158 Rising Aversion Against the Habsburg State 159 The Old Mosaic Picture 1 60 The School of my Life 161-162 Chapter IV MUNICH 163 Germany's Wrong Policy of Alliance 164 The Jugglery of the Triple Alliance 165 The Bearers of the Idea of the Alliance 1 66 Insane Attitude 167 The Four Ways of German Politics 169-179 Pyramids Standing on their Points 180 With England Against Russia 183 The Dream of World-Peace 185 With Russia Against England 1 88 4 Peaceful Economic ' Conquest The Greatest Folly 1 88 The Englishman as Seen by the German Cartoonist 189 The Inner Weakness of the Triple Alliance 190 Ludendorff on the Weakness of the Triple Alliance 192 The Jewish-Socialist War-Agitators Against Russia 193 The Tempting Legacy 193 Warnings from German Conservatives 194 The Nature of the State 195-201 Symptoms of Decay 201 The Years of Destruction 2OI Prattling Quackery 203 CONTENTS xxi Chapter V THB WORLD WAR 204 The Impending Catastrophe 205 The Slav's Greatest Friend is Murdered 206 Austria's Ultimatum 206 The German Nation's Existence or Non-existence 207 The Meaning of the Struggle for Freedom 210 Joining a Bavarian Regiment 212 The Baptism of Fire 213 A Monument to Immortality 216 The Parliamentarian Prattlers 216 Drops of Wormwood in the General Enthusiasm 217 Misunderstood Marxism 2l8 What Was to be Done Now? 220 The Use of Force 221 Perseverance 222 The Attack Against the View of Life 223 The Same Rubbish 224 The Great Gap 225 Chapter VI WAR PROPAGANDA 227 Propaganda a Means 228 The Purpose of Propaganda 229 Propaganda Only for the Masses 230 The Task of Propaganda 231-232 The Psychology of Propaganda 233 The Consequence of Half Measures 236 German Mania of Objectivity 237 Pacifistic Dishwater 238 Propaganda for the Masses 239 The Enemy's Propaganda 240 CONTENTS Chapter VII THE REVOLUTION 243 The Enemy's First Leaflets 245 Lamenting Letters from Home 246 The Poison on the Front 246 Wounded 247 Boasting of One's Own Cowardice 248 The Duty-Shirkers 249 The Most Ingenious Trick of the Jew 252 The Ammunition Strike The Greatest Villainy 253 Russia's Collapse 256-257 The 'German ' Revolution Awaited Its Entry 258 The Result of the Ammunition Strike 258 The Front and the Political Rascals 260 Increase of the Decay 262 The Younger Reinforcements Fail 264 Poisoned by Mustard Gas 264 'Republic' 266 In Vain all the Sacrifices 267 Wretched and Miserable Criminals! 268 Scoundrels Are Without Honor 269 Chapter VIII BEGINNING OF MY POLITICAL ACTIVITY . . . .277 Social Revolutionary Party 280-281 Gottfried Feder 282 The Task of the Program-Maker 283 Program-Maker and Politician 284 The Marathon Runners of History 286 Breaking of the Tyranny of Interest 287 The ' Instruction Officer ' 289-290 CONTENTS xxlii Chapter IX THB 'GERMAN WORKERS' PARTY' 291 'My Political Awakening* 296 The Board Meeting in the 'Alte Rosenbad 9 297-298 The So-called ' Intelligentsia ' 300 The Seventh Member 301 Chapter X THE CAUSES OF THE COLLAPSE 302 Premonitory Symptoms of Collapse 3O3~~34 The Great Lie 306 The Culprits of the Collapse 307 Do Nations Perish by Lost Wars? 308 Among the Germans Every Third Man a Traitor 311 The Great Masters of Lying 313 Diseases of National Bodies 314 The Signs of Decay 315 The Idol of Mammon 316 Labor as the Object of Speculation 319 Half Measures One of the Most Evil Symptoms of Decay 322 The Gravediggers of the Monarchy 323 The Meaning of the Monarchy 324 The Cowards of 1918 326 Cowardice Towards Responsibility 327 Three Groups of Readers 328 The Pretended 'Freedom of the Press* 330 Mass Poisoning of the Nation 330 Tactics of the Jewish Press 331 The Result of Our Semi- Education 334 The ' Decent ' Press 335 Syphilis 336 The Miserable Products of Financial Expediency 337 The ' Defining of Attitude ' 338 CONTENTS The Sin Against the Blood and the Degradation of the Race 339 The Task of the Nation 341 Prostitution A Disgrace to Mankind 342 Marriage Not an End in Itself 343 Education of Youth 345~346 Premature and Prematurely Old 348 One of the Most Colossal Tasks 349 The 'Protective Paragraph* 350 The Energy for the Fight for Health 351 The Bolshevism of Art 352 The Decay of the Theater 355 The Tainting of the