FOUR AND A HALF YEARS OF A STRUGGLE AGAINST LIES, STUPIDITY AND COWARDICE

Mein Kampf was actually not written by Adolf Hitler. Mein Kampf was dictated by Adolf Hitler to Rudolf Hess while Hitler paced in his prison cell between 1923 to 1924 in Landsberg. Mein Kampf includes Hitler’s thoughts at his youth, his early days in the Nazi party and also his ideas on politics, race and future of Germany. Hitler mostly divides the human race into categories that encompass physical appearance, culture, and what he calls the “Übermensch”, between many more. Hitler describes the perfect race (the Germanic/Aryan race) as a man with white pale skin, blue eyes, and blond hair. He assures that the Aryan race is the supreme form of human: the “Übermensch” and that “We must eliminate the disproportion between our population and our area. Some of this land can be obtained from Russia. We must secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitled". If there is a supreme human race, therefore there must also be other less supreme (Untermenschen) human; position that was often assigned to Jews, Slavs, Czechs, Poles and many more.

During Hitler’s youth he started to see the inconsistency of race, to have thoughts about pure humans or races, nationalism, and he familiarized with the theories of Karl Marx as well as other ideologies of so called “races” such as Jews. Hitler’s hatred grew colossaly after time passed and when Mein Kampf was published all of these revelations came to be known. The book explains how Hitler began to meet with Social Democrats, and how his mind contained a deep conflict about politics and again, his hate for Jews. Young Hitler began to idealize how Germany should be in its purest form, therefore given birth to ideas such as: race extermination, military plans, world domination, e...

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... only entity to comprise massive coercive power. The government should be able to define moral to the extent that the Constitution requires to.

As one can see, protection of the citizen morals is an obligation of formal government. Situations as the Holocaust should not come into existence again, since we are all one race, one world. Mein Kampf exhibits ideologies of mass destruction against humanity itself, and should be only used as a tool of guidance heading for preservation of the moral.

“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes”

― Adolf Hitler

References

Hitler, A. (1925). Mein Kampf. München: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachfolger.

Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anderson, M., Soderlund, L., & Brizee, A. (2010, May 5). General format. Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/