Wednesday, March 11, 2020

mwin kampf a book review essays

mwin kampf a book review essays After some debate, I decided to tackle Mein Kampf by Adolph Hitler, which I thought would be interesting to review. I have read this book when I was fifteen, and I came to an understanding that in order to really understand this book, you have to read it mre than once. Mein Kampf, which translates as "My Struggle," is divided into two volumes. Volume One is titled "A Reckoning." Which poses a question, what is Hitler reckoning with? The book reveals that he is reckoning with reality, basically, and the fact that the Jews are in that reality. It seems that Hitler struggles with the Jewish topic when he was young, and that made him wonder if they were not ultimately going to be a cause for the destruction of the White race. He was convinced that the Jewish people were set apart only by religion and not race. Hitler voices his dislike for the Jewish people quite clearly when he says; "The fact that they had, as I believed, been persecuted on this account sometimes almost turned my dist aste at unfavorable remarks about them into horror." Hitler figured that the Anti-Semitic publications at the time were a result of jealousy towards these people, and in order to better educate himself, he began reading anti-Semitic pamphlets, and began to feel absolutely uncertain on where he stood on the iccue. "Moreover, the tone of most of these pamphlets was such that I became doubtful again, because the statements made were partly superficial and the proofs extraordinarily unscientific. For weeks, and indeed for months, I returned to my old way of thinking. The subject appeared so enormous and the accusations were so far-reaching that I was afraid of dealing with it unjustly and so I became again anxious and uncertain. Soon, he had no confusion about the issue when he says "In short time I was made more thoughtful than ever by my slowly rising insight into the type of activity carried on the Jews in certain fields. Was there any form of filth or...