Great Past 356 Meaning and Purpose of Revolutions 358 Intellectual Preparation for Political Bolshevism 359 'Inner Experience* 360 'Human Settlements' 360 Monuments of the Community 362 Department Store and Hotel Characteristic Ex- pression of Culture 363 The Religious Situation 364 Organic State Laws and Dogmas 366 Political Abuse of Religion 367 Without Political Aims 368 The Failure of Parliamentarism 369 Half-hearted Solutions 370 The Lie of the German ' Militarism ' 374 The 'Idea of Risk' 376 The Parliamentarian Head, the Misfortune of the Navy 377 Villains, Scoundrels, Rascals, and Criminals 378 The German Advantages 380 Parade and Public Kitchen 381 The Stability of the State Authority 382 The Greatest Factor of Value The Army 383 The Greatest School of the German Nation 384 The Incomparable Body of Officials 386 The State Authority 387 The Ultimate Cause of the Collapse 388 CONTENTS xxv Chapter XI NATION AND RACE 389 The Race 390-391 The Result of All Race-crossing 392 Man and Idea 394 Race and Culture 396 Life is a Struggle 397 Founders of Culture 398 The Mirror of the Past 400 The Ingenious Race 402 The Aryan is the Bearer of Cultural Development 404 The Loss of the Purity of the Blood 406 The Aryan's Will to Sacrifice Himself 407 Purest Idealism Deepest Knowledge 41 1 The Aryan and the Jew 412 The 'Clever' Jew 412 Jewry's Instinct of Self-Preservation 414 Judaism's Sham Culture 416 The Jewish Ape 417 The Parasite 419 The First Great Lie 421 The Jewish Religion 422 Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion 423 The Development of Judaism 425 The Final Goal of Judaism 435 The ' Factory Worker ' 436 Employer and Employee 438 The Tactics of Judaism 440 The Nucleus of the 'Marxist* View of Life 441 The Organization of the Marxist World Doctrine 443 The Central Organization of International World Cheating 447 Dictatorship of the Proletariat 449 The Great, Final Revolution 450 Bastardized Nations 452 The Sham Prosperity of the Old Reich 453 A Germanic State of the German Nation 457 xx* CONTENTS Chapter XII THE FIRST PERIOD IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NA- TIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS' PARTY 456 A People Tom in Two Parts 457 The Lacking Will for Self -Preservation 459 The Winning of the Broad Masses 461 The Weak Momentum 462 The Best Property of the Nation 463 The Nationalization of the Masses 464 The Demands for This 465 The Smashing of Parliamentarianism 479 The Ingenious Idea 481 The Organization of the National Socialist Movement 482 Fanaticism 486 The Honorary Scar 488 Personality Cannot be Substituted 488 The Eternal Hands 489 The Speech Evening 490 The First Meeting 491 The First Success 492 Fight Against the Red Terror 494 The Second Meeting 495 The Shaping of the Young Movement 496 German Folkish Wandering Scholars 498 Folkish Comedians 499 'Folkish' 501 Spiritual Marches Against Berlin 502 The ' Spiritual Weapon ' 503 Folkish Moths 504 The First Great Mass Meeting 505 Fraternization Between Marxism and Center 507 Pfchner and Frick , 58 The Foundations of the Coming State 5IO The Victory of the First Great Demonstration 512 The Coming Rise 515 POSTER APPENDIX 517 CONTENTS xxvii Velum* II Chapter I VIEW OF LIFE AND PARTY 563 Bourgeois 'Program Committees' 564 From the Life of a 'People's Representative' 565 Marxism and Democratic Principle $68 View of Life Against View of Life 570 The Conception ' Folkish ' 573 From Religious Feeling to Apodictic Belief 575 From 'Folkish ' Feeling to Political Creed 576 From Creed to Community of Struggle 57^ Marxism Against Race and Personality 579 Folkish Attitude Towards Race and Personality 579 The Challenge of the Free Play of Forces 581 Condensation in the Party 582 Crystallization of a Political Creed 583 Chapter II THB STATE 584 Three Reigning Conceptions of the State 585-587 False Notion of ' Germanization ' 588 Only Land Can Be Germanized 591 The State No End in Itself 592 Cultural Level Conditioned by Race 593 National Socialist Conception of the State 594 Viewpoints for Judging the State 596 Consequences of Our Racial Dismemberment 598 Mission of the German People 600 Task of the German