Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf (German for "My Struggle") is a book written by Adolf Hitler, combining elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology of Nazism.

The Sequel

After the party's poor showing in the 1928 elections, Hitler believed the reason for loss was that the public did not fully understand his ideas. He retired to Munich to dictate a sequel to Mein Kampf which focused on foreign policy, expanding on the ideas of Mein Kampf and suggested that around 1980, a final struggle would take place for world domination between the United States and the combined forces of Greater Germany and the British Empire.

Related Topics:
1928 - Munich - Foreign policy - 1980 - United States - British Empire

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Only two copies of the 200 page manuscript were originally made, and only one of these has ever been made public. Kept strictly secret under Hitler's orders, the document was placed in a safe in an air raid shelter in 1935 where it remained until its discovery by an American officer in 1945. The authenticity of the book has been verified by Josef Berg (former employee of the Nazi publishing house Eher Verlag), and Telford Taylor (former Brigadier General U.S.A.R., and Chief Counsel at the Nuremburg war-crimes trials). The book was never edited nor published during the Nazi Germany era, and remains known as "Zweites Buch" (Second Book). The "Zweites Buch" was first discovered in the Nazi archives being held in the United States by the German-born American historian Gerhard Weinberg in the late 1950s. Unable to find an American publisher, Weinberg turned to his mentor Hans Rothfels and his associate Martin Broszat at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich, who published "Zweites Buch" in 1961. The first authoritative English edition was not published until 2003 (Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf, ISBN 1929631162).

Related Topics:
Telford Taylor - Nazi Germany - Gerhard Weinberg - Hans Rothfels - Martin Broszat - Institute of Contemporary History - Munich - 2003

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