Mein Kampf

CHAPTER XV After we had laid down our arms, in November 1918, a policy was adopted which in all human probability was bound to lead gradually to our complete subjugation. Analogous examples from history show that those nations which lay down their arms without being absolutely forced to do so subsequently prefer to submit to […]

CHAPTER XIV There are two considerations which induce me to make a special analysis of Germany’s position in regard to Russia. These are:(1) This may prove to be the most decisive point in determining Germany’s foreign policy.(2) The problem which has to be solved in this connection is also a touchstone to test the political

CHAPTER XIII The erratic manner in which the foreign affairs of the Reich were conducted was due to a lack of sound guiding principles for the formation of practical and useful alliances. Not only was this state of affairs continued after the Revolution, but it became even worse. For the confused state of our political

CHAPTER XII Owing to the rapid growth of the movement, in 1922 we felt compelled to take a definite stand on a question which has not been fully solved even yet.In our efforts to discover the quickest and easiest way for the Movement to reach the heart of the broad masses we were always confronted

CHAPTER XI The year 1921 was specially important for me from many points of view.When I entered the German Labour Party, I at once took charge of the propaganda, believing this branch to be far the most important for the time being. Just then it was not a matter of pressing necessity to cudgel one’s

CHAPTER X In the winter of 1919, and still more in the spring and summer of 1920, the young Party felt bound to take up a definite stand on a question which already had become quite serious during the War. In the first volume of this book I have briefly recorded certain facts which I

CHAPTER IX The strength of the Old State rested on three pillars: the monarchical form of government, the civil service, and the army. The Revolution of 1918 abolished the form of government, dissolved the army and abandoned the civil service to the corruption of party politics. Thus the essential supports of what is called the

CHAPTER VIII In the preceding Chapter, I mentioned the existence of a Co-operative Union between the German patriotic associations. Here I shall deal briefly with this question.In speaking of a co-operative union we generally mean a group of associations which, for the purpose of facilitating their work, establish mutual relations for collaborating with one another

CHAPTER VII In 1919-20 and also in 1921, I attended some of the bourgeois meetings. Invariably I had the same feeling towards these as towards the compulsory dose of castor oil in my boyhood days. It just had to be taken because it was good for one: but it certainly tasted unpleasant. If it were

CHAPTER VI The echoes of our first great meeting, in the Banquet Hall of the Hofbräu Haus on February 24th, 1920, had not yet died away when we began preparations for our next meeting. Up to that time we had to consider carefully the venture of holding a small meeting every month or at most

CHAPTER V The people’s state, which I have tried to sketch in general outline, will not become a reality in virtue of the simple fact that we know the indispensable conditions of its existence. It does not suffice to know what aspect such a State would present. The problem of its foundation is far more

CHAPTER IV If the principal duty of the national socialist People’s State be to educate and promote the existence of those who are the material out of which the State is formed, it will not be sufficient to promote those racial elements as such, educate them and finally train them for practical life, but the

CHAPTER III The institution that is now erroneously called the State generally classifies people only into two groups: citizens and aliens. Citizens are all those who possess full civic rights, either by reason of their birth or by an act of naturalization. Aliens are those who enjoy the same rights in some other State. Between

CHAPTER II Already in 1920-1921 certain circles belonging to the effete (decadent) bourgeois class accused our movement again and again of taking up a negative attitude towards the modern State. For that reason the motley gang of camp followers attached to the various political parties, representing a heterogeneous conglomeration of political views, assumed the right

CHAPTER I On February 24th, 1920, the first great mass-meeting under the auspices of the new movement took place. In the Banquet Hall of the Hofbräuhaus in Munich the twenty-five theses which constituted the programme of our new party were expounded to an audience of nearly two thousand people and each thesis was enthusiastically received.Thus