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* MisaimedFandom: It's not surprising that anti-Semites love this book. It is somewhat more surprising that anti-Semites who belong to other groups of people Hitler hated would. Summing up Hitler's writing in ''The Infernal Library'', a book about books by dictators, author Daniel Kalder observes that "Such is the book's power that its readers overlook the obvious implications for their races and extract from it what they want."
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* MisaimedFandom: It's not surprising that anti-Semites antisemites love this book. It is somewhat more surprising that anti-Semites antisemites who belong to other groups of people Hitler hated would. Summing up Hitler's writing in ''The Infernal Library'', a book about books by dictators, author Daniel Kalder observes that "Such is the book's power that its readers overlook the obvious implications for their races and extract from it what they want."
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* BrokenBase: Regarding the newer edition commentary. Some say it veers into ViewersAreMorons territory; others believe it is necessary, especially to not lose context on the era and situation of the time.
* FirstInstallmentWins: ''Mein Kampf'' is way better known than its sequel ''Zweites Buch'', but that's because the latter did not get published during Hitler's lifetime, while the former became a bestseller when Hitler came to power and everyone wanted to know what he thought. After the war ''many'' Germans said "Of course we ''owned'' a copy -- you could hardly avoid that. But I never actually ''read'' that dreck". Whether that is true in either the individual case or the aggregate (the book has been called the "most widely unread bestseller of the modern era") is now impossible to verify or falsify, given that most of the people in question are long dead.
* FirstInstallmentWins: ''Mein Kampf'' is way better known than its sequel ''Zweites Buch'', but that's because the latter did not get published during Hitler's lifetime, while the former became a bestseller when Hitler came to power and everyone wanted to know what he thought. After the war ''many'' Germans said "Of course we ''owned'' a copy -- you could hardly avoid that. But I never actually ''read'' that dreck". Whether that is true in either the individual case or the aggregate (the book has been called the "most widely unread bestseller of the modern era") is now impossible to verify or falsify, given that most of the people in question are long dead.
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* BrokenBase: Regarding the newer edition commentary. Some say it veers into ViewersAreMorons territory; others believe it is necessary, especially to not lose keep from losing context on the era and situation of the time.
* FirstInstallmentWins: ''Mein Kampf'' is way better known than its sequel ''Zweites Buch'', but that's because the latter did not get published during Hitler's lifetime, while the former became a bestseller when Hitler came to power and everyone wanted to know what he thought. After the war ''many'' Germans said things to the effect of "Of course we ''owned'' a copy -- you could hardly avoid that. But I never actually ''read'' that dreck". Whether that is true in either the individual case or the aggregate (the book has been called the "most widely unread bestseller of the modern era") is now impossible to verify or falsify, given that most of the people in question are long dead.
* FirstInstallmentWins: ''Mein Kampf'' is way better known than its sequel ''Zweites Buch'', but that's because the latter did not get published during Hitler's lifetime, while the former became a bestseller when Hitler came to power and everyone wanted to know what he thought. After the war ''many'' Germans said things to the effect of "Of course we ''owned'' a copy -- you could hardly avoid that. But I never actually ''read'' that dreck". Whether that is true in either the individual case or the aggregate (the book has been called the "most widely unread bestseller of the modern era") is now impossible to verify or falsify, given that most of the people in question are long dead.
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* HarsherInHindsight: To a reader in the 1920s (even other facists like UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini), the book would come off as the hilarious ramblings of a madman. Today, it's a grim historical document, especially with his hostile tirades against Jews.
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* HarsherInHindsight: To a reader in the 1920s (even other facists fascists like UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini), the book would come off as the hilarious ramblings of a madman. Today, it's a grim historical document, especially with his hostile tirades against Jews.
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-->'''George Orwell''': The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him. One feels it again when one sees his photographs—and I recommend especially the photograph at the beginning of Hurst and Blackett’s edition, which shows Hitler in his early Brownshirt days. It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, that he can’t win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that one sees turn upon some such theme.
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-->'''George Orwell''': The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him. One feels it again when one sees his photographs—and I recommend especially the photograph at the beginning of Hurst and Blackett’s edition, which shows Hitler in his early Brownshirt days. It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, [[Myth/GreekMythology Prometheus chained to the rock, rock]], the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon|Bonaparte}}, that he is fighting against destiny, that he can’t win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that one sees turn upon some such theme.
