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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

My friend read mein kampf and he said that it had lots of surprisingly good points, but it would always take the conclusions a bit too far

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree, but also keep in mind most Mein Kampf translations are trash, some translators even outright lie about what Hitler wrote. The offical Stalag authorized version of Mein Kampf, published by the National Socialists would be the closest to what Hitler wished for Germany to become.

The thing is, one can not understand Hitler nor the National Socialists if you refuse to see what happened to Germany before Hitler came to power. How bad the economic burden was in Germany, how much land they lost. 60,000 suicides a year before Hitler came to power. The US has 30,000. The Germans were poor and starving and millions were homeless. Hitler at least restored order, that is something everyone accepts as a fact.

Yes, Hitler was anti-semitic, and yes, Hitler never wanted to start a war, he pushed 26 peace treaties to Britian and Poland, reasonable ones in fact, which Britian threatened Poland to refuse. Hitler's peace treaty on Danzig was quite reasonable but Poland refused. Read the story about Moses Hess written by his son Wolfe to get a better understanding about how badly Hitler and the NS's did not want to start a war. The war was waged not because of some hellbent dictator who wanted to take over the world like many modern authors like to suggest but because powers wished to destroy germany as a rising economic powerhouse in the middle of Europe. Germany invading Poland, a country which was ethnically cleansing ethnic Germans mind you, was a premptive attack. Soviet Archives have proven that the Soviet Union was planning on attacking Germany and all of Europe anyway. All of their bombers and armamants, weapons, vehicles indicate an offensive war, not defensive. Hitler knew this, and so didn't britian. It was only a matter of time.

As for Mein Kampf and the 25 points of National Socialism, some points I agree with others are a little out there. The erradication of foreign credit and high loans on the German people is reasonable, so isn't low interest loans for homes and the abolshing of these loans if you have 4 children. One point suggests the execution of profiteers, usurers, and money speculators, which today would mean all of wall street. Nevertheless, Hitler is one of, if not the most defamed and lied about persons in history. It doesn't matter if you hate him as a monster or judge him as a fallible human being, it is clear much of what is wrotten about him today is lies and half-truths.

And the craziest crap I have seen is Zionists claiming he was a Rothschild controlled opposition, which anyone who does a reasonable amount of research would know that this isn't true. I always ask why they push this narrative. Chrstopher Jon Bjerknes claims Hitler was a Zionist and a Bolshevik.

In the past I've only claimed Hitler was an anti-Semitic Zionist who wished to expell Jews to Africa, South America or Palestine. The BDS style Nazi posters concerning how Zionists would pillage Palestine illustrate that they knew that this emmigration to Palestine would cause havoc among the arab population. Their propaganda was not shy of illustrating this.

[–]useless_aether 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

i tried and found it so boring, i couldn't finish it.