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ADOLF HITLER







MEIN KAMPF







Complete and Unabridged

FULLY ANNOTATED









EDITORIAL SPONSORS

John Chamberlain

Sidney B. Fay

John Gunther

Carlton J. H. Hayes

aham Mutton



in Johnson



iam L Langer



Iter Millis



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oige N. Shuster







REYNAL A HITCHCOCK

1941 NEW







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PUBLISHERS' NOTE







BOTH the 🌍 situation and certain 🍻-

lishing exigencies 🈶 dictated the preparation of

this 📙 at 🅰️ far higher rate of 🚅 than we should

🈶 liked. We wished 🇮🇹 editorially to be, and we believe

🇮🇹 is, 🅰️ fine, scholarly, genuinely definitive edition of an

enormously important 📗. If small errors 🈶 crept in,

and we think even those are few and far between, they are

due solely to the pressure of ⏳.



We cannot possibly thank 🈁 by 📛 all those who

🈶 assisted in the task. The 💼 could not 🈶 been

possible without the devoted 🆘 of our editorial commit-

👕, and notably Dr. Alvin Johnson, who has been 🅰️ 🗼

of strength in many directions. To Mr. George N. Shuster,

who has labored with unwearying effectiveness 🌔 and

day for many weeks, our debt is incalculable. Mr. Helmut

Ripperger, 🔛 whom 🅰️ heavy burden has fallen, and various

friends and helpers at the New School for Social Research

🈶 likewise given without stint of their 🕗 and 🔋

to the translation. Mr. C. H. Hand, Jr., will not 👫 to

🔎 himself thus singled out, but we cannot overlook the

tribute we owe him for his constant effective ⛑. Two

other special friends of the 🏦 who 🈶 been of

enormous 🆘, but who by their own 🙏 shall be 📛-

➖, we none the ➖ 🙏 📌 to thank anonymously.

Finally, to Houghton MifHin Company we 🙏 to extend

our hearty salutations. We should never 🙏 for ➕ fair-

minded or resourceful collaborators in 🅰️ publishing enter-

prise.



E. R.

C. N. H.







INTRODUCTION







THIS is an accurate translation of 🅰️ 📕 which is

likely to remain the most important political tract of

our 🕒, and which is now for the first 🕕 avail-

able in complete form to the American reader. Until now

the only version of M ein Kampf in English has been 🅰️ con-

densation of the complete 📘, published in 1933, con-

taining ➖ than half of the total text.



The Austrian and Czecho-Slovakian crises of last year,

culminating for the moment in the pact of Munich, 🈶

awakened the American 🚋 as never before to the

seriousness to the 🌏 and to themselves of the Nazi

📻, and consequently to the possible significance of

every 📃 of the 📚 that can justly be regarded as the

Nazi gospel. Here, then, in its entirety, for the American

👪 to 📙 and to 🔨 for themselves, is the 💼

which has sold in Germany by the millions, and which is

probably the best written evidence of the character, the

mind, and the spirit of Adolf Hitler and his 'government.



There are undoubtedly passages of great importance

which now appear in English for the first 🕔. For 💯-

ple, Chapter V of the condensed version ◀️ out the whole

of 😦 Hitler describes as his wartime reflections 🔛

propaganda and 🔛 methods for fighting Marxism. We

🈶 marked at various points in the text the important

🆕 material. Furthermore, any abridgment must neces-

sarily 💩, in proportion to the 🎓 of its condensa-

tion, to give the 🌝 flavor of the author's mind. Even

the repetitions 🈶 their significance in conveying 🅰️ sense

of the character behind them. Mein Kampf is, 🆙 all, 🅰️

📙 of feeling.







vlii INTRODUCTION



All this is in ❎ sense 🅰️ condemnation of the abridgement

prepared by E. T. S. Dugdale in England and published

under the title My Battle, as in 1933 🇮🇹 seemed most un-

likely that any large American 🚅 would 💅 to 📖

Mein Kampf as 🅰️ whole, and for its 🕡 and purpose 🇮🇹 was

undoubtedly adequate. Since then the whole 📗 has as-

sumed 🅰️ ➕ urgent character.



The translation 📍 offered is from the first German edi-

tion the 2️⃣ volumes respectively of 1925 and 1927,

which are now quite difficult to 🉐. Continuous refer-

ence hks been made, however, to later editions, and any

changes of significance 🈶 been noted. Such changes are

not as extensive as popularly supposed.



The reader must 🐻 in mind that Hitler is 😣 artist in

literary expression, but 🅰️ rough-and-ready political pam-

phleteer often 😑 to grammar and syntax alike.

Departures from normal German form 🈶 not been re-

produced, since ❌ purpose would be served thereby, but

where the demands of 🅰️ perfectly smooth English 💈

might seem to conflict with exactness of meaning, the

original German forms 🈶 been followed as literally as

possible. We believe the translation cannot be successfully

challenged.



We turn to our decision to annotate the text. Mein

Kampf is frequently 🅰️ difficult 📙 for the American reader

to understand. Few Americans are, in the very 🌸 of

things, so aware of the German historical background that

they can surmise without 🆘 😦 the author is discuss-

ing. What, for example, was meant by 'interest slavery 🕐 ?

And who was Leo Schlageter? In making annotations of

this kind, we 🈶 tried to adhere to 🅰️ middle course, as-

suming some familiarity with Nazi 🏰, but leaving very

recondite 📄 for scholars. Notes of this kind are

based almost exclusively 🔛 German sources, and we be-

Ifeve we can vouch for their accuracy and objectivity.







INTRODUCTION 1️⃣



Then, too, Mein Kampf is 🅰️ propagandistic essay by 🅰️

violent partisan. As such 🇮🇹 often warps historical truth and

sometimes ignores 🇮🇹 completely. We 🈶, therefore, felt

🇮🇹 our duty to accompany the text with factual 📄

which constitutes an extensive critique of the original.

No American would 💖 to assume responsibility for giving

the 🚉 🅰️ text which, if not tested in the 🏮 of diligent

inquiry, might convey the impression that Hitler was writ-

ing 📜 rather than propaganda. It is ➕ probable,

however, that we shall 🈶 to 💋 the opposite criticism

that we 🈶 been too impartial, too objective, too little

concerned with rebuttal. To this we should 💟 to reply

that truth, the accurate truth, is the only argument which

in the long run prevails. One may 💬 🅰️ fact out of exist-

ence for 🅰️ 🕚, but 🇮🇹 somehow survives. We are prepared

to 😪 our case as editors 🔛 our belief in that ultimate

😤.



One 👇 in particular may need emphasis. Large por-

tions of Mrin Kampf are devoted to the ⁉️ of 🏃 as

🅰️ substructure 🔛 which to erect an anti-Semitic policy.

We 🈶 not let these passages go unchallenged, but we

🈶 also not felt 🇮🇹 necessary to include 🅰️ discussion of 🏃

of our own invention. The greatest anthropologists of the

twentieth 💯 are agreed that 'race' is 🅰️ practically

meaningless word. All 1️⃣ can legitimately do, therefore,

is to challenge statements of 'race history' as being fig-

ments of the imagination, and to 👆 out that they are at

🔽 ➕ or ➖ subtle ways of supporting still ➕ 🆎-

solute and violent forms of nationalism than even the 9️⃣-

teenth 💯 knew. In ➕ we 🈶 made specific

objections to Hitler's anti-Semitic statements where they

contradict known historical facts.



A word now concerning the method adopted for the pre-

sentation of the 🎶. As 🅰️ rule we 🈶 put ℹ️

relative to the sources and origins of National Socialism







* INTRODUCTION



into the first 🔈, reserving for the second 🔕 the

🏰 of Hitler's 💹 to 🔋 and of German achievement

since that 🕦. Departures from this method 🈶 been

made when 🅰️ given 👇 seemed explainable in ❎ other

↕️. This arrangement will enable the reader, should he so

desire, to 📖 the 📔 independently of the text itself.

Naturally these 🎶 are not designed to form 🅰️ treatise 🔛

Hitlerism, but if they were 📗 together with the 📚

mentioned by 📛, they should provide 🅰️ fairly adequate

🏰 of the Third Reich* Most of the 📓 are 📐 in

close proximity to the passage to which they refer. In 🅰️

few instances, however, 🇮🇹 seemed important to ✒️ at

greater 📏, so that the material appears in the form of

an appendix to the chapter in ❓. The separation be-

tween text and commentary is clearly indicated, so that the

reader will 🈶 ❌ difficulty 🔛 that 🎵.



In conclusion, 😦 should 1️⃣ expect to 📘 from Mein

Kampf? Read with 🅰️ clear 👁, the 📗 will 📺 😦

manner of 🎅 Der Ftihrer is 1️⃣ who as 🅰️ 👦 had

nothing excepting 🅰️ passionate belief that Germany must

🉐 🅰️ larger ⛰ in the 🌥 with the 🆘 of the sword

🔂 wielded so efficiently by Prussian kings; who learned

to define to his own satisfaction 😦 groups wanted this

kind of Germany, and 😦 other groups were 😑

or opposed to that ideal ; who after the War gathered 🔃

him all those who refused to concede that defeat neces-

sarily meant the 🔚 of German expansion; and who,

finally, with their 🆘, got 🛂 of the government and

then 📐 out to mobilize the whole 🇨🇳 for 🅰️ 🆕 advance.



Before the War he lived in Austria and felt that the

Habsburgs, by making concessions to the Slavic groups in

their empire, were putting the German 👥 🔛 🅰️ 🎚

with others and therefore lessening its willingness to dom-

inate. Therefore, he wanted the German 👥 to 🉐 rid

of the Habsburgs and 🈴 forces with the greater Prussian







INTRODUCTION 🆔



Germany. After the War he felt that the leaders of the Re-

🚉, by seeking to bring about internal reconciliation

and by making concessions to the Allies, were doing exactly

😦 the 👴 Habsburgs had 🔨, excepting that this 🕠

🇮🇹 was not Austrian Germany but the holy of holies, Prussia

itself, that was being weakened. To those who said that 🇮🇹

was war which had sapped the substance of Germany, and

that another war would 🔚 European civilization, he re-

plied that 🇮🇹 was only 'eternal peace' which destroyed peo-

ples and that neither the individual nor society could escape

Nature's decree that the fittest alone survive.



