Mein Kampf (My Struggle or My Battle/Fight) is exactly what it appears to be, a National Socialism manifesto. no, it's not worth spit but reading it for context on Hitler doesn't make one a NAZI. i've never read it. i may get around to it or not.he was identified as jew. a self hating jew!
Hitler made a nice chunk of change on the sales. didn't pay the taxes either then had the debt waived after he became chancellor. estimates vary but Hitler by the time he committed suicide in 1945 could have made as much as 10 million in total on sales. what is known is that by 1933 alone he'd made 1.2 million Reichsmarks, about 5 million euros in 2017 money.
interestingly, after becoming chancellor Hitler tried to distance himself from the book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf#Popularity
Popularity
Arabic edition of Mein Kampf
Although Hitler originally wrote Mein Kampf mostly for the followers of National Socialism, it grew in popularity after he rose to power. (Two other books written by party members, Gottfried Feder's Breaking The Interest Slavery and Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century, have since lapsed into comparative literary obscurity.)[22] Hitler had made about 1.2 million Reichsmarks from the income of the book by 1933 (equivalent to €5,139,482 in 2017), when the average annual income of a teacher was about 4,800 Marks (equivalent to €20,558 in 2017).[22][23] He accumulated a tax debt of 405,500 Reichsmark (very roughly in 2015 1.1 million GBP, 1.4 million EUR, 1.5 million USD) from the sale of about 240,000 copies before he became chancellor in 1933 (at which time his debt was waived).[22][23]
Hitler began to distance himself from the book after becoming chancellor of Germany in 1933. He dismissed it as "fantasies behind bars" that were little more than a series of articles for the Völkischer Beobachter, and later told Hans Frank that "If I had had any idea in 1924 that I would have become Reich chancellor, I never would have written the book."[24] Nevertheless, Mein Kampf was a bestseller in Germany during the 1930s.[25] During Hitler's years in power, the book was in high demand in libraries and often reviewed and quoted in other publications. It was given free to every newlywed couple and every soldier fighting at the front.[22] By 1939 it had sold 5.2 million copies in eleven languages.[26] By the end of the war, about 10 million copies of the book had been sold or distributed in Germany.[citation needed]
the rights to Mein Kampf are now in the public domain meaning anyone can publish it now. it would be interesting to see if anyone actually tries. bhahaaa
the book is not outright banned in Germany, neither is owning it. there are of course some restrictions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_K...t_availability
Current availability
At the time of his suicide, Hitler's official place of residence was in Munich, which led to his entire estate, including all rights to Mein Kampf, changing to the ownership of the state of Bavaria. The government of Bavaria, in agreement with the federal government of Germany, refused to allow any copying or printing of the book in Germany. It also opposed copying and printing in other countries, but with less success. As per German copyright law, the entire text entered the public domain on 1 January 2016, upon the expiration of the calendar year 70 years after the author's death.[51]
Owning and buying the book in Germany is not an offence. Trading in old copies is lawful as well, unless it is done in such a fashion as to "promote hatred or war." In particular, the unmodified edition is not covered by §86 StGB that forbids dissemination of means of propaganda of unconstitutional organizations, since it is a "pre-constitutional work" and as such cannot be opposed to the free and democratic basic order, according to a 1979 decision of the Federal Court of Justice of Germany.[52] Most German libraries carry heavily commented and excerpted versions of Mein Kampf. In 2008, Stephan Kramer, secretary-general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, not only recommended lifting the ban, but volunteered the help of his organization in editing and annotating the text, saying that it is time for the book to be made available to all online.[53]
A variety of restrictions or special circumstances apply in other countries.
how many here know that Hitler is not Adolf Hitler's real family name? it isn't. his father Alois Hitler Sr. was a bastard and as was common back in the day was forbidden from using his father's name, whoever that actually was. there is plenty of debate on who was his father. regardless, without being formally recognized he used his mother's maiden name.
Alois Schicklgruber
bahahhhaaaaaa.
he eventually petitioned the Austrian Government to recognize his stepfather's name as his own, Hiedler. in some fluke of record keeping it was misspelled as "Hitler".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hitler
Alois Hitler Sr. (born Alois Schicklgruber; 7 June 1837 – 3 January 1903) was an Austrian civil servant in the customs service, and the father of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany.
Alois Schicklgruber was born out of wedlock. His mother was Maria Schicklgruber, however his biological father remains a mystery. That uncertain parentage has led to claims that Alois's third wife, Klara (Adolf's mother), may have also been either Alois's first cousin once removed or his half-niece. Alois's unknown father also meant that Adolf Hitler himself could not prove the identity of his paternal grandfather was, and thus could not prove his own "Aryan descent" according to Nazi race laws. In 1876, Alois convinced the Austrian government to acknowledge his deceased stepfather Johann Georg Hiedler as his biological father. Alois then legally changed his last name to that of his stepfather's. However during this process, the Austrian authorities misspelled his name as "Hitler" for unknown reasons. This meant that Klara was legally recognized as Alois's first cousin once removed.[1]
Adolf Hitler's parents met in 1876. While Alois was still married to his second wife, he began an affair with Klara, whom he hired as a household servant. Their relationship continued in secrecy until Alois's wife died and Klara became pregnant which prompted Alois to marry her in 1885. According to a close friend, Alois was "awfully rough" with his wife Klara and "hardly ever spoke a word to her at home". Alois treated his children with similar contempt and he often beat them.[2][3]
so if events had turned out differently Adolf Hitler would have been known as Adolf Schicklgruber.
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