There is a copy of Finnish language edition (Taisteluni) in my parents' bookshelf. Haven't read it and most like never will.

My greatuncle got it as Christmas present in 1944. Mother's family had custom of giving books as gifts. Oldest books I'm aware of are from 1850s.

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" Mein Kampf " was forbidden in the Third Reich !

talking about Hitler's mental state, much has been written about him, I think the consensus now is that he was lucid until 1943-44 when his mental state and health really started to deteriorate.

But that is not the impression you get from reading "Mein Kampf", again it has been close to 40 years since I read it, but my overriding impression at the time was that the writer had serious mental issues and he wrote the book in the mid-1920s. Releasing the book again will IMHO do more to shatter the Hitler myth than to bolster it.

A new bavarian 'cottage" industry
 

ODDLY In the United States, the book can be found at almost any community library and can be bought, sold and traded in bookshops.The U.S. government seized the copyright in September 1942 during the Second World War under the Trading with the Enemy Act and in 1979, Houghton Mifflin, the U.S. publisher of the book, bought the rights from the government. More than 15,000 copies are sold a year.:hmmm: perhaps not so oddly...Mein Kampf was widely available and growing in popularity in Turkey, even to the point where it became a bestseller, selling up to 100,000 copies in just two months in 2005. In theRussian Federation, Mein Kampf has been published at least three times since 1992; the Russian text is also available on websites. In 2006 the Public Chamber of Russia proposed banning the book. In 2009 St. Petersburg's branch of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs requested to remove an annotated and hyper-linked Russian translation of the book from a historiography web site. On 13 April 2010, it was announced that Mein Kampf is outlawed on grounds of extremism promotion. Tell that to the Crimeans and Ukrainians:O:[wiki] The worthy :huh: tome (obviously) has been published in India since 1928 and sold over 100,000 copies. But there's no accounting for taste on the subcontinent...http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...2648310246.jpg

I could not get pass the health warning on page one..Reading this book could make you blind.


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I think I'll stick with Das Kapital. :O: :haha:

I've looked but cannot find... who posted this in The Funny Picture Thread a while back, was it Platapus?

http://i.imgur.com/cn5DDVI.jpg

An interesting footnote to "Mein Kampf" is the fact a future California US Senator was sued by Hitler and his publishers for printing a fully footnoted and cited edition of the book in the US. From a Los Angeles Times 1988 article:

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-02-...9_1_mein-kampf

Cranston would wear the lawsuit loss as a badge of honor throughout his political career as the man who took on Hitler and the Nazis before the war and who warned of what was to come. Cranston went on to become a very respected senior member of the Senate and Hitler, well we all know what became of him...


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He became radicalised by a radical Imam, so I hear. :hmmm:

Odd, I heard Hitler listened to the Imam and left, saying "That guy's nuts!!"...


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great story, I vaguely remember Cranston when he was a Senator but never knew that story.

No it was not. Everyone had it in his library, though not all read it.

hmmm, all of a sudden 4,000 copies of a new edition of Mein Kampf hitting the streets. Who will purchase these books? Could this be a tracker book like 'The Catcher in the Rye" used to locate and wake up sleeper assassins?

"Mark David Chapman who murdered John Lennon, and John Hinkley the man who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan but failed were both found with copies of The Catcher in the Rye.

After killing John Lennon on December 8th, 1980, Chapman dropped the gun and proceeded to take out a copy The Catcher in the Rye, and calmly started reading, while waiting for the police to arrive. When police entered the apartment of John Hinkley, they found a copy of the book on his coffee table.

Also, Chapman told police, “If you want to know why I murdered John Lennon, read The Catcher in the Rye.”"

Jerry Fletcher

Yeah right, more conspiracies.

hmmmmmmm

[welding anti tank traps on the border]