State 6oi World History is Made by Minorities 603 The Bastard Must Succumb 604 Natural Process of Regeneration of the Race 605 Danger of Race-Mixing 606 xxviil CONTENTS 'Folkish ' State and Race Hygiene 608 Race-pure Border Colonies 6lO Call to German Youth 6ll The Bourgeoisie's Lack of Energy 6l2 Healthy Body Healthy Spirit 614 Educational Maxims of the ' Folkish ' State 615 The Value of Sports 616 Suggestive Force of Self -Confidence 618 Suggestive Force of United Action 618 Control Between School Age and Military Service Age 619 The Army as Final and Highest School 620 Character Formation 621 Education in Discretion 622 Cultivation of Will Power and Determination 623 Fostering Readiness for Responsibility 625 Principles of Scientific Schooling 626 No Overburdening of the Brain 626 Principles of Language Instruction 627 Principles of History Instruction 628 General Training Professional Training 630 Value of Humanistic Training 631 Current 'Patriotic* Education 632 Inspiring Force of Great Models 633 Awakening National Pride 633 Fear of Chauvinism is Impotence 636 Inculcation of a Racial Sense 636 Human Selection 637 Capability and Learning 638 Training Prodigies 640 State Selection of the Qualified 640 The Catholic Church's Link with the People 643 Appraisal of Work 645 Grading of Services 649 Ideal and Reality 650 CONTENTS mi* Chapter III SUBJECTS AND CITIZENS OF THE STATE .... 656 How One Becomes a Citizen Today 657 Citizens State Subjects Aliens 658 The State Citizen Master of the Reich 659 Chapter IV PERSONALITY AND THE CONCEPTION OF THE NATIONAL STATE 660 Construction on Aristocratic Principle 66 1 Rise of Human Culture 662 Personality and Progress of Culture 663 Value of Personality 664 The Majority Principle 666 Marxism Denies Personality 666 Marxism is Uncreative 668 The Best State Constitution 669 Advisory Chambers Responsible Leaders 670 Towards the Future State 672 Chapter V VIEW OF LIFE AND ORGANIZATION 673 Struggle and Criticism 674 Views of Life are Intolerant 676 Parties Seek Compromises 676 Community on the Basis of New View of Life 677 Leadership and Following- 678 Necessity of Guiding Principles 680 Formulation of Guiding Principles 68 1 Stability of Program 682 Spirit, Not Letter, Decides 683 National Socialism and Folkish Idea 684 THe Sham Folkish 685 xxx CONTENTS Chapter VI THE STRUGGLE OF THE EARLY DAYS THE SIGNIFI- CANCE OF THE SPOKEN WORD 695 Struggle Against Poisoning Propaganda 696 Against the Current 699 Politics at Far Sight 700 Oratorical Experiences 701 Enlightenment on the Peace Treaties 702 Speech More Effective than Writing 704 Psychological Aspects of Oratory 704 Oratory and Writing in the Service of Agitation 705 Psychological Conditions of Oratorical Effectiveness 709 Orators and Revolution 711 Printed Speech Disappoints 712 Bethmann and Lloyd George as Orators 712 Necessity of Mass Meetings 715 Significance of Community Feeling 715 Orators Who Break Down 716 Chapter VII THE STRUGGLE WITH THE RED FRONT . . . 717 Bourgeois ' Mass Meetings ' 718 National Socialist Mass Meetings 720 The Equivocal Red Posters 721 Vacillating Tactics of the Marxists 723 Opponents Make Us Known 723 Law-Breaking Police Procedure 724 Psychologically Correct Rally Management 725 Marxist Rally Technique 726 Bourgeois Rally Technique 727 National Socialist Order Troops 729 Significance of the Unified Symbol 730 Old and New Black-Red-Gold 731 Old and New Reich Flag 733 The National Socialist Flag 734 CONTENTS xxxi Interpretation of the National Socialist Symbol 736 The First Circus Rally 739 Rally After Rally 743 Futile Attempts at Disruption 746 The Meeting Continues 749 Chapter VIII THE STRONG MAN is MIGHTIEST ALONE . . . 750 Right of Priority in a Movement 751 The Struggle for Leadership 753 Austria and Prussia 754 Causes of Folkish Dismemberment 757 The Formation of Joint Efforts 758 The Essence of Joint Efforts 760 The Collapse of Joint Efforts 762 Chapter IX FUNDAMENTAL THOUGHTS ON THE MEANING AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STORM TROOPS 764 The Three Pillars of Authority 764 The Three Classes of Folk Bodies 766 The Sacrifice of the Best 767 The Hyperfecundity of the Bad 768 Resulting Disorganization 770 Founding of the Free Corps 771 Misplaced Leniency to Deserters 773 Deserters and Revolution 773 Fear of the Front Soldiers 775 Collaboration of Left Parties 776 The Capture of the Bourgeois 777 Capitulation of the Bourgeois 779 Why Did the Revolution Succeed? 