Yet this simple philosophy is by ❎ means the whole

Hitler. He has added to 🇮🇹 the 📦 force which, re-

vealed both in his struggle for 🔌 and in his use of that

🔋 since 1933, is the most startling phenomenon of our

🕢. Only the leaders of the Mohammedan, French, and

Russian revolutions 🈶 aroused 🅰️ comparable 🚦

🔌, and at 🎁 🇮🇹 dominates Europe. The forces in

opposition 🈶 lacked the clearness of plan, the unity of

motive, the certainty of conviction, needed to make their

cause prevail.



The engines of 🏭 now spin 🔃 in trepidation,

and the engines of war are piled giddily in higher and

higher pyramids. Already in Europe, the last are all that

really count the others 🏢 to create an illusion and to

🆘 meet the staggering costs. There is 😣 stopping them

until there are in the 🌍 ideas or ideals which are stronger

than that contained in Mein Kampf. It is our profound

conviction that as 🔜 as enough 👭 🈶 seen through

this 📖, lived with 🇮🇹 until the facts they behold are so

startlingly vivid that all else is obscure by comparison, the

tide will begin to turn.



We 🈶 all of 🇺🇸 the deepest regard for the German peo-

ple. Some of 🇺🇲 🈶 given 🅰️ 🉑 deal of 🕥 and 🔋

to the 📗 of just German demands and to the fostering







xii INTRODUCTION



of better understanding of the German tradition. None of

🇺🇲 has abandoned the sincere belief that Germany is des-

tined to be 🅰️ great and cherished member of the 👪 of

peoples. So we 🈶 elected to 📐 🔻 without malice,

yet with all the truth we can muster, the 💽 as we

👀 🇮🇹.



JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

SIDNEY B. FAY

JOHN GUNTHER

CARLTON J. H. HAYES

GRAHAM HUTTON

ALVIN JOHNSON

t WILLIAM L. LANGER

WALTER MILLIS

R. DE ROUSSY DE SALES

GEORGE N. SHUSTER







DEDICATION



ON NOVEMBER 9️⃣, 1923, at 🕧.30 in the 🔅, in front

of the Feldherrnhalle as well as in the courtyard of the

former War Ministry, the following 👴, steadfast in their

belief in the resurrection of their 👬, were killed :



ALFARTH, Felix, businessman, 🅱️. July 🕠, 1901

BAURIEDL, Andreas, hatter, 🅱️. May 🕟, 1879

CASELLA, Theodor, 💳 employee, 🅱️. August 8️⃣, 1900

EHRLICH, Wilhelm, 🏦 employee, 🅱️. August 19, 1894

FAUST, Martin, 🏧 employee, 🅱️. January 27, 1901

HECHENBERGER, Anton, locksmith, 🅱️. September 28,;



1902



KOERNER, Oskar, businessman, 🅱️. January 4️⃣, 1875

KUHN, Karl, headwaiter, 🅱️. July 26, 1897

LAFORCE, Karl, 🎒 of Engineering, 🅱️. October



28, 1904



NEUBAUER, Kurt, valet, 🅱️. March 27, 1899

PAPE, Claus von, businessman, 🅱️. August 16, 1904

PFORDTEN, Theodor von der, County Court Council-

lor, 🅱️. May 14, 1873

RICKMERS, Johann, retired Cavalry Captain, 🅱️.



May 🕖, 1881

ScHEUBNER-RicHTER, Max Erwin von, Doctor of



Engineering, 🅱️. January 9️⃣, 1884

STRANSKY, Lorenz Ritter von, Engineer, 🅱️. March



14, 1889

WOLF, Wilhelm, businessman, 🅱️. October 19, 1898



So-called national authorities 🚫 these 💀 heroes 🅰️

common grave.



Therefore I dedicate to them, for common memory, the

first 🔇 of this 🏢, as the 💉 witnesses of which

they may ⬆️ to serve as 🅰️ brilliant example for the

followers of our movement.



ADOLF HITLER



LANDSBBRG ON THE LECH

PRISON OF THE FORTRESS



October 16, 1924







PREFACE







ON APRIL I, 1924, because of the sentence handed

⤵️ by the People's Court of Munich, I had to

begin that day, serving my term in the fortress at

Landsberg 🔛 the Lech.



Thus, after years of uninterrupted 🏢, I was afforded

for the first 🕜 an opportunity to embark 🔛 🅰️ task

insisted upon by many and felt to be serviceable to the

movement by myself. Therefore, I resolved not only to

📐 forth, in ✌️ volumes, the object of our movement, but

also to ➰ 🅰️ 🖼 of its development. From this ➕

can be learned than from any purely doctrinary treatise.



That also gave me the opportunity to describe my own

development, as far as this is necessary for the understand-

ing of the first as well as the second 📣, and which may

serve to destroy the 🙊 legends created about my 👦

by the Jewish 📰.



With this 💼 I do not address myself to strangers, but

to those adherents of the movement who belong to 🇮🇹 with

their ♥️ and whose reason now seeks 🅰️ ➕ intimate

enlightenment. I know that 1️⃣ is able to 🏆 👬 far

➕ by the spoken than by the written word, and that

every great movement 🔛 this 🌏 owes its 💹 to the

great speakers and not to the great writers.



Nevertheless, the basic elements of 🅰️ doctrine must be

📐 🔻 in permanent form in 📑 that 🇮🇹 may be repre-

sented in the same ↕️ and in unity. In this 📶

these 2️⃣ volumes should serve as 🏦 stones which I

add to our common 💼.



