My Struggle (Mein Kampf) - Adolph HitLer

My Struggle is a autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler.

Mein Kampf (German: [maɪ̯n kampf], My Struggle or My Fight) is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926. The book was edited firstly by Emil Maurice, then by Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess.

After Hitler's death, copyright of Mein Kampf passed to the state government of Bavaria, which refused to allow any copying or printing of the book in Germany. In 2016, following the expiration of the copyright held by the Bavarian state government, Mein Kampf was republished in Germany for the first time since 1945, which prompted public debate and divided reactions from Jewish groups.

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.) Hitler had made about 1.2 million Reichsmarks from the income of the book by 1933 (equivalent to €4,714,299 in 2009), when the average annual income of a teacher was about 4,800 Marks (equivalent to €18,857 in 2009).[19][20] 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).

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." Nevertheless, Mein Kampf was a bestseller in Germany during the 1930s. 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. By 1939 it had sold 5.2 million copies in eleven languages. By the end of the war, about 10 million copies of the book had been sold or distributed in Germany.

The arrangement of chapters is as follows:

Volume One: A Reckoning

Chapter 1: In the House of My Parents

Chapter 2: Years of Study and Suffering in Vienna

Chapter 3: General Political Considerations Based on My Vienna Period

Chapter 4: Munich

Chapter 5: The World War

Chapter 6: War Propaganda

Chapter 7: The Revolution

Chapter 8: The Beginning of My Political Activity

Chapter 9: The "German Workers' Party"

Chapter 10: Causes of the Collapse

Chapter 11: Nation and Race

Chapter 12: The First Period of Development of the National Socialist German Workers' Party

Volume Two: The National Socialist Movement

Chapter 1: Philosophy and Party

Chapter 2: The State

Chapter 3: Subjects and Citizens

Chapter 4: Personality and the Conception of the Völkisch State

Chapter 5: Philosophy and Organization

Chapter 6: The Struggle of the Early Period – the Significance of the Spoken Word

Chapter 7: The Struggle with the Red Front

Chapter 8: The Strong Man Is Mightiest Alone

Chapter 9: Basic Ideas Regarding the Meaning and Organization of the Sturmabteilung

Chapter 10: Federalism as a Mask

Chapter 11: Propaganda and Organization

Chapter 12: The Trade-Union Question

Chapter 13: German Alliance Policy After the War

Chapter 14: Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy

Chapter 15: The Right of Emergency Defense

Conclusion

Index