Reading mine kampf... Social Stigma?

Just checked Amazon, widely available on there although the hardbacks without pictures of Hitler or Swastikas on the cover are (perhaps understandably) a lot more expensive than the ones with the cover pictures.

listened to a bit on youtube, naturally he's not too fond of jews....but the bit I listened to was 'the jew is this' 'the jew is that' 'the jews are the cause of everything wrong' rant rant rant continuously about how awful jews are until it gets boring.

megaten wrote: »

Social Stigma? Even if anyone cared it's not like you have to announce to the world your reading it.

Yeah it's a bit attention seeking more than anything.

Pedant wrote: »

I bought a copy of Mein Kampf a couple of years ago in Hughes and Hughes. At the time I thought it'd be real awkward buying it on it's own. So I bought it alongside Karl Marx's Capital Volume One and Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, just to even things out and to avoid being perceived as a Nazi.

You should have got a pack of tissues and Vaseline, and winked at the cashier.

crazy cabbage wrote: »

Decided that i want to read Mein Kampf. I am not a nazi or anything like that. I just think it would be interesting to find out what was going through the mass murders head if that makes sence. Listen from the horses mouth instead of secondary sources and all that...

Question is: What would people think if they see me reading it? Is it fround upon? Has anyone else read it / would you recomend it.


Edit: Yes i do have to learn how to spell

It's a bit dull tbh.

But why someone would have any strong feelings about Mein Kampf and not... something like Mao's Red Book is completely beyond me.

I heard its pretty sh*tty writing though, like hes basically just whining the whole time. Hitler being a famous dictator doesn't mean his writting would be good.

Ah I remember Hitler like I just saw him yesterday...

It was 1940, in a makeshift war office in Ukraine. I had made it to Odessa by smuggling myself aboard a train from St Petersburg.

At 12 years old, and in the height of the war, I thanked god that I was thought German by the Polish Baron that raised me. It had gotten me out of many a run in with the German troops, who were uninterested in apprehending an orphan German boy.

I started running with a street gang of urchins, a pickpocket here, a loaf of bread there.
It kept us alive but it was no life. It was during one of my sortees to the market that I was cornered by some big German soldiers, who demanded to know my nationality.

I told them in perfect German that I was a Bavarian born orphan. I had been taken in by a kind woman who later married a man from Kiev, and they took me to study in Ukraine before the war due to my talent for languages. They asked who my adopting Father was, and I told them the name of some Ukraine SSR commander I had overheard being mentioned.

No sooner had I uttered his name, then I was dragged into custody. After 3 days waiting in a small makeshift cell in an occupied hotel, I was taken to meet the fuhrer himself.

He was interested in everything I knew about this Soviet commander, and his activity's. Having lied about it in the first place I began to spin a web of deceit that fascinated him.

Each night, for 6 weeks, I would fill his ears with scandals. He was so besotted with my information that he decided to take me to Germany with him.

For a month I spun my web, and Hitler became more and more entranced. He used to call me little Barbarossa, It wasn't until I was older that I understood what that meant.

My disinformation would eventually convince Him to march into Russia. Overstraining their resources and signalling the beginning of the end for the Nazi war machine.

It was during this period that I realised I had a talent for espionage, which helped guide me on my way to becoming the International man of mystery that I am today.

Sometimes, between missions. I like to take a bottle of brandy and mull over mein kampf. Imagining how Adolf himself would have spoken it, and, sighing with relief. I would tear a page from the book and cast it into the heart of the fire, and watch the most potent poison ever conceived, burn like so many lost heroes.