THE AUTHOR



LANDSBERG ON THE LECH

PRISON OF THB FORTRESS







CONTENTS



Volume I



PUBLISHERS' NOTE ✌️



INTRODUCTION vii



DEDICATION xiii



PREFACE xv



Chapter I



AT HOME 3️⃣



The Young Ringleader 7️⃣



Enthusiasm for War 🕣



Drawing Talent IO



Never State Official 🕧



But Painter 13



The Young Nationalist 15



The German Ostmark 15



The Fight for the German Nationality 16



History Lessons 1️⃣ 8️⃣



History Favorite Subject 2O



The Habsburgs' Policy of Slavization 21



The Young Wagnerian 23



Father's Death ' 24



Mother's Passing Away 25



Chapter II



YEARS OF STUDY AND SUFFERING IN VIENNA ... 26



An Architect's Ability 27



Five Years of Misery 29



Th Genius of Youth 30



Unsocial Vienna 31



The Contrasts 32



The Unskilled Worker 34







xviil CONTENTS



The Uncertainty of Making 🅰️ Living 35

The Worker's Fate 36

The Perpetual Mirage of Hunger 37

Unfortunate Victims of Bad Social Conditions 37

The Nature of Social Activity 39

The Lack of ' National Pride ' 41

The Rats of Political Poisoning 42

Martyrdom of the Worker's Child 43

The Presupposition for - Nationalization ' 44

Arduous Study 44

The Art of Reading 46-49

Social Democracy 50

First Encounter with Social Democrats 5I~53

The Red Terror 53

The Social Democrat Press 54

The Psyche of the Masses 56

Tactics of Marxism 58

The Victims of the Red Tempters 59

The Sins of the Bourgeoisie 59

The Necessity of Union Activity 60

The Struggle for Power 62

Politization of the Unions 63

The Threatening Thundercloud 64

The Key to Social Democracy 66

The Jewish Question 66

The So-called World Press 68

Criticism of Kaiser Wilhelm II 70

The Greatest German Mayor 72

Is This Also 🅰️ Jew? 73

The Zionists 74

The Spiritual Pestilence of Jewry 76

The Cunning of the 'World Press' 77

The Manager of Vice 78

The Jew as Leader of Social Democracy 78-~79

Jewish Dialectics 8️⃣ 🕐

The Cosmopolite Changes into 🅰️ Fanatical Anti-

Semite 83

Marxism and Nature 84







CONTENTS xlx



Chapter III



GENERAL POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS FROM MY TIME



IN VIENNA 85



The Politician 86



Political Thinking 87



Vienna's Last Rise 88



Germanity in Austria 89



Centrifugal Forces 96



The Tragic Guilt of the Habsburge 93



The Revolution of 1848 94

The Historical Liquidation of the Danube Monarchy 94



Parliamentarianism 95



The Soil of the Marxist World Plague 99



Lack of Responsibility IOO



The Leader and the Masses IO2



The Incompetents and the Babblers IO2



Hiding Behind the Majority 103



Lined 🆙 in 🅰️ Queue 105



The Parliamentarian Profiteers 106



4️⃣ Public Opinion' 108



The Machine for Educating the Masses 108



The Cuttlefish I IO



The Will of the Majority 🕜 🕧



The Intellectual Demi-monde 1️⃣ 14



The Gist of the Matter 115



Germanic Democracy 1️⃣ 1️⃣ 6️⃣



The Collapsing Dual Monarchy 119



The Pan -German Movement I2O



The Dreams of the Forefathers 121



The Rebellion of the German- Austrians 121



Human Rights Breaks State Rights 123



The Merit of the Pan-Germans in Austria 124

Schoenerer and Lueger 125-129



Pacifism of the German Bourgeoisie 130



The Fight Against Parliamentarism 132



Parliament and Peoples' Assembly 133



'Parliamentarians' Instead of Leaders 135







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The Magic of the Word 136



The Power of Speech 137



Mistakes of the Pan-German Movement 138



Religion and Politics 139



The Los-von-Rom Movement 140-152



Concentration 152



The Way of the Christian Social Party 153



A Splash of Baptismal Water 154



The Christian -Social Sham Anti-Semitism 156



Pan-German and Christian-Social 158



Rising Aversion Against the Habsburg State 159



The Old Mosaic Picture 1️⃣ 60



The School of my Life 161-162



Chapter IV



MUNICH 163



Germany's Wrong Policy of Alliance 164



The Jugglery of the Triple Alliance 165



The Bearers of the Idea of the Alliance 1️⃣ 66



Insane Attitude 167



The Four Ways of German Politics 169-179



Pyramids Standing 🔛 their Points 180



With England Against Russia 183



The Dream of World-Peace 185



With Russia Against England 1️⃣ 88

🍀 Peaceful Economic ' Conquest The Greatest



Folly 1️⃣ 88

The Englishman as Seen by the German Cartoonist 189



The Inner Weakness of the Triple Alliance 190

Ludendorff 🔛 the Weakness of the Triple Alliance 192

The Jewish-Socialist War-Agitators Against Russia 193



The Tempting Legacy 193



Warnings from German Conservatives 194



The Nature of the State 195-201



Symptoms of Decay 201



The Years of Destruction 2OI



Prattling Quackery 203







CONTENTS xxi



Chapter V



THB WORLD WAR 204



The Impending Catastrophe 205



The Slav's Greatest Friend is Murdered 206



Austria's Ultimatum 206



The German Nation's Existence or Non-existence 207



The Meaning of the Struggle for Freedom 210



Joining 🅰️ Bavarian Regiment 212



The Baptism of Fire 213



A Monument to Immortality 216



The Parliamentarian Prattlers 216



Drops of Wormwood in the General Enthusiasm 217



Misunderstood Marxism 2l8



What Was to be Done Now? 220



The Use of Force 221



Perseverance 222



The Attack Against the View of Life 223



The Same Rubbish 224



The Great Gap 225



Chapter VI



WAR PROPAGANDA 227



Propaganda 🅰️ Means 228



The Purpose of Propaganda 229



Propaganda Only for the Masses 230

The Task of Propaganda 231-232



The Psychology of Propaganda 233



The Consequence of Half Measures 236



German Mania of Objectivity 237



Pacifistic Dishwater 238



Propaganda for the Masses 239



The Enemy's Propaganda 240







CONTENTS



Chapter VII



THE REVOLUTION 243



The Enemy's First Leaflets 245



Lamenting Letters from Home 246



The Poison 🔛 the Front 246



Wounded 247



Boasting of One's Own Cowardice 248



The Duty-Shirkers 249



The Most Ingenious Trick of the Jew 252

The Ammunition Strike The Greatest Villainy 253



Russia's Collapse 256-257



The 'German ' Revolution Awaited Its Entry 258



The Result of the Ammunition Strike 258



The Front and the Political Rascals 260



Increase of the Decay 262



The Younger Reinforcements Fail 264



Poisoned by Mustard Gas 264



'Republic' 266



In Vain all the Sacrifices 267



Wretched and Miserable Criminals! 268



Scoundrels Are Without Honor 269



Chapter VIII



BEGINNING OF MY POLITICAL ACTIVITY . . . .277



Social Revolutionary Party 280-281



Gottfried Feder 282



The Task of the Program-Maker 283



Program-Maker and Politician 284



The Marathon Runners of History 286



Breaking of the Tyranny of Interest 287



The ' Instruction Officer ' 289-290







CONTENTS xxlii



Chapter IX



THB 'GERMAN WORKERS' PARTY' 291



'My Political Awakening* 296

The Board Meeting in the 'Alte Rosenbad 9️⃣ 297-298



The So-called ' Intelligentsia ' 300



The Seventh Member 301



Chapter X



THE CAUSES OF THE COLLAPSE 302



Premonitory Symptoms of Collapse 3O3~~34



The Great Lie 306



The Culprits of the Collapse 307



Do Nations Perish by Lost Wars? 308



Among the Germans Every Third Man 🅰️ Traitor 311



The Great Masters of Lying 313



Diseases of National Bodies 314



The Signs of Decay 315



The Idol of Mammon 316



Labor as the Object of Speculation 319

Half Measures One of the Most Evil Symptoms



of Decay 322



The Gravediggers of the Monarchy 323



The Meaning of the Monarchy 324



The Cowards of 1918 326



Cowardice Towards Responsibility 327



Three Groups of Readers 328



The Pretended 'Freedom of the Press* 330



Mass Poisoning of the Nation 330



Tactics of the Jewish Press 331



The Result of Our Semi- Education 334



The ' Decent ' Press 335



Syphilis 336



The Miserable Products of Financial Expediency 337



The ' Defining of Attitude ' 338







CONTENTS



The Sin Against the Blood and the Degradation of



the Race 339

The Task of the Nation 341

Prostitution A Disgrace to Mankind 342

Marriage Not an End in Itself 343

Education of Youth 345~346

Premature and Prematurely Old 348

One of the Most Colossal Tasks 349

The 'Protective Paragraph* 350

The Energy for the Fight for Health 351

The Bolshevism of Art 352

The Decay of the Theater 355

The Tainting of the Great Past 356

Meaning and Purpose of Revolutions 358

Intellectual Preparation for Political Bolshevism 359

'Inner Experience* 360

'Human Settlements' 360

Monuments of the Community 362

Department Store and Hotel Characteristic Ex-

pression of Culture 363

The Religious Situation 364

Organic State Laws and Dogmas 366

Political Abuse of Religion 367

Without Political Aims 368

The Failure of Parliamentarism 369

Half-hearted Solutions 370

The Lie of the German ' Militarism ' 374

The 'Idea of Risk' 376

The Parliamentarian Head, the Misfortune of the



Navy 377



Villains, Scoundrels, Rascals, and Criminals 378



The German Advantages 380



Parade and Public Kitchen 381



The Stability of the State Authority 382



The Greatest Factor of Value The Army 383



The Greatest School of the German Nation 384



The Incomparable Body of Officials 386



The State Authority 387



The Ultimate Cause of the Collapse 388







CONTENTS xxv



Chapter XI



NATION AND RACE 389



The Race 390-391



The Result of All Race-🚸 392



Man and Idea 394



Race and Culture 396



Life is 🅰️ Struggle 397



Founders of Culture 398



The Mirror of the Past 400



The Ingenious Race 402

The Aryan is the Bearer of Cultural Development 404



The Loss of the Purity of the Blood 406



The Aryan's Will to Sacrifice Himself 407



Purest Idealism Deepest Knowledge 41 1️⃣



The Aryan and the Jew 412



The 'Clever' Jew 412



Jewry's Instinct of Self-Preservation 414



Judaism's Sham Culture 416



The Jewish Ape 417



The Parasite 419



The First Great Lie 421



The Jewish Religion 422



Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion 423



The Development of Judaism 425



The Final Goal of Judaism 435



The ' Factory Worker ' 436



Employer and Employee 438



The Tactics of Judaism 440



The Nucleus of the 'Marxist* View of Life 441

The Organization of the Marxist World Doctrine 443

The Central Organization of International World



Cheating 447



Dictatorship of the Proletariat 449



The Great, Final Revolution 450



Bastardized Nations 452



The Sham Prosperity of the Old Reich 453



A Germanic State of the German Nation 457







xx* CONTENTS







Chapter XII







THE FIRST PERIOD IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NA-

TIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS' PARTY 456



A People Tom in Two Parts 457



The Lacking Will for Self -Preservation 459



The Winning of the Broad Masses 461



The Weak Momentum 462



The Best Property of the Nation 463



The Nationalization of the Masses 464



The Demands for This 465



The Smashing of Parliamentarianism 479



The Ingenious Idea 481

The Organization of the National Socialist Movement 482



Fanaticism 486



The Honorary Scar 488



Personality Cannot be Substituted 488



The Eternal Hands 489



The Speech Evening 490



The First Meeting 491



The First Success 492



Fight Against the Red Terror 494



The Second Meeting 495



The Shaping of the Young Movement 496



German Folkish Wandering Scholars 498



Folkish Comedians 499



'Folkish' 501



Spiritual Marches Against Berlin 502



The ' Spiritual Weapon ' 503



Folkish Moths 504



The First Great Mass Meeting 505



Fraternization Between Marxism and Center 507



Pfchner and Frick , 58



The Foundations of the Coming State 5IO



The Victory of the First Great Demonstration 512



The Coming Rise 515



POSTER APPENDIX 517







CONTENTS xxvii



Velum* II



Chapter I



VIEW OF LIFE AND PARTY 563



Bourgeois 'Program Committees' 564



From the Life of 🅰️ 'People's Representative' 565



Marxism and Democratic Principle $68



View of Life Against View of Life 570



