Mein Kampf

When Adolf Hitler came onto the scene, he claimed that he would be the best ruler that Germany had ever seen. He claimed that he would revert the country back to its once state of greatness. He would have been one of the greatest rulers of all time if he would not have started the Holocaust. It was not as if the people of Germany had no idea what Hitler was capable of. He wrote down all of the gruesome things he would do to create a pure race if he became a ruler. Hitler wrote Mein Kampf while he was in prison for treason committed after the First World War for five years. In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler explains the final solution to the Jewish problem. He outlines all of his plans in the book, and was a best seller in Germany.

Hitler believed that the human race was very similar to species of animals and we should behave as such. His basic ideologies explain why he was looking for war and his goals for Germany. Hitler believed that each race should mate with a similar race and get rid of races that were not the same. This prejudice he had explains why he would want to go to war with nearby countries. Ideally, Hitler would demolish every single race that was not his own. It would be impossible for him to get rid of all other races, so he picked the one that was least like the Aryans which were Jewish people.

Hitler, the leader of all of the Nazis, hated Jews and wanted to kill all of them. Hitler was a Catholic, but later grew up and didn’t believe in what Catholicism stated. He became Anti-Semitic, but still hated the Jews. He also blamed the loss of World War I on the Jews. This is how he built his idea of the Nazis attacking Poland and all his Jewish enemies. Hitler and the Nazis wanted to kill or torture all the Jews

In 1925, Adolf Hitler wrote a book that would forever change not only the history of Germany, but the history of Europe. This book became the manifesto of the Holocaust and Hitler 's reasoning for everything he did while he was in power. The title of the book is Mein Kampf which in English is translated to "My Struggle". Mein Kampf  is commonly known as Hitler 's justification and plan to wipe out the entire Jewish race. His irrational thoughts about Jewish people are seen throughout the text. Throughout Hitler 's book he displays his over whelming feelings of antisemitism and Aryan superiority. Hitler, in order to justify his hatred of

The Holocaust is a term that has come to describe the destruction of European Jewry from 1933 to 1945. In 1933, when the Nazis came to power, the Jews were their first target. According to some scholars such as Lan Kershaw claimed that Hitler’s involvement in day to day decision making was limited, infrequent and capricious. Kershaw points in his biography to 1919 that in Nazi Germany officials of both the German State and Party Bureaucracy usually took the initiative in initiating policy to meet Hitler’s perceived wishes and visions about future Germany. In Mein Kampf, Hitler highlights “I observed the man furtively and cautiously, but the longer I started at this foreign face, scrutinizing feature for feature, the more my first question assumed a new form: Is this German? This opened his eyes to the Jewish Question. Since then he saw that Jews ‘were not Germans of a special religion, but a people in themselves. He began to distinguish Jews race from German. In the letter Hitler wrote Ani-Semitism must lead to systematic removal of the rights of the Jew and its final aim must me the removal of Jews altogether”.

While there, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, or My Struggle, a auto-biography that described Hitler’s beliefs. Within the book, Hitler describes “history as the struggle between races for living space”. More specifically, he depicted the Jews as “an exceptional evil, working within the nation to subvert racial purity” (Chapter 11). The Jews were not the only victims subjected to his hatred. In Mein Kampf, Hitler discussed his birthland, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

He believed that the Aryan race should dominate over those who weren't as superior. He believed that the Jews were the polar opposite of the Jews, and referred to them as ''dirty, clever, without any true culture, a maggot, eternal blood suckers, repulsive, unscrupulous, monsters, foreign, the destroyer of Aryan humanity, and the mortal enemy of Aryan humanity.''(Mein Kampf - Britannica). He thought the Jews 'had lost all resemblance to Germans,' and asked 'was there any form of filth or profligacy [depravity], particularly in cultural life, without at least one Jew involved in it?' (The Final Solution - Earle Rice Jr.) Hitler no longer saw Jews as human, so as a result he wrote that getting rid of the Jews "must necessarily be a bloody process."(Mein Kampf - Britannica). Hitler also believed that getting rid of the Jews was part of “the sacred mission of the German people...to assemble and preserve the most valuable racial elements... and raise them to the dominant position.” (Mein Kampf - Britannica). This meant that to make the German's blood pure, he had to kill all the Jews, and rid them from the German culture, as they seemed to him like parasites leeching off their land, and that they clearly didn't belong. As many people bought Hitler's books, and read it, they too also believed in this philosophy, and as a result the Jews were isolated from