780 Passivity of the State Guardians 781 Capitulation to Marxism 782 xx*K CONTENTS Breakdown of the National Parties 783 Without an Idea, No Force for Struggle 784 Advocacy of the Folkish Idea 786 Need for Guard Troops 787 Guarding the Nation, Not the State 790 Self-Protection, Not 'Defense League' 791 Why No Defense Leagues 792 Impossibility of Proper Drilling 793 Counter-Tendency of the State 795 The Sacrifice of Our Army 796 No Secret Organizations 797 The Danger of Secret Organizations 798 Shall Traitors be ' Eliminated ' ? 800 Sport Training of the S.A. 801 Designation and Publicity 802 First Parade in Munich 805 The March to Coburg 806 The Reception in Coburg 806 Red Demonstration 807 The S.A. Stands the Test as a Vital Organization of Struggle 809 The End of 1923 810 Chapter X FEDERALISM AS A MASK 816 War Associations and Anti-Prussian Sentiment 817 Anti- Prussian Agitation as a Diversion Maneuver 818 Kurt Eisner, 'Bavarian Particularist ' 819 My Struggle Against the Anti-Prussian Incitement 820 1 Federative Activity ' 822 Jewish Incitement Tactic 823 Anti-Semitism and Defense 824 The Jew Creates Confessional Conflict 825 The Curse of Religious Wars 826 Necessity for Agreement 827 Struggle Against the 'Center 1 828 CONTENTS xxxiii Federal or Unified State? 830 The Gentian Federal State 831 Bismarck's Creation 832 The Revolution and the Federal State 833 The Policy of Redemption and the Forfeiture of the Federal States' Sovereignty 834 Results of Reich Foreign Policy 836 National State or Slave Colony 837 Unifying Tendencies 838 Abuse of Centralization 839 Oppression of the Individual States 841 Centralization Benefits Party Coffers 841 Reich State Sovereignty 842 Cultural Tasks of the Provinces 842 Unification of the Army 843 One People One State 845 Chapter XI PROPAGANDA AND ORGANIZATION 846 Theoretician Organizer Agitator 847 Followers and Members 849 Propaganda and Organization 850 The Power for Struggle of Activistic Selection 853 Limitation on Membership Enrolment 854 Frightening the Half-Hearted 856 Reorganization of the Movement 857 Suspension of 'Parliamentarism* 858 Responsibility of the Chief 859 Principle of the Leader Idea 859 The Embryonic State of the Movement 860 Building the Movement 86l xxxhr CONTENTS Chapter XII THE TRADE-UNION QUESTION 868 Arc Trade Unions Necessary? 870 National Socialist Trade Unions? 871 Future Chambers of Economy 875 Corporation Chambers and Economic Parliament 876 No Dual Unions 877 First the Battle for the View of Life, Later the Libera- tion of the Individual 880 Better no National Socialist Trade Union than a Mis- carriage 882 Chapter XIII GERMAN POLICY OF ALLIANCE AFTER THE WAR . . 885 Reasons for the Breakdown 886 The Goal of Foreign Policy: Freedom for Tomorrow 888 Precondition for the Liberation of the Lost Regions 888 Strengthening of Continental Power 892 False Continental Policy Before the War 894 European Relations of Power 894 England and Germany 895 Shifting of the 4 Balance of Power' 896 England's War Aim Unachieved 898 The Hegemony of France 899 Political Aims of France and England 899 On the Possibilities of Alliances 900 Necessity of Community of Interests 901 Is Germany Capable of an Alliance? 903 The Will to Destruction of Jewish Finance 905 Jewish World Incitement Against Germany 906 Adaptation to the Mentalities of Nations 907 Two Possible Allies: England Italy 908 Hobnobbing with France 909 The South Tyrol Question 911 CONTENTS XKXV Frustration of German-Italian Agreement 915 Who Betrayed the South Tyrol 915 Not Armed Force, But the Politics of Alliance 917 Three Questions on the Politics of Alliance 918 The First Symptom of German Rebirth 919 Neglected Exploiting of the Versailles Treaty 920 4 Lord Bless Our Struggle ' 921 Inversion of the Anti-German Psychosis 922 The Will to Liberation Struggle 923 Concentration on One Opponent 925 Settling Accounts with One's Own Traitors 925 War of the Nations Against Jewry 927 England and Jewry 928 Japan and Jewry 929 Jewry, the World Enemy 931 Chapter XIV EASTERN ORIENTATION OR EASTERN POLICY . . 