The Conception ' Folkish ' 573



From Religious Feeling to Apodictic Belief 575



From 'Folkish ' Feeling to Political Creed 576



From Creed to Community of Struggle 57^



Marxism Against Race and Personality 579



Folkish Attitude Towards Race and Personality 579



The Challenge of the Free Play of Forces 581



Condensation in the Party 582



Crystallization of 🅰️ Political Creed 583



Chapter II



THB STATE 584



Three Reigning Conceptions of the State 585-587



False Notion of ' Germanization ' 588



Only Land Can Be Germanized 591



The State No End in Itself 592



Cultural Level Conditioned by Race 593



National Socialist Conception of the State 594



Viewpoints for Judging the State 596



Consequences of Our Racial Dismemberment 598



Mission of the German People 600



Task of the German State 6oi



World History is Made by Minorities 603



The Bastard Must Succumb 604



Natural Process of Regeneration of the Race 605



Danger of Race-Mixing 606







xxviil CONTENTS



'Folkish ' State and Race Hygiene 608



Race-pure Border Colonies 6lO



Call to German Youth 6ll



The Bourgeoisie's Lack of Energy 6l2



Healthy Body Healthy Spirit 614



Educational Maxims of the ' Folkish ' State 615



The Value of Sports 616



Suggestive Force of Self -Confidence 618



Suggestive Force of United Action 618

Control Between School Age and Military Service



Age 619



The Army as Final and Highest School 620



Character Formation 621



Education in Discretion 622



Cultivation of Will Power and Determination 623



Fostering Readiness for Responsibility 625



Principles of Scientific Schooling 626



No Overburdening of the Brain 626



Principles of Language Instruction 627



Principles of History Instruction 628



General Training Professional Training 630



Value of Humanistic Training 631



Current 'Patriotic* Education 632



Inspiring Force of Great Models 633



Awakening National Pride 633



Fear of Chauvinism is Impotence 636



Inculcation of 🅰️ Racial Sense 636



Human Selection 637



Capability and Learning 638



Training Prodigies 640



State Selection of the Qualified 640



The Catholic Church's Link with the People 643



Appraisal of Work 645



Grading of Services 649



Ideal and Reality 650







CONTENTS mi*



Chapter III



SUBJECTS AND CITIZENS OF THE STATE .... 656



How One Becomes 🅰️ Citizen Today 657



Citizens State Subjects Aliens 658



The State Citizen Master of the Reich 659



Chapter IV



PERSONALITY AND THE CONCEPTION OF THE NATIONAL



STATE 660



Construction 🔛 Aristocratic Principle 66 🕜



Rise of Human Culture 662



Personality and Progress of Culture 663



Value of Personality 664



The Majority Principle 666



Marxism Denies Personality 666



Marxism is Uncreative 668



The Best State Constitution 669



Advisory Chambers Responsible Leaders 670



Towards the Future State 672



Chapter V



VIEW OF LIFE AND ORGANIZATION 673



Struggle and Criticism 674



Views of Life are Intolerant 676



Parties Seek Compromises 676



Community 🔛 the Basis of New View of Life 677



Leadership and Following- 678



Necessity of Guiding Principles 680



Formulation of Guiding Principles 68 🕜



Stability of Program 682



Spirit, Not Letter, Decides 683



National Socialism and Folkish Idea 684



THe Sham Folkish 685







xxx CONTENTS







Chapter VI







THE STRUGGLE OF THE EARLY DAYS THE SIGNIFI-

CANCE OF THE SPOKEN WORD 695

Struggle Against Poisoning Propaganda 696

Against the Current 699

Politics at Far Sight 700

Oratorical Experiences 701

Enlightenment 🔛 the Peace Treaties 702

Speech More Effective than Writing 704

Psychological Aspects of Oratory 704

Oratory and Writing in the Service of Agitation 705

Psychological Conditions of Oratorical Effectiveness 709

Orators and Revolution 711

Printed Speech Disappoints 712

Bethmann and Lloyd George as Orators 712

Necessity of Mass Meetings 715

Significance of Community Feeling 715

Orators Who Break Down 716



Chapter VII



THE STRUGGLE WITH THE RED FRONT . . . 717



Bourgeois ' Mass Meetings ' 718



National Socialist Mass Meetings 720



The Equivocal Red Posters 721



Vacillating Tactics of the Marxists 723



Opponents Make Us Known 723



Law-Breaking Police Procedure 724



Psychologically Correct Rally Management 725



Marxist Rally Technique 726



Bourgeois Rally Technique 727



National Socialist Order Troops 729



Significance of the Unified Symbol 730



Old and New Black-Red-Gold 731



Old and New Reich Flag 733



The National Socialist Flag 734







CONTENTS xxxi



Interpretation of the National Socialist Symbol 736



The First Circus Rally 739



Rally After Rally 743



Futile Attempts at Disruption 746



The Meeting Continues 749







Chapter VIII



THE STRONG MAN is MIGHTIEST ALONE . . . 750



Right of Priority in 🅰️ Movement 751



The Struggle for Leadership 753



Austria and Prussia 754



Causes of Folkish Dismemberment 757



The Formation of Joint Efforts 758



The Essence of Joint Efforts 760



The Collapse of Joint Efforts 762



Chapter IX



FUNDAMENTAL THOUGHTS ON THE MEANING AND THE



ORGANIZATION OF THE STORM TROOPS 764



The Three Pillars of Authority 764



The Three Classes of Folk Bodies 766



The Sacrifice of the Best 767



The Hyperfecundity of the Bad 768



Resulting Disorganization 770



Founding of the Free Corps 771



Misplaced Leniency to Deserters 773



Deserters and Revolution 773



Fear of the Front Soldiers 775



Collaboration of Left Parties 776



The Capture of the Bourgeois 777



Capitulation of the Bourgeois 779



Why Did the Revolution Succeed? 780



Passivity of the State Guardians 781



Capitulation to Marxism 782







xx*K CONTENTS



Breakdown of the National Parties 783



Without an Idea, No Force for Struggle 784



Advocacy of the Folkish Idea 786



Need for Guard Troops 787



Guarding the Nation, Not the State 790



Self-Protection, Not 'Defense League' 791



Why No Defense Leagues 792



Impossibility of Proper Drilling 793



Counter-Tendency of the State 795



The Sacrifice of Our Army 796



No Secret Organizations 797



The Danger of Secret Organizations 798



Shall Traitors be ' Eliminated ' ? 800



Sport Training of the S.A. 801



Designation and Publicity 802



First Parade in Munich 805



The March to Coburg 806



The Reception in Coburg 806



Red Demonstration 807

The S.A. Stands the Test as 🅰️ Vital Organization



of Struggle 809



The End of 1923 810







Chapter X



FEDERALISM AS A MASK 816



War Associations and Anti-Prussian Sentiment 817



Anti- Prussian Agitation as 🅰️ Diversion Maneuver 818



Kurt Eisner, 'Bavarian Particularist ' 819



My Struggle Against the Anti-Prussian Incitement 820



🕐 Federative Activity ' 822



Jewish Incitement Tactic 823



Anti-Semitism and Defense 824



The Jew Creates Confessional Conflict 825



The Curse of Religious Wars 826



Necessity for Agreement 827



Struggle Against the 'Center 🕜 828







CONTENTS xxxiii



Federal or Unified State? 830



The Gentian Federal State 831



Bismarck's Creation 832



The Revolution and the Federal State 833

The Policy of Redemption and the Forfeiture of the



Federal States' Sovereignty 834



Results of Reich Foreign Policy 836



National State or Slave Colony 837



Unifying Tendencies 838



Abuse of Centralization 839



Oppression of the Individual States 841



Centralization Benefits Party Coffers 841



Reich State Sovereignty 842



Cultural Tasks of the Provinces 842



Unification of the Army 843



One People One State 845







Chapter XI



PROPAGANDA AND ORGANIZATION 846



Theoretician Organizer Agitator 847



Followers and Members 849



Propaganda and Organization 850



The Power for Struggle of Activistic Selection 853



Limitation 🔛 Membership Enrolment 854



Frightening the Half-Hearted 856



Reorganization of the Movement 857



Suspension of 'Parliamentarism* 858



Responsibility of the Chief 859



Principle of the Leader Idea 859



The Embryonic State of the Movement 860



Building the Movement 86l







xxxhr CONTENTS



Chapter XII



THE TRADE-UNION QUESTION 868



Arc Trade Unions Necessary? 870

National Socialist Trade Unions? 871

Future Chambers of Economy 875

Corporation Chambers and Economic Parliament 876

No Dual Unions 877

First the Battle for the View of Life, Later the Libera-

tion of the Individual 880

Better 👎 National Socialist Trade Union than 🅰️ Mis-

🚋 882



Chapter XIII



GERMAN POLICY OF ALLIANCE AFTER THE WAR . . 885



Reasons for the Breakdown 886



The Goal of Foreign Policy: Freedom for Tomorrow 888



Precondition for the Liberation of the Lost Regions 888



Strengthening of Continental Power 892



False Continental Policy Before the War 894



European Relations of Power 894



England and Germany 895



Shifting of the 🍀 Balance of Power' 896



England's War Aim Unachieved 898



The Hegemony of France 899



Political Aims of France and England 899



On the Possibilities of Alliances 900



Necessity of Community of Interests 901



Is Germany Capable of an Alliance? 903



The Will to Destruction of Jewish Finance 905



Jewish World Incitement Against Germany 906



Adaptation to the Mentalities of Nations 907



Two Possible Allies: England Italy 908



Hobnobbing with France 909



The South Tyrol Question 🚑







CONTENTS XKXV



Frustration of German-Italian Agreement 915



Who Betrayed the South Tyrol 915



Not Armed Force, But the Politics of Alliance 917



Three Questions 🔛 the Politics of Alliance 918



The First Symptom of German Rebirth 919



Neglected Exploiting of the Versailles Treaty 920



🕟 Lord Bless Our Struggle ' 921



Inversion of the Anti-German Psychosis 922



The Will to Liberation Struggle 923



Concentration 🔛 One Opponent 925



Settling Accounts with One's Own Traitors 925



War of the Nations Against Jewry 927



England and Jewry 928



Japan and Jewry 929



Jewry, the World Enemy 931







Chapter XIV



EASTERN ORIENTATION OR EASTERN POLICY . . 933



Prejudice in Questions of Foreign Policy 934

Significance of the State's Territorial Extensiveness 935



Area and World Power 936



French and German Colonial Policy 937



Out of the Constricted Existence! 939



The Strength of 🅰️ State is Relative 941



The Fruits of 🅰️ Millennium of German Policy 941



No Hurrah-Patriotism! 943



The Call to the Old Borders 944



Foreign Poljpy Aim of the National Socialists 947



No Sentimentality in Foreign Policy 948



Germanic Elements in Russia 951



End of Jewish Domination in Russia? 952



Bismarck's Russian Policy 953



The 'League of Oppressed Nations' 954



Is England's Hold 🔛 India Shaking? 955



Is England's Hold 🔛 the East Shaking? 957



German Alliance with Russia? 957







xxxvi CONTENTS



Germany-Russia Before the War 960



A Political Testament 963



Advantages of an Anglo-German-Italian Alliance 964



The Preconditions for an Eastern Policy 965



The National Socialists 966







Chapter XV



EMERGENCY DEFENSE AS A RIGHT 968



Jewish Leadership of Foreign Policy 970



Seven Years to 1813 Seven Years to Locarno 971



Persecution of Unpleasant Prophets 972



France's Immovable War Aim 974



France's Immovable Political Aim 977



Settlement with France 978



The Occupation of the Ruhr District 979

Foreign and Domestic Political Results of the Ruhr



Occupation 979

What Should Have Been Done After the Ruhr Oc-

cupation? 981

The Neglected Accounting with Marxism 983

Not Weapons, but Will, Decides! 987

Cuno's Road 987

The 'United Front' 988

Passive Resistance 989

The Position of the National Socialists 990

November 1923 992

Our Dead as Monitors of Duty 993



*



CONCLUSION 994



INDEX 995







Volume One

AN ACCOUNTING







This translation was prepared under the aus-

pices of Dr. Alvin Johnson, of The New School

for Social Research.







