Has anyone else read Mein Kampf?

[BienvenuJDC]

Actually, as do I. Religion minor here.

I've had the equivalent of a minor in Bible. And I've been a preacher for quite a number of years. Any favorite parts?

[ScribbleScribe]

Actually I've read only bits and pieces so I can't say what is my favorite part.

[BienvenuJDC]

Actually I've read only bits and pieces so I can't say what is my favorite part.

I'm always available to discuss or give thoughts on any parts of it. Feel free to message me.

[Emil Miller]

From Mein Kampf to the Bible in two pages. Is this a record?

[stlukesguild]

People say the bible is boring but its one of the most analyzed texts in history. So, yeah, not all literature is interesting I guss.

And some people find Shakespeare "boring". Many, many years ago I was assigned a research essay on the rise of the Nazis and read Mein Kampf as part of the research. It was horribly written and painfully repetitive as well as its obvious moral lapses.

[ScribbleScribe]

Maybe its easier to digest in audio form. The guy reading it has a german accent.

[cafolini]

I studied it when in my 30's. Everything that Hitler was to become is there. A terrible lunatic. I don't blame any Jew for being scared of even touching it.

[Darcy88]

Was Hitler really much of a rhetorician? I used to be a ww2 buff so I took in quite a few hours of his speeches. The man had a powerful presence, he was a stick of dynamite that kept on exploding. Add to that the euphoric energy of the mob and I understand how he could come to wield such influence over the German people. But if you compare his rhetoric to the speeches in say Thucydides, it wasn't all that impressive.

[Charles Darnay]

Was Hitler really much of a rhetorician? I used to be a ww2 buff so I took in quite a few hours of his speeches. The man had a powerful presence, he was a stick of dynamite that kept on exploding. Add to that the euphoric energy of the mob and I understand how he could come to wield such influence over the German people. But if you compare his rhetoric to the speeches in say Thucydides, it wasn't all that impressive.

I agree, but he knew how to give people what they wanted.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I've always been interested in reading Mien Kumpf (I've always thought the title was dirty sounding, though that's not why I want to read it). After reading this thread, I've changed my mind.

[Charles Darnay]

I've always been interested in reading Mien Kumpf (I've always thought the title was dirty sounding, though that's not why I want to read it). After reading this thread, I've changed my mind.

It really is not worth it outside of the historical value.

[Desolation]

Did Hitler actually write his own speeches?

The sections I read of Mein Kampf came off as the words of a blathering idiot - a far cry from the brilliant speaker that people make him out to be.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I think the power of his speeches was largely derived from how he spoke, not what he spoke. I doubt someone speaking in a boring monotone could've achieved any kind of success as Hitler did. Hell, he more likely would've been labeled a nut.

Maybe that's the key to liking Mien Kumpf--just hear the narrator as a screaming, dynamic man with messy oiled hair.

[cafolini]

Did Hitler actually write his own speeches?

The sections I read of Mein Kampf came off as the words of a blathering idiot - a far cry from the brilliant speaker that people make him out to be.

Agree rotundly. Short of retarded. But the germans were very mentally ill and ready for him.
That's why at the end, we needed the Nuremberg trials. Germany was very ill.

[stlukesguild]

And yet these same "mentally ill" Germans also produced a wealth of the leading figures in art, music, literature, the theater, film, and philosophy:

Thomas Mann
Hermann Hesse
Robert Walser
Franz Kafka
Ranier Maria Rilke
Gottfried Benn
Bertolt Brecht
Stefan George
Klaus Mann
Richard Strauss
Alban Berg
Arnold Schoenberg
Erich Korngold
Anton Webern
Paul Hindemith
Otto Klemperer
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Herbert von Karajan
Kurt Weill
Othmar Schoeck
Marlene Dietrich
Greta Garbo
F.W. Murnau
Max Reinhardt
Leni Riefenstahl
Conrad Veidt
Robert Weine
Walter Gropius
Mies van der Rohe
Theodor Adorno
Walter Benjamin
Martin Buber
Martin Heidegger
Paul Klee
Max Beckmann
E.L. Kirchner
Otto Dix
George Grosz
max Ernst
John Heartfield
Erich Heckel
Emil Nolde
Kurt Schwitters
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Fritz Lang
Adolf Loos
Ernst Lubitsch
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Peter Lorre
Billy Wilder