Mein Kampf II
Hitler, Adolf
Mein Kampf II Hitler's Second E The Unpublished el to Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, edited by Gerhard L. Weinberg (Enigma Books, 300 pages, $32) Reviewed by Andrew Roberts T IS A LITTLE-KNOWN...
...The sequel was a volume on Nazi foreign policy...
...Or Hitler the left-wing sixties academic: "England needed markets and sources of raw materials for its goods...
...The conditions of its actual publication in 1958 are explained by Dr...
...in its virtually unassailable position by 1945 was clearly not one he could have appreciated 17 years earlier...
...But it took an impressively prophetic analysis to state that one day soon the U.S...
...The fact that [the United States] entered the battle," wrote Hitler rather perceptively about the Great War, "raised it in naval terms to the strength of England, but marked it in terms of world politics as a power of decisive significance...
...Gerhard Weinberg, has edited this publication and has produced many scholarly and invaluable annotations...
...That is the point of the English colonial policy...
...Why give the game away...
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...It was not published in German until 1961, and after an initial amateur, pirated edition decades ago, is only now being published in English in a fully annotated edition...
...Perhaps Hitler's own childlessness helped his ignorance in this regard...
...Total victory on the dictator's own terms is all that will be accepted...
...His own "life goal" is very obvious: "Any coalition of Powers that turns against Germany can from the outset depend on France," he states, and thus the destruction of France has to be the first duty of any chancellor of Germany...
...Certainly, his view that never-ending warfare is Mankind's sole foreseeable fate is not the view of a father...
...Or Hitler commending the spirit of 1776: "The farm boy who emigrated to America 150 years ago was the most determined and boldest in his village...
...Its strength lies in the quality of the individuals who form it...
...A people collectively is only a large number of more or less equal individual beings...
...Mein Kampf II Hitler's Second E The Unpublished el to Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, edited by Gerhard L. Weinberg (Enigma Books, 300 pages, $32) Reviewed by Andrew Roberts T IS A LITTLE-KNOWN FACT that in 1928 Adolf Hitler wrote a sequel to Mein Kampf...
...It was a significance that he himself seems to have forgotten when he made his romantic/lunatic gesture of declaring war in December 1941...
...One interesting lacuna in his thinking, which was clearly based on his own highly idiosyncratic reading of Social Darwinism, was that brave, strong Aryans could only possibly create further generations of brave, strong Aryans...
...for example, we are told that "In everyday life a person with a clear-cut life goal, which he strives to reach in all circumstances, will always be superior to others who are aimless...
...Suffice it to say that unlike some other "Hitler" manuscripts there is no doubt whatever as to the authenticity of this book, discovered in the United States as part of a captured Nazi archive...
...Although there is a great deal of the usual Hitlerian epithets in this book—"Anyone who does not wish to be the Andrew Roberts's latest book, Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership, is available via www...
...hammer will be the anvil in history"—there are also some aspects of the Fiihrer that might surprise readers...
...Only an utterly unappeasable will could have penned "Neither Border Policies nor Economic Policies nor Pan-Europe...
...Weinberg in his introduction...
...In the future," Hitler predicts, "the only state that will be able to stand up to North America will be the state that has understood how...to raise the racial value of its people and bring it into the most practical national form for its purpose...
...At issue is the general motorization of the world—a matter of immeasurable significance...
...It affords us the best glimpse—along with Mein Kampf, his table talk, and the verbatim accounts of his military conferences—into the diseased mind of the Fiihrer...
...And another: "There is a movement of devout adherents that wishes to counter the union of the American states with a European one, in order to prevent the hegemony of the North American continent...
...Here is one of Hitler's more acute predictions from 1928: "The size of the internal American market and its wealth of buying power...guarantee the American automobile industry internal sales figures that alone permit production methods that would simply be impossible in Europe...
...Small wonder that the closer Hitler got to power, the less he wanted this book to be published...
...The man who discovered the book back in 1958, the eminent German-JewishAmerican academic Dr...
...The notion that a generation might rebel against its predecessor by becoming soft and effete does not seem to have occurred to him...
...It isn'thard to see why a political pundit writing in 1928 would opine, "The pride of the English today is no different from the pride of the ancient Romans," since the British Empire then covered a fifth of the globe's land surface and comprised a quarter of its humanity...
...Here, for example, is Adolf Hitler the pacifist: "Wars that are fought for objectives that by their very nature cannot ensure the replacement of lost blood are an offense against the people and a sin against the future of the people...
...Thank God...
...This is particularly true of Americans, for much of this book is about the United States and the duty of the Nazi Party to prepare Europe for the coming clash the Fiihrer thought inevitable...
...Today Hitler's Second Book should be placed beside Mein Kampf on the shelves of anyone interested in the Second World War, its course as well as its causes...
...That form was, of course, a single European superstate under the ultimate political direction of the largest, most populous, hardest-working, and best geographically placed power: Germany...
...There is even something for those ghastly business management "how to" books about the Fiihrer's philosophy...
...When historians debate why Hitler declared war in December 1941 on a power that he must have appreciated was un-invadable by the Axis powers—and therefore unconquerable—all they need do is turn to chapter nine of this unremittingly polemical work...
...The irony that it was Hitler's own declaration of war that placed the U.S...
...would be the sole hegemonic power in the world...
...Or Hitler the platitudinous modern politician: "Politics is history in the making...
...Hitler's views on the "Anglo-Saxon peoples" is fascinating, and worth the price of the book...
Vol. 37 • April 2004 • No. 3
