1945. Gli eventi precipitano e un'ombra sempre più cupa si allunga sul destino della Germania nazionalsocialista. Adolf Hitler rivolge ai suoi uomini e a sé i discorsi definitivi: considerazioni su ciò che è stato e ciò che potrà essere - dopo la propria fine, ormai percepita come una certezza.

La politica, la guerra, lo stato. L'arte, l'uomo, il destino. Una scelta di considerazioni del fondatore del Nazionalsocialismo, dal 1925 al 1945, estratte dalle sue opere principali, dai discorsi pubblici e dai colloqui privati.

MEIN KAMPF is perhaps the only notable work written in two volumes by Adolf Hitler, in 1924. Hitler was arrested when he took out a mass demonstration in favour of national unity for the formation of a socialist German state. He was tried by the People's Court in Munich and subsequently, imprisoned for thirteen months where he wrote the first volume. The second volume was written after he was released.

He was highly influenced by two people, who were apparently the main architects of his mental aberration. One was Dr. Leopold Porsch, who taught him German Political History, and the other was Dr. Jorg Lanz Van Liebenfels, a defrocked monk who founded the Temple of the New Order, and whose theories stated that `the world belonged to the fair skinned and the superior Aryan race, and all others belonged to sub human culture.'

Mein Kampfwill give you an insight into one of the greatest evil geniuses of the last century; his political ideals, his beliefs and motivation, and his struggle to consolidate Germany into one great nation, and a Nazi-Third Reich.

The terror and the brutal treatment he unleashed during his years of power can be best said in his own words: '...Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dread...'

This great tyrant will go down in the history of the world. And all those who lived through the holocaust will shudder to think that such a man was ever born, and fervently wish that such a history would never repeat itself.

Includes internarionally acclaimed film Hitler: A Career Directed by Joachim C. Fest and Christian Herrendoerfen.

Joachim C. Fest's film, made in 1977, documents the Hitler period and attempts to give a rational and concrete account of that epoch. It also provides a basis for judgment. The film cannot change German history, it does not glorify it either. It does however illuminate it, especially for those who can no longer imagine what it was like.

None of the scenes in this film were reconstructed. They are without exception taken from authentic film and sound materials, original evidence from the Nazi period. This is also the case with the unusual and largely unknown sequences in colour. The film was compiled from more than 300,000 fect of film material, including many incomplete or unreleased scenes from German and foreign archives. Many unusual sequences come from private collections as well.

Book Description In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet to be called Settling Accounts. In it he intended to attack the ineffectiveness of the dominant political parties in Germany which were opposed to the new National Socialists (Nazis). In November 1923, Adolf Hitler was jailed for the abortive Munich Beer Hall putsch along with men willing and able to assist him with his writing. With the help of these collaborators, chief among them Rudolf Hess, the pamphlet became a book. Settling Accounts became Mein Kampf, an unparalleled example of muddled economics and history, appalling bigotry, and an intense self-glorification of Adolf Hitler as the true founder and builder of the National Socialist movement. It was written in hate and it contained a blueprint for violent bloodshed. When Mein Kampf was published in 1925, it was a failure. In 1926 a second volume appeared - it was no more successful than the first. People either laughed at it or ignored it. They were wrong to do so. As Hitler's power increased, pressure was put on all party members to buy the book. Gradually this pressure was extended to all elements of the German population. Soon Mein Kampf was even being passed out to newlywed couples as a gift. Ironically, and frighteningly, by the time Hitler came to power on January 30, 1933, what has been considered by many to be the most satanic book ever written was running neck and neck with the Bible at the top of the German bestseller lists. In his excellent introduction to this definitive American translation of Mein Kampf, Konrad Heiden writes: 'For years Mein Kampf stood as proof of the blindness and complacency of the world. For in its pages Hitler announced -- long before he came to power -- a program of blood and terror in a self-revelation of such overwhelming frankness that few among its readers had the courage to believe it ... That such a man could go so far toward realizing his ambitions, and -- above all -- could find millions of willing tools and helpers; that is a phenomenon the world will ponder for centuries to come.' We would be wrong in thinking that such a program, such a man, and such appalling consequences could not reappear in our world of the present. We cannot permit our selves the luxury of forgetting the tragedy of World War II or the man who, more than any other, fostered it. Mein Kampf must be read and constantly remembered as a specimen of evil demagoguery that people whenever men grow tired of thinking and acting for themselves. Mein Kampf is a blueprint for the age of chaos. It transcends in historical importance any other book of the present generation. In his translation Ralph Manheim has taken particular care to give an exact English equivalent of Hitler's highly individual, and often awkward style, including his occasional grammatical errors. We believe this book should stand as the complete, final, and definitive English version of Hitler's own story of his life, his political philosophy, and his thwarted plans for world domination. Translated by Ralph Manheim with an introduction by Konrad Heiden. A compilation of Hitler's most famous prison writings of 1923--the bible of National Socialism and the blueprint for the Third Reich.

Norman Baynes (1877-1961) translates sections of Hitler's speeches that display the form in which National Socialist propaganda was first presented to the German people, and illustrate Hitler's ideas about the program of the party, the Putsch, the model revolution, the abolition of classes, and the Jews. The passages are excerpted from The speeches of Adolf Hitler published by Oxford University Press in 1942. No index is provided. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Pubblicazione contestata e a suo tempo ritirata dal commercio. Senza prefazioni nè postfazioni, solo il manifesto del Fuhrer.

Although this monumental book was first ignored, it was a significant warning to the world for it contained an outline of Hitler's plans for his rise to power