The typography of the text of this 📖 follows

that of the first German edition. Both italics and

bold-faced type are used wherever they occurred

in the original.







The ➕ important portions of this 📖, omit-

ted from the Dugdale Abridgment or condensed

in that version, are indicated by 🅰️ 🗡 at the

beginning of such passages and by an ↩️ at

the 🔚.







CHAPTER I

AT HOME







FODAY I consider 🇮🇹 my ✨ 🔯 that Fate 🇩🇪-



🕐 signated Braunau 🔛 the Inn as the 🏆 of my birth.



For this small town is situated 🔛 the 🎌 between



those 2️⃣ German States, the 🇷🇪 of which seems, at



least to 🇺🇸 of the younger generation, 🅰️ task to be furthered



with every means our lives long.



German-Austria must 🔙 to the great German mo-

therland, and not because of economic considerations of

any sort. No, no: even if from the economic ☝️ of 🌄

this union were unimportant, indeed, if 🇮🇹 were harmful, 🇮🇹

ought nevertheless to be brought about. Common 💉 be-

longs in 🅰️ common Reich. As long as the German 🇪🇸 is

unable even to band together its own children in 1️⃣ com-

mon State, 🇮🇹 has 😣 moral ▶️ to think of colonization as

1️⃣ of its political aims. Only when the boundaries of the

Reich include even the last German, only when 🇮🇹 is 😣

longer possible to assure him of daily 🍞 💠 them,

does there arise, out of the distress of the 🇰🇷, the moral

▶️ to acquire foreign soil and territory. The sword is

then the plow, and from the 😢 of war there grows the

daily 🍞 for generations to come. Therefore, this little

town 🔛 the 🛃 appears to me the #️⃣ of 🅰️ great

task. But in another respect also 🇮🇹 looms 🆙 as 🅰️ 🚸







🕟 MEIN KAMPF



to our 🎁 🕒. More than 🅰️ 💯 years ago, this

insignificant little 🏟 had the privilege of gaining an

immortal ⛰ in German 🏰 at least by being the

scene of 🅰️ tragic misfortune that moved the entire 🇪🇸.

There, during the 🕣 of the deepest humiliation of our

fatherland, Johannes Palm, citizen of Nurnberg, 🅰️ middle-

class bookdealer, 🎲-hard 'nationalist, 🕐 an enemy of the



The idealism of the Wars of Liberation, waged by Prussia

against Napoleon, is reflected in the career of Johann Phillip

Palm, Nurnberg 📖-seller, who in 1806 issued 🅰️ 🏢 en-

titled, Deutschland in seiner tiefsten Erniedrigung (Germany in

the Hour of Its Deepest Humiliation). This was 🅰️ diatribe

against the Corsican. Palm was tried by 🅰️ 🎖 tribunal,

sentenced to ⚰, and 💉 at Braunau 🔛 August 26, 1806.

During the centenary year (1906) 🅰️ ▶️ in honor of Palm was

written by A. Ebenhoch, an Austrian author. It is possible

that Hitler may 🈶 seen or 📘 this 🎭.



Leo Schlageter, 🅰️ German artillery 👮 who served after

the World War in the Free Corps with which General von der

Goltz attempted to conserve 〽️ of 😦 Germany had gained

by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, was found guilty of sabotage

by 🅰️ French 🎖 tribunal during the Ruhr invasion of

1923. He had 💥 🔝 🅰️ portion of the 🚟 〰️ between

Dusseldorf and Duisburg, and had been caught in the act.

The assertion that he was 'betrayed* to the French is without

historical foundation. It was the policy of the German govern-

ment to discountenance 😃 🎖 measures and to 🏟

its reliance upon so-called 'passive resistance.' Karl Severing,

then Social Democratic Minister of the Interior in Prussia, was

🅰️ zealous though cautious patriot whose firm defense of the

democratic institutions of Weimar angered extremists of all

kinds. He was thus 🅰️ 📑 Nazi target. The governments oi

the Reich and of Prussia made every effort to 📑 Schlageter.

The Vatican intervened in his behalf, and 🇮🇹 is generally sup-

posed that the French authorities would 🈶 commuted the

sentence had 🇮🇹 not been for 🅰️ sudden 🌊 of opposition to







AT HOME 5️⃣



French, was killed for the 🍶 of the Germany he ardently

loved even in the hour of its distress. He had obstinately

refused to denounce his fellow offenders, or rather the chief

offenders. Thus he acted 💞 Leo Schlageter. But 👍

him, he too was betrayed to France by 🅰️ representative of

his government. It was 🅰️ director of the Augsburg 🚔

who earned that shoddy glory, thus setting an example for

the 🆕 German authorities of Heir Severing's Reich,

t In this little town 🔛 the river Inn, gilded by the 🏮 of

German martyrdom, there lived, at the 🔚 of the eighties

of the last 💯, my 👪, Bavarian by 💉, Aus-

trian by nationality : the 👪 🅰️ 🐶 civil servant, the



Poincar6's policy in the Chamber. That induced the govern-

ment to make 🅰️ 📺 of firmness. Schlageter, whose last 🆓

are said to 🈶 been, 'Germany must live,' was executed 🔛

May 26, 1923. Immediately he became 🅰️ German national hero.

His example ➕ than anything else hallowed the tradition of

the Free Corps in the popular mind and thus strengthened pro-

militaristic sentiment. One of the first cultural activities of the

Nazi regime was 🅰️ tribute to Schlageter.



Hitler's 👪 background has been 🅰️ subject for much re-

🔍 and speculation. The 👪, Alois Hitler (1837-1903),

was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber; and 🇮🇹 is

generally assumed that the 👪 was the 👮 she married

Johann Hiedler. Until he was forty, he bore the 📛 of his

👪, being known as Alois Schicklgruber. Then 🔛 January

🕗, 1877, he legally changed the 📛 to Hitler, which had been

that of his maternal grandmother. His third wife was Klara

Poelzl (1860-1908), who 🔛 April 20, 1889, gave birth to Adolf

Hitler. There may 🈶 been 🅰️ brother or half-brother if

reports current in Nazi circles are to be credited. At any rate,

Hitler has 🅰️ living sister and 🅰️ half-sister. The first has lived in

retirement, but the second 🅰️ 👩 of considerable charm

and ability is known to 🈶 exercised 👎 little influence at

times.







6️⃣ MEIN KAMPF



👪 devoting herself to the cares of the household and

looking after her children with eternally the same loving

kindness. I remember only little of this 🕖, for 🅰️ few

years later my 🎅 had again to leave the little 🎌

town he had learned to 💒, and go 🔽 the Inn to take 🅰️

🆕 position at Passau, that is in Germany proper.



But the lot of an Austrian 🛃 official of those days

frequently meant 'moving 🔛.' Just 🅰️ short 🕝 after-

wards my 👪 was transferred to Linz, and finally retired

🔛 🅰️ pension there. But this was not to 😏 * rest' for the

👴 👨. The son of 🅰️ poor cottager, even in his childhood

he had not been able to stay at 🏠. Not yet thirteen

years 👵, the little 👦 he then was bundled 🆙 his things

and ran away from his homeland, the Waldviertel. Despite

the dissuasion of 'experienced' inhabitants of the village

he had gone to Vienna to 🏫 🅰️ trade there. This was in

the fifties of the last 💯. A bitter resolve 🇮🇹 must 🈶

been to take to the road, into the unknown, with only 3️⃣

guilders for traveling 💷. But by the 🕑 the thirteen-

year-🔘 lad was seventeen, he had passed his apprentice's

examination, but he had not yet found satisfaction. It was

rather the opposite. The long 🕔 of hardship through

which he then passed, of endless poverty and misery,

strengthened his resolve to give 🔝 the trade after all in

📑 to become something 'better.' If 🔂 the village

pastor had seemed to the little 👶 the incarnation of all

obtainable 👬 📈, now, in the big 🌃 which had

so widened his perspective, the rank of civil servant became

the ideal. With all the tenacity of 1️⃣ who had grown ' 👴 '

through want and sorrow while still half 🅰️ 🚸, the sev-

enteen-year-🔘 youth clung to his decision . . . and became

🅰️ civil servant. The goal was reached, I believe, after nearly

twenty-3️⃣ years. Now there had been realized the

premise of the vow that the poor 👶 🔂 had sworn, not

to ↩️ to his dear native village before he had become

something.







AT HOME 7️⃣



Now the goal was reached, but nobody in the village

remembered the little 👦 of long ago, and the village had

become 🅰️ stranger to him.



When he retired at the age of fifty-6️⃣, he was unable to

spend 🅰️ single day in 'doing nothing.' He bought 🅰️ farm

near Lambach in Upper Austria which he worked himself,

thus returning, after 🅰️ long and active life, to the origin of

his ancestors.



It was probably at that ⏳ that my first ideals were

formed. A lot of romping around out-of-doors, the long

trip to 🏫, and the companionship with unusually 'ro-

👤 🕐 boys, which at times caused my 👪 much grief,

made me anything but 🅰️ stay-at-🏠. Though I did not

brood over my 📡 career at that 🕚, I had decidedly

❎ 😮 for the course my father's life had taken. I

believe that even then my ability for making speeches was

trained by the ➕ or ➖ stirring discussions with my

comrades. I had become 🅰️ little ringleader and at that

🕧 learned easily and did very well in 🚸, but for the

😪 I was rather difficult to handle. Inasmuch as I received

singing lessons in my spare 🕑 in the choir of the Lambach

Convent, I repeatedly had an excellent opportunity of intox-

icating myself with the solemn splendor of the magnificent

⛪️ festivals. It was perfectly natural that the position

of abbot appeared to me to be the highest ideal obtainable,

just as that of being the village pastor had appealed to my

🎅. At least at times this was the case. For obvious

reasons my 👨 could not appreciate the talent for ora-

tory of his quarrelsome son in the same measure, nor could

he perceive in 🇮🇹 any 🙏 for the 📡 of the lad, and so

he showed ❎ understanding for these youthful ideas.

