History YMMV / MeinKampf

* NarmCharm: In a really, ''really'' dark way, Hitler's teachings are maniacal and incoherent...but readers find the harsh and furious manner used to describe them attractive.

* NarmCharm: In a really, ''really'' dark way, Hitler's teachings are maniacal and incoherent...but the harsh and furious manner in which they are presented is described as attractive by those who read it.

* HarsherInHindsight: To a reader in the 1920s (even other nationalists 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 Today, it's a grim historical document, especially with his hostile tirades against Jews.

* HarsherInHindsight: To a reader in the 1920s (even by other nationalists 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 Today, it's a grim historical document, especially with his hostile tirades against Jews.

* CondemnedByHistory: When it was published in the 1920s, it was just seen as a [[{{Narm}} lousy]] piece of literature detailing the [[{{Wangst}} hilarious ravings of a madman]], even by other nationalists like UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini. With Nazism now seen as one of the ultimate evils of history, it is one of the most reviled books ever.

* HarsherInHindsight: To a reader in the 1920s, 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 Today, it's a grim historical document, especially with his hostile tirades against Jews.

* HarsherInHindsight: To a reader in the 1920s, the book would come off as the hilarious ramblings of a madman. Today, it's a grim historical document. His hostile tirades against the Jews are also seen in this light.

* CondemnedByHistory: When it was published in the 1920s, it was just seen as a lousy piece of literature detailing the hilarious ravings of a madman, even by other nationalists like UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini. With Nazism now seen as one of the ultimate evils of history, it is one of the most reviled books ever.

* CondemnedByHistory: When it was published in the 1920s, it was just seen as a lousy piece of literature, even by other nationalists like UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini. With Nazism now seen as one of the ultimate evils of history, it is one of the most reviled books ever.

* CondemnedByHistory: When it was published in the 1920s, it was just seen as a lousy piece of literature, even by other nationalists like Mussolini. With Nazism now seen as one of the ultimate evils of history, it is one of the most reviled books ever.

* {{Wangst}}: Hitler spends the entire book complaining about the world; it ends up reading like a whiny Website/MySpace page. However, Creator/GeorgeOrwell thought was [[TropesAreTools why]] ''[[TropesAreTools Mein Kampf]]'' [[TropesAreTools appealed to so many people]].

* {{Wangst}}: Hitler spends the entire book complaining about the world; it ends up reading like a particularly whiny Website/MySpace page. However, Creator/GeorgeOrwell thought this sense of victimhood was [[TropesAreTools why]] ''[[TropesAreTools Mein Kampf]]'' [[TropesAreTools appealed to so many people]].

* NightmareFuel: Underneath the poor writing, one can find the mindset of a man who would kill millions of people because of their race. Quite a few statements can chill the bones of those who read it.

* AcceptableTargets: Communists, liberals, social democrats, the wrong kind of conservatives, the wrong kind of Christians, pacifists, UsefulNotes/{{France}}, "degenerates", democrats in general, and of course the Jews.

* NightmareFuel: Underneath the poor prose, one can find the mindset of a man who would kill millions of people because of their race. Quite a few statements can chill the bones of those who read it.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Rather disturbingly, ''Mein Kampf'' has a following in [[https://www.jpost.com/international/jewish-rights-group-decries-sale-of-nazi-books-at-saudi-book-fair-585431 Saudi Arabia]] and [[https://www.mic.com/articles/120411/how-hitler-s-mein-kampf-became-a-bestseller-in-india India]], as well as other countries with high rates of antisemitism.
* HarsherInHindsight: To an individual reading the book in the 1920s, the book would come across as the hilarious ramblings of an incoherent madman. Today, it's a grim historical document. His virulent diatribes against the Jews are also seen in this light.

* ValuesDissonance: It's hardly surprising that a prominent work written by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, espousing his ideas and containing many prejudices that are not only outdated but extreme even for the time, would be offensive to modern-day people.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Rather disturbingly, ''Mein Kampf'' has a following in [[https://www.jpost.com/international/jewish-rights-group-decries-sale-of-nazi-books-at-saudi-book-fair-585431 Saudi Arabia]] and [[https://www.mic.com/articles/120411/how-hitler-s-mein-kampf-became-a-bestseller-in-india India]], as well as other countries with high rates of anti-Semitism.

** 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."

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Rather disturbingly, ''Mein Kampf'' has a following in [[https://www.jpost.com/international/jewish-rights-group-decries-sale-of-nazi-books-at-saudi-book-fair-585431 Saudi Arabia]] and [[https://www.mic.com/articles/120411/how-hitler-s-mein-kampf-became-a-bestseller-in-india India]], as well as other countries with high rates of anti-semitism.
* HarsherInHindsight: To an individual reading the book in the 1920s, the book would come across as the hilarious ramblings of an incoherent madman. Today, it's a grim historical document. His virulent diatribes against the Jews are also seen in this light.
* NightmareFuel: Underneath the poor prose, one can find the mindset of a man who would kill millions of people because of their race. Quite a few statements can chill the bones of those who read it.

* {{Wangst}}: Hitler spends the entire book complaining about the world; it ends up reading like a particularly whiny Website/MySpace page. However, Creator/GeorgeOrwell thought this sense of victimhood was [[TropesAreTools why Mein Kampf appealed to so many people]].
-->'''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.

* {{Wangst}}: Hitler spends the entire book complaining about the world; it ends up reading like a particularly whiny Website/MySpace page.

* 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.

* ValuesDissonance: It's hardly surprising that a prominent work written by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, espousing his ideas and containing many prejudices (see Acceptable Targets above) that are not only outdated but extreme even for the time, would fall prey to this.

* OvershadowedByControversy: Given this autobiography was written by none other than UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and exposits his political ideology, this was inevitable. It is worth mentioning that this autobiography was first published in 1925, eight years before Hitler became Führer, and [[HarsherInHindsight would not have been taken nearly as seriously in the 1920s as it is now]].

* 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.

* HarsherInHindsight: To an individual reading the book in the 1920s, the book would come as the hilarious ramblings of an incoherent madman. Today, it's a grim historical document. His virulent diatribes against the Jews are also seen in this light.

* HarsherInHindsight: To an individual reading the book in the 1920's, the book would come as the hilarious ramblings of an incoherent madman. Today, it's a grim historical document. His virulent diatribes against the Jews are also seen in this light.