933 Prejudice in Questions of Foreign Policy 934 Significance of the State's Territorial Extensiveness 935 Area and World Power 936 French and German Colonial Policy 937 Out of the Constricted Existence! 939 The Strength of a State is Relative 941 The Fruits of a Millennium of German Policy 941 No Hurrah-Patriotism! 943 The Call to the Old Borders 944 Foreign Poljpy Aim of the National Socialists 947 No Sentimentality in Foreign Policy 948 Germanic Elements in Russia 951 End of Jewish Domination in Russia? 952 Bismarck's Russian Policy 953 The 'League of Oppressed Nations' 954 Is England's Hold on India Shaking? 955 Is England's Hold on the East Shaking? 957 German Alliance with Russia? 957 xxxvi CONTENTS Germany-Russia Before the War 960 A Political Testament 963 Advantages of an Anglo-German-Italian Alliance 964 The Preconditions for an Eastern Policy 965 The National Socialists 966 Chapter XV EMERGENCY DEFENSE AS A RIGHT 968 Jewish Leadership of Foreign Policy 970 Seven Years to 1813 Seven Years to Locarno 971 Persecution of Unpleasant Prophets 972 France's Immovable War Aim 974 France's Immovable Political Aim 977 Settlement with France 978 The Occupation of the Ruhr District 979 Foreign and Domestic Political Results of the Ruhr Occupation 979 What Should Have Been Done After the Ruhr Oc- cupation? 981 The Neglected Accounting with Marxism 983 Not Weapons, but Will, Decides! 987 Cuno's Road 987 The 'United Front' 988 Passive Resistance 989 The Position of the National Socialists 990 November 1923 992 Our Dead as Monitors of Duty 993 * CONCLUSION 994 INDEX 995 Volume One AN ACCOUNTING This translation was prepared under the aus- pices of Dr. Alvin Johnson, of The New School for Social Research. The typography of the text of this book follows that of the first German edition. Both italics and bold-faced type are used wherever they occurred in the original. The more important portions of this book, omit- ted from the Dugdale Abridgment or condensed in that version, are indicated by a dagger at the beginning of such passages and by an arrow at the end. CHAPTER I AT HOME FODAY I consider it my good fortune that Fate de- 1 signated Braunau on the Inn as the place of my birth. For this small town is situated on the border between those two German States, the reunion of which seems, at least to us of the younger generation, a task to be furthered with every means our lives long. German-Austria must return to the great German mo- therland, and not because of economic considerations of any sort. No, no: even if from the economic point of view this union were unimportant, indeed, if it were harmful, it ought nevertheless to be brought about. Common blood be- longs in a common Reich. As long as the German nation is unable even to band together its own children in one com- mon State, it has no moral right to think of colonization as one of its political aims. Only when the boundaries of the Reich include even the last German, only when it is no longer possible to assure him of daily bread inside them, does there arise, out of the distress of the nation, the moral right to acquire foreign soil and territory. The sword is then the plow, and from the tears of war there grows the daily bread for generations to come. Therefore, this little town on the border appears to me the symbol of a great task. But in another respect also it looms up as a warning 4 MEIN KAMPF to our present time. More than a hundred years ago, this insignificant little place had the privilege of gaining an immortal place in German history at least by being the scene of a tragic misfortune that moved the entire nation. There, during the time of the deepest humiliation of our fatherland, Johannes Palm, citizen of Nurnberg, a middle- class bookdealer, die-hard 'nationalist, 1 an enemy of the The idealism of the Wars of Liberation, waged by Prussia against Napoleon, is reflected in the career of Johann Phillip Palm, Nurnberg book-seller, who in 1806 issued