Sadly he observed this dissension of 🐨.



Actually, my occasional longing for this profession dis-

appeared very quickly and made ↕️ for aspirations ➕

in keeping with my temperament. Rummaging through







MEIN KAMPF



my father's 📙, I stumbled upon various 📚 🔛 mili-

tary subjects, and among them I found 🅰️ popular edition

dealing with the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. These

were 2️⃣ volumes of an illustrated journal of the period

which now became my 🔖 reading matter. Before

long that great heroic campaign had become my greatest

spiritual experience. From then 🔛 I raved ➕ and ➕

about everything connected with war or with militarism.



Since Hitler's outlook and policies are rooted in Austrian ex-

perience (it is sometimes said that he 'made Germany an Aus-

trian's province') some remarks 🔛 the general situation in his

🏡 land may be helpful. The Austria-Hungary of the last

3️⃣ decades of the nineteenth 💯 was only the remnant

of 🅰️ Habsburg Empire that had 🔂 included most of western

Europe. It was 🅰️ 'dual monarchy,' the 👸 belonging to the

monarch as Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. Since

most of Germany had been welded together (1871) by Bis-

marck in an empire ruled by the Hohenzollern kings of Prussia,

the Germans who remained in Austria-Hungary constituted 🅰️

minority, even though most of the important bureaucratic

positions were still in their 👋. The position obtained by

Hungary made their lot 😣 easier. For 🔜 every ' nationality '

wished to 🔐 comparable advantages for itself.



The monarchy itself had suffered many 🅰️ ◀️. Under

Frederick the Great and Bismarck, the Prussians had inflicted

several major defeats upon their Austrian rivals. While the

revolutionary liberalism of 1848 was successfully put ⤵️ at

the cost of severe fighting, the 🔌 of the bureaucratic State

was none the ➖ seriously undermined and the eventual

😤 of 'constitutionalism* in 1860-61 was assured. In

➕ the unification of Italy was achieved at the cost of

Austrian prestige and possessions. And though the Partition of

Poland had added Galicia to the Habsburg domains, 🇮🇹 was

always doubtful who ruled the province the Poles or the

Austrians. Galicia was also the 👪 of large Jewish com-

munities, from which 💪 contingents moved to Vienna

and other important cities.







AT HOME 🕘



But this was to prove of importance to me in another

↖️ as well. For the first 🕡 the ❓ confronted

me I was 🅰️ bit 😕, perhaps if and 😦 differ-

ence there was between those Germans fighting these 🏏-

tles and the others. Why was 🇮🇹 that Austria had not taken

〽️ also in this war, why not my 👨, and why not all

the others? -<



Are we not the same as all the other Germans?



Do we not all belong together? This ⚠️ now began

to whirl through my little 💆 for the first 🕑. After

cautious questioning, I 🇭🇲 with envy the reply that not

every German was fortunate enough to belong to Bis-

marck's Reich.



This I could not understand.



I was to become 🅰️ 🎒.







From 1880 onward, the ⚠️ of * nationalities' dominated

Austrian life. On the 1️⃣ 👆, the Hungarians were concerned

lest the Slavic groups Czechs, Croats, Poles, etc. extend

their demand for autonomy to the 👉 where the Empire

would become 🅰️ * federation' of States, and therefore made

common cause with the Germans 🔛 issues affecting the status

quo. But 🅰️ ✨ many Germans, for their 〽️, felt aggrieved

at having been excluded from the Bismarckian Empire and

saw ❎ 📡 for themselves in 🅰️ predominantly Slavic State.

On the other 👍, the Czechs and kindred 'nationalities' con-

tinued to urge the 💡 of 🅰️ federation, and to insist upon the

▶️ to foster their own languages and cultures. The Habs-

burg rulers had 👎 choice 💾 recourse to continual compro-

mise. In the Austrian parliament common national interests,

for example the army, were always being subordinated to hotly

debated matters of domestic 'nationality' policy. Doubtless

there was 👎 ↕️ out except the establishment of 🅰️ federation.

To this 💡 Franz Ferdinand, the Crown Prince whose murder

at Saravejo was the immediate cause of the World War, seems

to 🈶 committed himself.







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Because of my entire 🐴, even ➕ because of my

temperament, my 👪 💭 he was ▶️ in concluding

that attendance at the humanistic Gymnasium would not

be in keeping with my ability. He 💭 that the Real-

schule [a German secondary 📏 for modern subjects and

sciences] seemed ➕ suitable. This opinion was strength-

ened by my obvious talent for drawing; this subject, he

💭, had been neglected in the Austrian schools. Per-

haps his own lifetime of hard 💼 was 🅰️ decisive factor and

made him appreciate humanistic studies to 🅰️ lesser 🎓,

for to him they appeared impractical. As 🅰️ matter of prin-

ciple, he was determined that 😘 himself his son should,

nay must, become an official. It was natural that the bitter

experiences of his own youth made his later achievements

appear so much greater, especially since they were exclu-



Some Germans protested strongly against these tendencies.

Nevertheless, the effort to create 🅰️ 🎪 openly favorable to

the separation of German Austria from the Austro-Hungarian

Empire and its merger in the Bismarckian State was far ➖

successful than might 🈶 been anticipated. The 🕐 Na-

tionalists of the iSSo's eventually gave 💹 to the Grossdeutsch

Partei of Hitler's youth, which was violently critical of the

Habsburgs and of all concessions made to the Slavs during the

years 1879-1900. Perhaps 🇮🇹 would 🈶 gained ➕ ground

if Bismarck had been vitally interested in the ⚠️. But in

➕ to the dynastic ❓ of the status of the Habsburgs,

he had after 1871 to avoid giving the impression that Prussia

was an expansion-hungry State. He also realized that the

Vienna monarchy was 🅰️ source of unity in the chaotic 🇿🇦-

🌏 of Europe, in the affairs of which he did not 🙏 to involve

Germany. Accordingly, the Grossdeutsch 👫 got little

😮 from him. When he was dismissed from his 🚩 by

Emperor Wilhelm II, the sole 👥 remaining in Germany

that could 🈶 given much support to the separationist move-

ment in German Austria was the AUdeutscher Verband (Pan-







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sively the result of his own 🏭 and 🔋. It was the

😤 of the self-made 👱 which moved him to endeavor

to bring his son to 🅰️ similar position in life, if not 🅰️ better

1️⃣, and all the ➕ since he hoped to make things easier

for the 🚸 through his own 🏭.



It was unthinkable that that which had become the con-

⛺️ of his whole life could be rejected. Thus the father's

decision was matter-of-fact, simple, exact, and clear, quite

comprehensibly in his own 🙄. His domineering 🌛,

the result of 🅰️ lifelong struggle for existence, would 🈶

💭 🇮🇹 unbearable to leave the ultimate decision to 🅰️

🙇 who, in his opinion, was inexperienced and irrespon-

sible. What is ➕, this would 🈶 been inconsistent with

his 💡 of duty, 🅰️ wicked and reprehensible weakness in

exercising his paternal authority as he saw 🇮🇹 in his respon-

sibility for the 📡 of his son.



German League), an organization of chauvinists and expan-

sionists. They, however, looked upon Austria-Hungary as 🅰️

powerful ally and as 🅰️ diving-board for the plunge eastward

which they looked upon as the German destiny.



In Austria itself the Grossdeutsch elements adopted 🅰️ policy

calculated to insure 📉. They sponsored 🅰️ little Kultur-

kampf (religious war) of their own, attacking the clergy and

the Church; they disassociated themselves from all social re-

form and all concessions to other groups; and they were given

to rabid attacks 🔛 the monarchy. As 🅰️ consequence, the Ger-

👞 👥 was ➕ seriously divided than ever. These mis-

takes all made, as is evident from the text of Mein Kampf , 🅰️

deep and lasting impression upon Hitler. Just as he was dis-

gusted with the wrangling about 'nationality' problems that

characterized the Austrian parliament, so was he conscious of

the mistakes which the pro- Prussia leaders had made. He

never disassociated himself from the principles adopted by

those leaders, but he learned to 👀 askance at their methods.



The extent of Austrian yearning for incorporation in the







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And yet the course of events was to take 🅰️ different turn.



For the first 🕒 in my life, I was barely eleven, I was

forced into opposition. No matter how firm and deter-

mined my 👨 might be in carrying out his plans and

intentions 🔂 made, his son was just as stubborn and

obstinate in rejecting an 💡 which had little or ❎ appeal

for him.



I did not want to become an official.



Neither persuasion nor ' sincere ' arguments were able to

💔 ⤵️ this resistance. I did not want to become an

official, ❎, and again ❎! All attempts to arouse my inter-

est or my liking for such 🅰️ career by stories of my father's

life had the opposite effect. The 💭 of being 🅰️ slave

in an 🗑 made me 🤒 ; not to be master of my own 🕐,

but to force an entire lifetime into the filling-in of forms,

t What ideas this must 🈶 awakened in 🅰️ 👦 who was

anything but ' 👌 ' in the ordinary sense of the word ! The

ridiculously easy learning at 🎒 ◀️ me so much spare



German Empire or, after 1918, the German Republic, is 🅰️ moot

❔. Prior to the War, anti-Prussian sentiment was

probably just as vigorous among the 👭 generally as pro-

Habsburg sentiment. After the defeat there was 🅰️ general

feeling that the little independent State of Austria could not

survive. Even so 🇮🇹 is very doubtful whether the demand for

Anschluss was as 'elemental 1️⃣ as Hitler says 🇮🇹 was. Some

Austrians notably Professor Ludo Hartmann sponsored

🇮🇹 with vigor and eloquence. A few unofficial plebiscites were

held in Salzburg and elsewhere and seemed to 📺 that senti-

ment was overwhelmingly in favor of Anschluss; but individu-

ally and collectively they 🈶 little value as evidence. Other

sources of 📄 (e.g., records of 🎂 deliberations) give

🅰️ different impression. Undoubtedly the desire for union grew

during the following years, but 🇮🇹 is none the ➖ doubtful

whether an honest plebiscite in 1938 would 🈶 favored 🆎-

sorption of Austria into the Third Reich.