Everybody had a different perspective on the Jews. One perspective is, Hitler believed the Jews were horrible. He had also explained and convinced this to the Nazis by saying they were “back stabbing” people. For example, the text Adolf Hitler and Mein Kampf Excerpt from Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust” it states “..Germany had lost World War I through a “stab in the back” from its own government, which had allied itself with Jews. The Jews had so weakened the government that it had lost the will and the strength to fight.” The quote goes the show why Hitler and the Nazis have a hatred for the Jews. They explain and infer that they only reason why the Germans had lost World War 1 is because the Jews allied themselves with

The New York Times reports that Hitler’s infamous manifesto, Mein Kampf, containing his anti-semitic and discriminatory propaganda towards Jews in the Holocaust during WWII has become one of the best-selling books presently in Germany, boasting a great number of 85,000 copies already sold. Notorious for his systematic genocide of the Jews, Hitler’s Mein Kampf outlines his political philosophies and ideologies and also his future plans of eradicating the Jewish population from Germany, which he considered the reason for Germany’s impending loss of the war and its deteriorating economic state.

A central theme of Hitler’s thinking was the concept of struggle. In the nineteenth century the naturalist Charles Darwin had explained how in the world of nature when the environment changed some of the species with favourable variations survived better that others. Darwin called this “natural selection”.

The Holocaust was one of the biggest genocide in the world. Over 17 million people died in it mostly Jews. There where more things to The Holocaust World War 2, Hitlers rise to power, and Anne Franks Diary. These events all happened at the same time reflecting on one another. The Holocaust was one of the worlds worst events in history.

He thought that the jews could not do what the nazis could do. Hitler thinks that the jews can be convinced of anything if their emotions are manipulated. Hitler father stated that they have very little intelligence and are quite forgetful. This took place during periods preceding legislation or executive measures against Jews. Campaigns of propaganda created an atmosphere tolerant of violence against jews(http://www.ushmm.org)ibid.

Mein Kampf was crucial to Hitler’s political uprise. It was Hitler’s autobiography, made up of two volumes that contained two main purposes; to help him attract Nazi Party followers and to outline his devious plans for a greater, more powerful Germany (We Remember the Holocaust). He wrote the first volume while in Landsberg Prison in November 1923. He figured he needed to gain control of Germany and its surrounding countries a slightly different way after he was arrested for his partake in the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed attempt to take over the government of Bavaria. Hitler wrote the second volume the following year, during his gradual dictatorial uprise. The first volume was eventually published on July 18, 1925, and the second volume was published the year after (britannicaschool.eb).

As Hitler was imprisoned he had spare time, time to write a book named mein kampf. Mein kampf originally had a different name at one time, Mein kampf also talks about how the Aryan race is more superior to others, the military tactics involved with Mein kampf, and also in mein kampf he talks about how Jews are a lower power than others

For my research project, I have chosen to investigate Adolf Hitler and how he came to despise the Jewish race. My thesis question for this project is “What lead to Hitler’s desire to exterminate the Jews in Europe?”. For this investigation, two sources that have been of help to me are both Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and World War II: a definitive visual history by Alison Sturgeon. The book Mein Kampf is an original source document written by Adolf Hitler and translated by James Murphey. Mein Kampf was published in 1995 by Franz Eher Nachfolger in Germany. Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany from 1934-1945. The purpose of this book is the provide insight into Hitler’s first hand thoughts and to share them with the public. In the author’s notes in Mein Kampf, Hitler says the following… “After years of uninterrupted labour it was now possible for the first time to begin a work which many had asked for and which I myself felt would be profitable for the Movement. So I decided to devote two volumes to a description not only of the aims of our Movement but also of its development. There is more to be learned from this than from any purely doctrinaire treatise.” Hitler wrote this book while incarcerated due to his attempt in overthrowing the German government in 1923. This source is valuable because it is a look into Hitler’s actual thoughts and this is important because my historical investigation requires a look into why Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews in Europe and