a work en- titled, Deutschland in seiner tiefsten Erniedrigung (Germany in the Hour of Its Deepest Humiliation). This was a diatribe against the Corsican. Palm was tried by a military tribunal, sentenced to death, and shot at Braunau on August 26, 1806. During the centenary year (1906) a play in honor of Palm was written by A. Ebenhoch, an Austrian author. It is possible that Hitler may have seen or read this drama. Leo Schlageter, a German artillery officer who served after the World War in the Free Corps with which General von der Goltz attempted to conserve part of what Germany had gained by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, was found guilty of sabotage by a French military tribunal during the Ruhr invasion of 1923. He had blown up a portion of the railway line between Dusseldorf and Duisburg, and had been caught in the act. The assertion that he was 'betrayed* to the French is without historical foundation. It was the policy of the German govern- ment to discountenance open military measures and to place its reliance upon so-called 'passive resistance.' Karl Severing, then Social Democratic Minister of the Interior in Prussia, was a zealous though cautious patriot whose firm defense of the democratic institutions of Weimar angered extremists of all kinds. He was thus a favorite Nazi target. The governments oi the Reich and of Prussia made every effort to save Schlageter. The Vatican intervened in his behalf, and it is generally sup- posed that the French authorities would have commuted the sentence had it not been for a sudden wave of opposition to AT HOME 5 French, was killed for the sake of the Germany he ardently loved even in the hour of its distress. He had obstinately refused to denounce his fellow offenders, or rather the chief offenders. Thus he acted like Leo Schlageter. But like him, he too was betrayed to France by a representative of his government. It was a director of the Augsburg police who earned that shoddy glory, thus setting an example for the new German authorities of Heir Severing's Reich, t In this little town on the river Inn, gilded by the light of German martyrdom, there lived, at the end of the eighties of the last century, my parents, Bavarian by blood, Aus- trian by nationality : the father a faithful civil servant, the Poincar6's policy in the Chamber. That induced the govern- ment to make a show of firmness. Schlageter, whose last words are said to have been, 'Germany must live,' was executed on May 26, 1923. Immediately he became a German national hero. His example more than anything else hallowed the tradition of the Free Corps in the popular mind and thus strengthened pro- militaristic sentiment. One of the first cultural activities of the Nazi regime was a tribute to Schlageter. Hitler's family background has been a subject for much re- search and speculation. The father, Alois Hitler (1837-1903), was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber; and it is generally assumed that the father was the man she married Johann Hiedler. Until he was forty, he bore the name of his mother, being known as Alois Schicklgruber. Then on January 8, 1877, he legally changed the name to Hitler, which had been that of his maternal grandmother. His third wife was Klara Poelzl (1860-1908), who on April 20, 1889, gave birth to Adolf Hitler. There may have been a brother or half-brother if reports current in Nazi circles are to be credited. At any rate, Hitler has a living sister and a half-sister. The first has lived in retirement, but the second a woman of considerable charm and ability is known to have exercised no little influence at times. 