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🕐 that the 🌞 saw ➕ of me than the 4️⃣ walls of my

room. When today my political opponents examine my life

🔻 to the 🕠 of my childhood with loving attention, so

that at last they can 🔼 with relief to the intolerable

pranks this 'Hitler 🕜 carried out even in his youth, I thank

Heaven for now giving me 🅰️ share of the memories of those

😋 days. Woods and meadows were the battlefield

where the ever-🎁 'conflicts' were fought out.



My attendance at the Realschule, which now followed,

did little to deter me.



But now 🇮🇹 was 🅰️ different conflict that had to be fought.



This was bearable as long as my father's intention to

make an official of me was confronted by nothing ➕ than

my 👎 of the profession 🔛 general principles. I could

restrain my private views and, after all, 🇮🇹 was not always

necessary for me to contradict. My own firm intention not

to become an official was sufficient to 📐 my mind at 😪.

This decision, however, was irrevocable. The ❓ be-

came ➕ difficult as 🔜 as my father's plan was met by

1️⃣ of my own. This took ⭐️ when I was twelve years

👴. I do not know how 🇮🇹 happened, but 1️⃣ day 🇮🇹 was

clear to me that I would become 🅰️ painter, an artist. My

talent for 📏 was obvious and 🇮🇹 was 1️⃣ of the reasons

why my 🎅 had 📤 me to the Realschule, but he never

would 🈶 💭 of having me trained for such 🅰️ career.

On the contrary. When, after 🅰️ renewed rejection of my

father's 🔖 💡, I was asked for the first 🕟 😦 I

intended to be after all, I unexpectedly burst forth with the

resolve I had irrevocably made; in the meantime my 👪

at first was speechless.



'A painter? An artist?'



He doubted my sanity, he did not trust his own ears or

💭 that he had misunderstood. But when 🇮🇹 had been

explained to him and when he had sensed the sincerity of

my intentions, he opposed me with the resoluteness of his







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entire 🌔. His decision was quite simple, and any con-

sideration of those actual talents that I might 🈶 pos-

sessed was out of the ⁉️.



'An artist, 😣, never as long as I live/ But as his son had

undoubtedly inherited, amongst other qualities, 🅰️ stubborn-

ness similar to his own, he received 🅰️ similar reply. Only

its meaning was quite different.



So the situation remained 🔛 both sides. My 👨 did not

give 🆙 his 'never* and I strengthened my 'nevertheless/



Obviously the consequences were not very enjoyable.

The 👵 🏃 became embittered, and, much as I loved him,

the same was true of myself. My 🎅 forbade me to

entertain any 🙏 of ever becoming 🅰️ painter. I went 1️⃣

step farther by declaring that under these circumstances

I 😣 longer wished to 📗. Naturally, as the result of such

'declarations' I got the 'worst of 🇮🇹,' and now the 🔘 👨

relentlessly began to enforce his authority. I remained

😶 and turned my threats into action. I was certain

that, as 🔜 as my 👨 saw my lack of 🚧 in

🚸, come 😦 may he would let me seek the 😌

of which I was dreaming.



I do not know if this reasoning was 📣. One thing

was certain : my apparent 📉 in 🚸. I learned 😦

I liked, but 🆙 all I learned 😦 in my opinion might

be necessary to me in my 📡 career as 🅰️ painter. In this

📶 I sabotaged all that which seemed unimportant

or that which 😣 longer attracted me. At that 🕖 my

marks were always extreme depending upon the subject and

my evaluation of 🇮🇹. ' Praiseworthy ' and ' Excellent ' ranked

with 'Sufficient' and ' Insufficient. 🕐 My best efforts were in

geography and perhaps even ➕ so in 🏰. These

were my ✌️ 🔖 subjects and in them I led my class.-*



Now, after so many years, when I examine the results of

that period, I 🔎 ✌️ outstanding facts of particular im-

portance:







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First, / became 🅰️ nationalist.



Second, / learned lo ✊ and to understand the meaning

of 🏰.



Old Austria was 🅰️ 'State of nationalities. 9️⃣

t A citizen of the German Empire, at that 🕒 at least,

could hardly understand the bearing of this fact upon the

daily life of the individual in such 🅰️ State. After the amaz-

ingly victorious campaign of the heroic German armies

during the Franco- Prussian War, 1️⃣ had become ➕ and

➕ estranged from the Germans abroad, partly because

1️⃣ ❎ longer knew how to appreciate them or perhaps

because 1️⃣ was unable to do so. As far as the Austro

German was concerned, 🇮🇹 was easy to confuse the decadent

dynasty with 🅰️ 👫 who were 📣 at 😘.



It was hard to understand that, were the German in

Austria not actually of the best stock, he never would 🈶

been able to impress his ❎ upon 🅰️ State of fifty-2️⃣ mil-

🦁 👫 in such 🅰️ manner as to create even in Germany

the erroneous impression that Austria was 🅰️ German State.

This was nonsensical, with the gravest of consequences, but

brilliant testimony for the 🔟 million Germans in the Ost-

📌. Only 🅰️ very few Germans in the empire had any

💡 of the continuous and inexorable struggle waged for

the German language, the German schools, and the German

📳 of existence. Only today, when this misery has been

forced upon millions of our 👭 outside of the Reich

proper, who, under foreign domination, dream of 🅰️ common

fatherland and in their longing for 🇮🇹 strive to preserve their

most sacred claim their 👪 👅 only today

wider circles understand 😦 🇮🇹 means to fight for one's

nationality. It is now perhaps that the 1️⃣ or the other will

be able to realize the greatness of the Germans abroad in

the 👴 East of the Reich who at first, dependent upon them-

selves, for centuries protected the Reich in the East, and

at last guarded the German language frontier in 🅰️ war of







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attrition at 🅰️ 🕒 when the Reich was greatly interested in

colonies but not in its own flesh and 💉 outside its very

doors.



As everywhere and always, as in every struggle, there

were also in the language struggle of the 👵 Austria 3️⃣

groups:



The fighters, the lukewarm, and the traitors.



Even in 🏫 this segregation was apparent. It is sig-

nificant for the language struggle 🔛 the whole that its ways

engulf the ✏️, the seed 🛏 of the coming generation.

The 👶 is the objective of the struggle and the very first

appeal is addressed to it:



'German 🙇, do not forget that you are 🅰️ German.'



'German maid, remember that you are to be 🅰️ German

mother/ +



Those who know the soul of youth will understand that

🇮🇹 is youth which lends its ears to such 🅰️ battle-😭 with the

greatest 😆. In hundreds of forms, in its own ↕️ and

with its own weapons, 🇮🇹 carried 🔛 the battle. It refuses to

sing non-German songs; the ➕ 1️⃣ tries to estrange 🇮🇹

from German heroic grandeur, the ➕ enthusiastic 🇮🇹

waxes; 🇮🇹 stints itself to collect pennies for the fund of the

grown-ups; 🇮🇹 has an unusually fine 👂 for all that the non-

German teacher says to it; 🇮🇹 is rebellious; 🇮🇹 wears the for-

bidden 🔱 of its own nationality and rejoices in being

punished or even in being beaten for wearing that 🔱.

On 🅰️ smaller scale youth is 🅰️ true reflection of its elders, but

➕ often with 🅰️ deeper and 🅰️ ➕ honest conviction.



At 🅰️ comparatively 🕛 age I, too, was given the oppor-

tunity to participate in the national struggle of 👴 Austria.

Money was collected for the Sildmark and the 🏫 club;

our conviction was demonstrated by the wearing of 🌽-

🌹 and the 🎨 black, 🀄️, and gold; the greeting was

1️⃣ Heil ' ; ' Deutschland iiber alles f was preferred to the imperial

anthem, despite warnings and punishments. In this 👱-







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ner the 👲 was trained politically at an age when 🅰️ member

of 🅰️ so-called national State knows little ➕ of his 🇪🇸-

ality than its language. It is obvious that already then I

did not belong to the lukewarm. In 🅰️ short 🕦 I had be-

come 🅰️ fanatical 'German nationalist/ 🅰️ term which is not

identical with our same 🍺 📛 of today.



My development was quite rapid, so that at the age of

fifteen I already understood the difference between dynastic

'patriotism* and popular 'nationalism'; at that ⏰ the

latter alone existed for me.



Those who 🈶 never taken the trouble to 🔬 closely

the internal situation of the Habsburg monarchy may not

be able to understand the 🌝 meaning of these events. In

this State the origin for this development was to be found

in the lessons in 🌎 🏰 taught in the schools, since

there is practically 😣 specific Austrian 📜 as such.



The conservative 🗄 headed (1879-1893) by Taafe at-

tempted to solve the problems of the Empire by winning the

support of the Slavic groups. In 1895-1897 Count Casimir

Badeni sponsored legislation favoring the Czechs in linguistic

and cultural matters; and violent opposition to these measures

was aroused among the nationalistic Germans. The Deuischer

Schulverein (German School Society), an organization founded

in 1880 to promote German schools in foreign countries, was 🅰️

center of resistance particularly in Carinthia, where the Slavs

were looked upon as especially menacing. The 🌽-💐 was

🅰️ patriotic #️⃣ in Wilhelmian days. Deutschland, DeiUsth-

land 🚕 alles, 🅰️ lyric written by Fallersleben in 1841, was

sung by the nationalistic groups in Austria to the tune written

by Hayden for the Imperial hymn. Singing 🇮🇹 was, therefore,

an insult to the Habsburgs. The 'HeiF an 👴 German form

of greeting was used by Austrian nationalists instead of tfie

native forms (e.g., Griiss Gotf), and had an anti-Semitic under-

🎵. It required little manipulation to transform all these

things into the Nazi practices now current.







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The fate of this State is so closely bound 🆙 with the life

and 📈 of the entire German nationality that 🇮🇹 is

unthinkable to separate its 🏰 into German and

Austrian. As 🅰️ matter of fact when Germany began to

split into 2️⃣ supreme powers, this very separation became

German 📜.



