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Post by Leonid Govorov on Sept 14, 2017 8:19:45 GMT
Self-explainitory. Should people read Mein Kampf? |
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Post by stoic on Sept 14, 2017 8:52:55 GMT
I've read it twice in German and English. I don't think it is intellectually challenging or it poses any threat to independent minds. It is a sloppy philosophisng of the worst kind. I can't understand until now, how Germans (a very intelligent nation) could believe it for a moment.
There is a funny story in Otto Strasser's (he was younger brother of Georg Strasser, main rival of Hitler within Nazi party, who was killed in The Night of the Long Knives) memoirs.
Strasser was dining with several high-ranking Nazi officials at the 1927 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg when he was asked if he had ever read Hitler’s notorious treatise.
Strasser replied:
“I admitted having quoted some significant passages from it without bothering my head about the context. This caused general amusement, and it was agreed that the first person who joined us who had read Mein Kampf should pay the bill for us all. Gregor [Otto’s brother and a leading party member]’s answer was a resounding ‘No,’ Goebbels shook his head guiltily, Goering burst into loud laughter, and Count Reventlow excused himself on the ground that he had had no time. Nobody had read Mein Kampf, so everybody had to pay his own bill.”
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Post by Tadamichi Kuribayashi on Sept 14, 2017 12:57:01 GMT
Some people should definitely read Mein Kampf, other should clearly not.
Slap on an age restriction to keep little children from accidentally believing what Hitler says.
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Post by Hobo Joe on Sept 14, 2017 15:35:48 GMT
Anyone who's read it knows Hitler is an absolute nincompoop who came into power purely my accident.
His writings were horrible with impure grammar but that might be a dialectal thing, as he isn't High German.
His ideas were completely disconnected. He just hopped from one point to another. It is so bad, that I genuinely believe that his brain tumor wasn't the cause for his madness, but that he was born with some kind of lunacy.
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Post by The Light Bringer on Sept 14, 2017 16:13:56 GMT
Everybody should read mine kampf just to understand the other half of the history.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 16:22:24 GMT
Everybody should read mine kampf just to understand the other half of the history. But his view on race and the communits which i didnt like. I wont not read a book from Hitler |
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Post by The Light Bringer on Sept 14, 2017 16:47:41 GMT
Everybody should read mine kampf just to understand the other half of the history. But his view on race and the communits which i didnt like. I wont not read a book from Hitler You don't need to take it as your view or even feel good about reading it, it is like reading Marx's Capitalism, you need to understand to fully know what and how happened. |
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Post by Saltin on Sept 17, 2017 7:10:03 GMT
Some scholars, historians, possibly even some politicians and security agencies almost certainly have reviewed and investigated that book ad nauseum so as to peer into the mind's author and understand the motivations and thought process that drove a global catastrophy of an unprecedented scale in human history.
Not fully understanding an opponent or an ideology of any kind (no matter how despicable or repulsive it is) means you leave yourself somewhat vulnerable for the next round of similar danger(s) .
The average human imo doesn't need to read such work, it has almost no value relative to the mountain of other more worthy literature the world has produced.
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Post by The Light Bringer on Sept 17, 2017 12:19:11 GMT
Some scholars, historians, possibly even some politicians and security agencies almost certainly have reviewed and investigated that book ad nauseum so as to peer into the mind's author and understand the motivations and thought process that drove a global catastrophy of an unprecedented scale in human history. Not fully understanding an opponent or an ideology of any kind (no matter how despicable or repulsive it is) means you leave yourself somewhat vulnerable for the next round of similar danger(s) . The average human imo doesn't need to read such work, it has almost no value relative to the mountain of other more worthy literature the world has produced. That's what I meant, you explained it way better😉 |
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Post by lassalle on Sept 30, 2017 15:32:05 GMT
Waaaaaàaå ..who da flack gonna read that   humm, ya, fine, historians maybe. |
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