6 MEIN KAMPF mother devoting herself to the cares of the household and looking after her children with eternally the same loving kindness. I remember only little of this time, for a few years later my father had again to leave the little border town he had learned to like, and go down the Inn to take a new position at Passau, that is in Germany proper. But the lot of an Austrian customs official of those days frequently meant 'moving on.' Just a short time after- wards my father was transferred to Linz, and finally retired on a pension there. But this was not to mean * rest' for the old man. The son of a poor cottager, even in his childhood he had not been able to stay at home. Not yet thirteen years old, the little boy he then was bundled up his things and ran away from his homeland, the Waldviertel. Despite the dissuasion of 'experienced' inhabitants of the village he had gone to Vienna to learn a trade there. This was in the fifties of the last century. A bitter resolve it must have been to take to the road, into the unknown, with only three guilders for traveling money. But by the time the thirteen- year-old lad was seventeen, he had passed his apprentice's examination, but he had not yet found satisfaction. It was rather the opposite. The long time of hardship through which he then passed, of endless poverty and misery, strengthened his resolve to give up the trade after all in order to become something 'better.' If once the village pastor had seemed to the little boy the incarnation of all obtainable human success, now, in the big city which had so widened his perspective, the rank of civil servant became the ideal. With all the tenacity of one who had grown ' old ' through want and sorrow while still half a child, the sev- enteen-year-old youth clung to his decision . . . and became a civil servant. The goal was reached, I believe, after nearly twenty-three years. Now there had been realized the premise of the vow that the poor boy once had sworn, not to return to his dear native village before he had become something. AT HOME 7 Now the goal was reached, but nobody in the village remembered the little boy of long ago, and the village had become a stranger to him. When he retired at the age of fifty-six, he was unable to spend a single day in 'doing nothing.' He bought a farm near Lambach in Upper Austria which he worked himself, thus returning, after a long and active life, to the origin of his ancestors. It was probably at that time that my first ideals were formed. A lot of romping around out-of-doors, the long trip to school, and the companionship with unusually 'ro- bust 1 boys, which at times caused my mother much grief, made me anything but a stay-at-home. Though I did not brood over my future career at that time, I had decidedly no sympathy for the course my father's life had taken. I believe that even then my ability for making speeches was trained by the more or less stirring discussions with my comrades. I had become a little ringleader and at that time learned easily and did very well in school, but for the rest I was rather difficult to handle. Inasmuch as I received singing lessons in my spare time


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Postby AdricDePsycho » Sat Aug 08, 2015 8:54 pm

NathanLoiselle wrote:Of course my mom don't have a mouth. Only sluts have mouths. Like your mom!

Fix your goddamn grammar.
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Re: Hate-for-All 2015

Postby iMURDAu » Sat Aug 08, 2015 9:32 pm

Phighter wrote:All the your mom jokes
make me want to vom
no one has any skill anymore in their hatred
maybe next time Hate Week will remain dead.


Just for you Phigter. Yeah I spelled it wrong on purpose. The yt vid is hidden until you click it but nobody should be surprised at its content. At least not anybody here on this site.



this was a hate week post in a hate week thread
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Re: Hate-for-All 2015

Postby jbobsully11 » Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:25 am

So this thread hasn't been active in a few hours. The fuck's that about? Lazy, pathetic bastards...
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Re: Hate-for-All 2015

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Well, Hate Week's winding down and I figure I should give some feedback to improve it for next year. Ban Doctor Ambiguous

It has the nerve to slink back to the forum to post a day late for Hate Week, and has barely interacted with me at all! Much like every poor bastard who has ever been fooled into sleeping with you "doctor", I'm completely unsatisfied.
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