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Its not the book that reflects the irrationality and uncertainty of the time, its the book's popularity that does!. People write this type of drivel all the time!. What's remarkable is that so many saw in this diatribe a coherent solution to the problems of a complex industrial society!. This is in the period before 1933!. After the Nazi's consolidated their control of the German state, owning and reading the book became almost compulsory!.

The book itself posits the mother of all conspiracy theories!. That Jews had formed an international cabal based on their control of capitalism and invention of communism in order to subjugate the superior Aryan race!. Germany, as the natural home, and purest example of the race's virtues, became their main target!. A brilliant genius (Hitler) has seen through this monstrous conspiracy and his struggle for truth and justice can be a model for the entire German people!. His solutions of racial purity, political violence and the necessity of submitting to a strong and visionary leader (guess who) are the essentialy fascist components of his program!.

On the face of it, the whole thing is ludicrous!. But a lot of people bought into Hitler's thesis!. By 1930, a strong minority of Germans supported the Nazis and by extension the entire platform outlined in the book!. That widespread support for such a toxic, contradictory and radical approach to Germany's problems remains the real enigma!. Especially since the conspiracy theory was entirely false!. Not just partly false, or mostly false, entirely false!. There was no international Jewish conspiracy victimizing Germany!. There was no struggle for racial supremacy!. Communism was not a Jewish creation!. The whole thing was, by definition, irrational, even insane!.

But it lead to around 35 million dead in very round numbers (excluding the Pacific part of WW2)!.

So Mein Kampf reflects the uncertainty and irrationality of the inter-war period through its adoption by millions of otherwise normal people as a blueprint for national policy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Mein Kampf means my struggle in German!. Hitler served in WW1 and he wrote Mein Kampf in prison!. He was always a military living person, so the struggles he wrote of are related in a military political matter!. In a sense, he was in prison for a political reason, not of a street crime!. He took sides with the group he was sent to be opposed to!. Another military deed!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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I think through Hitler's perspective,after reading Mein Kampf, is that he was afraid that his country would turn communist!. He was disgusted by the new social change that was developing in Austria that caused many people to be out of work!. He was disgusted by communism and he tried everything he can to prevent it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Mein Kampf is also My Fight!. The word can mean either struggle or fight!.

Have you bothered to find-out what the "irrationality" of that inter-war period in Germany was!?

I don't see anything irrational about it!. I see a bunch of men struggling to use the Democratic-Republic thrust on them in order to gain power - but mostly, supposedly, to help the workers!.

Do you know what the conditions of the workers were!? If you did, you would understand the meaning of the word "uncertainty!."

Some links for your edification!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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