Mein Kampf Chapter 2 Analysis

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Mein Kampf is an autobiography written by Adolf Hitler, who is considered to be one of the most hated people in the world. This was written at Hitler low point when he was in jail. When chapter 2 starts, Hitler does not show much hate for the Jewish population. He was just talking about his journey in Vienna and his pursuit of artistic studies. After he talks about the clear social class system that existed in the city at the time. Then he talks about some of his political views and it concludes with comments that are terrible about Jewish population. It frames the Jewish population as the people who are seeking power and wants to dominate the world. He believes that he is doing a favor for god by eliminating the Jewish population. The book …show more content…

In this chapter Hitler stated, “If the Marxist teaching were to be accepted as the foundation of the life of the universe it would lead to the disappearance of all order”. From this, you can tell that just because one person is slightly Jewish his ideas would be shut down by Hitler. Karl Marx himself was not even Jewish he was Christian but due to his Jewish Ancestors Hitler slandered him and his beliefs. Just because some Jewish people supported his beliefs he said in his book “ Should the Jew, with the aid of his Marxist creed, triumph over the people of this world, his Crown will be the funeral wreath of mankind, and this planet will once again follow its orbit through ether, without any human life on its surface, as it did millions of …show more content…

Even though there were 100,000 Jewish people who enlisted in the German army but roughly 5 times that amount enlisted in the Russian army. Also at the time some of the Russian Jewish population were deported and they were deported to Germany but many of those refugees refused to enlist for the Germans which can partially be thought of as why they were despised in the German society at the time. Also, there has been evidence of people thinking the Jewish people that the Jewish people at the time were profiteering.

This made them the perfect people for Hitler to hate on in his book they are the ideal target because they were doing very well at the time they do not support what Hitler wanted to do and there were many anti-semitic who did not like them and wanted to blame the loss of the first world war on someone. They were the ideal target and that is why they were depicted in such an awful manner in Mein

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