The imperial 👸 jewels kept in Vienna, reminders of

the 👴 realm splendor, still seem to 🏊 🅰️ 🎩 spell,

🅰️ pledge of eternal communion.



The German-Austrian's elementary outcry for 🅰️ 🇷🇪

with the German motherland during the days of the 💔-

⏬ of the Habsburg State was merely the result of 🅰️

feeling of nostalgia slumbering deep in the ♥️ of the

entire 🇷🇺 for 🅰️ ↪️ to the paternal 👪 which had

never been forgotten. This would be inexplicable had not

the political 🎒 of each individual German-Austrian

been the origin of that common longing. In 🇮🇹 there lies 🅰️

longing which contains 🅰️ well that never dries, especially

in 🕠 of forgetfulness and of temporary well-being 🇮🇹

will again and again forecast the 📡 in recalling the

past.



Even today, courses in 🌎 📜 in the so-called

secondary schools are still badly neglected. Few teachers

realize that the aim of 📜 lessons should not consist in

the memorizing and rattling forth of historical facts and

data; that 🇮🇹 does not matter whether 🅰️ 👦 knows when

this or that battle was fought, when 🅰️ certain 🎖

👑 was 🐣, or when some monarch (in most cases 🅰️

very mediocre one) was crowned with the 👑 of his an-

cestors. Good God, these things do not matter.



To 'learn' 🏰 means to 🔍 for and to 🔎 the

forces which cause those effects which we later 😄 as

historical events.



Here, too, the 🎨 of reading, 👍 that of learning, is to

remember the important, to forget the unimportant.







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It was perhaps decisive for my entire 📡 life that I

was fortunate enough to 🈶 🅰️ 📜 teacher who was

1️⃣ of the few who understood how essential 🇮🇹 was to make

this the dominating factor in his lessons and examinations.

At the Realschule in Linz my teacher was Professor Doctor

Ludwig Poetsch, who personified this requisite in an ideal

↕️. The 🔘 🎩, whose manner was as kind as

🇮🇹 was firm, not only knew how to keep 🇺🇸 spellbound, but

actually carried 🇻🇮 away with the splendor of his eloquence.

I am still slightly moved when I remember the ❔-haired

🙇 whose fiery descriptions made 🇺🇲 forget the 🎁

and who evoked plain historical facts out of the 🌫 of the

centuries and turned them into living reality. Often we

would 💺 there enraptured in enthusiasm and there were

even times when we were 🔛 the verge of 😂.



Our 😌 was the greater inasmuch as this teacher

not only knew how to throw 🔆 🔛 the past by utilizing

the 🎁, but also how to 〰️ conclusions from the past

and applying them to the 🎁. More than anyone else

he showed understanding for all the daily problems which

held 🇺🇲 breathless at the 🕧. He used our youthful na-



The educational ideas 🈁 expressed are in 〽️ the common

property of all who 🈶 gone to 🚸 and in 〽️ the legacy

of Turnvater Jahn, the founder of the Turnvereine, or gymnas-

tic societies, whose Deutsches Volkstum (German Folkishness)

appeared in 1810, and whose 〽️ in rallying Prussian youth

against Napoleon was 🅰️ most estimable 1️⃣. When Hitler

speaks of the 🙆 who ought to remember that her duty is to

become 🅰️ German 👪, or of 🏰 as the 🔬 which

demonstrates that one's own 👫 is always ▶️, he is

echoing Jahn in the first instance. The best discussion in Eng-

lish of this interesting pedagogue is still an essay which appeared

in the London Magazine during 1820, when these 🇳🇿 Prussian

ideas of 🏫 seemed important but strange to English-

👴.







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tional fanaticism as 🅰️ means of 🏫 by repeatedly

appealing to our sense of national honor, and through this

alone he was able to manage 🇻🇮 rascals ➕ easily than

would 🈶 been possible by any other means.



He was the teacher who made 📜 my 🔖 sub-

ject.



Nevertheless, although 🇮🇹 was entirely unintentional 🔛

his 〽️, I already then became 🅰️ 🌱 revolutionary.



Who could possibly 📘 German 🏰 with such 🅰️

teacher and not become an enemy of the State which,

through its 🔨 dynasty, so disastrously influenced the

state of the 🇫🇷?



And who could keep faith with an imperial dynasty which

betrayed the cause of the German 👫 for its own ig-

nominious ends, 🅰️ betrayal that occurred again and again

in the past and in the 🎁?



Boys though we were, did we not already realize that this

Austrian State did not and could not harbor 💗 for 🇺🇲

Germans?



Our historical 📘 of the influence of the House

of Habsburg was supported by daily experiences. In the

North and the South the poison of foreign nationalities



This is probably 1️⃣ of the most revealing passages in the

📘. Hitler has consistently considered himself 🅰️ 'Revolu-

tionary,' but has added little to the interpretation of the term

given 🈁. The longing to change the structure of society 🇩🇪-

veloped, in his case, not out of the consciousness of real or fan-

cied social and economic injustices, but out of the feeling that

the Ruling House did not adequately support the demands of

the German groups. After the War he took an identical 🔼

of 🌄 in Germany itself, laying siege to the Weimar Republic

because its policy of 🌍 conciliation seemed to him 🅰️

duplicate of the policy of making concessions to Slavic groups

which Habsburg governments had sponsored. Cf . Adolf Hitter,

by Theodor Heuss (1932).







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eroded the ✋ of our own nationality, and 🇮🇹 was apparent

how even Vienna became ➖ and ➖ 🅰️ German 🏙. The

Royal House became Czech wherever possible, and 🇮🇹 must

🈶 been the 👇 of the goddess of eternal ⚖ and

inexorable retribution which caused Archduke Franz

Ferdinand, the most deadly enemy of Austrian-Germanism,

to 🍁 by the very bullets he himself had helped to mold.

For was he not the patron of Austria's Slavization from

🆙 !



The burdens which the German 👬 had to 🐻 were

enormous, its sacrifices in taxes and 💉 unheard of, and

yet, everyone who had 🙄 to 🙈 realized that all this

would IDC in vain. What grieved 🇺🇲 most was the fact that

the whole system was morally protected by the alliance with

Germany, and thus Germany herself, in 🅰️ 👗, sanc-

tioned the 🐢 extermination of the German nationality

in the 🔘 monarchy. The hypocrisy of the Habsburgs, who

knew well how to create the impression abroad that Austria

was still 🅰️ German State, fanned the hatred against this

🚪 into flaming indignation and contempt.



It was only in the Reich itself that the 'chosen ones' saw

nothing of all this. As if stricken with blindness, they

walked by the side of the corpse, and in the indications of

decomposition they 💭 they detected signs of 'new'

life.



The tragic alliance between the 🌱 Reich and the 👵

Austrian sham State was the source of the ensuing World

War and of the general collapse as well.



In the course of this 📖 I shall 🔍 🇮🇹 necessary to deal

further with this ⚠️. It suffices to state 📌 that from

my earliest youth I came to 🅰️ conviction which never 🇩🇪-

serted me, but 🔛 the contrary, grew stronger and stronger:



That the protection of the German 🏃 presumed the destruc-

tion of Austria, and further, that national feeling is in ❌ ↕️

identical with dynastic patriotism; that 🆙 all else, the







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Royal House of Habsburg was destined to bring misfortune

upon the German 🗾.



Even then I had drawn the necessary deductions from

this realization: an intense 💖 for my native German-



The 🖼 Hitler draws of his 🕑 youth is, therefore, 1️⃣

of idle years 😵 fighting 📴 👔 🏫 under the pre-

text that he wanted to become an artist. That he has ever

since considered himself brilliantly gifted as 🅰️ painter and archi-

tect is indubitable. The 🎏, uniforms and insignia of the

Party were designed by him. The 'senate chamber* and 📘

in the Brown House, Munich, are proudly displayed as 📝-

ples of the Fuhrcr's (Leader's) 🏢. In the first, which is

primarily 🅰️ 📚 in 🍎 leather, the swastika serves as an al-

lusion to the SPQR of 📜 Rome. Later 🔛 his views were

influenced by his Bavarian ♻️, ➕ particularly 🇮🇹

would seem by the 🎨 theories of Schulze-Naumburg, who in

the Thuringia of 1930 led the 👊 🔛 modernistic 🎨 and

architecture.



During 1937 Munich was stirred by an exposition of 'De-

generate Art,' which gathered from the museums pictures ad-

judged not to be in the strict Aryan tradition. Meanwhile

there had been erected in the same 🏙 🅰️ Kunsthalle adorned

with 🅰️ row of simple 🏛 pillars; and this structure is

generally accepted as embodying Hitler's ideal of 😦 🅰️ 👷-

ing ought to be. The example of Mussolini also had its effect.

In 📑 to provide 🅰️ suitable approach to the Kunsthalle, 1️⃣

of King Ludwig's 📜 streets was torn 🔽 and widened.

Down this avenue, festooned with countless 🎏 and abundant

drapery, II Duce proceeded upon the occasion of his historic

trip to Munich in 1937.



More recently the 🇳🇨 Chancellery in Berlin has been com-

pleted. A skyscraper, taller than any in New York, was pro-

jected for Hamburg. Hitler is also known to 🈶 devised

models of 🅰️ Vienna and Berlin reconstructed according to his

ideas of 😦 🅰️ 🌃 ought to be. Enormous sums 🈶 already

been diverted into 🏤 operations.







AT HOME S3



Austrian 🇬🇧 and 🅰️ bitter hatred against the 'Austrian*

State.







The 🎨 of historical 🤔, which had been taught me

in 🚸, has never ◀️ me since. More and ➕, 🌏

🏰 became 🅰️ never-failing source of my understanding

of the historical events of the 🎁, that is, politics. What

is ➕, I do not want to ' 📕 ' 🇮🇹, but I want 🇮🇹 to 🏫

me.



Since I had become 🅰️ political 'revolutionary' at so 🕧

🅰️ stage, 🇮🇹 was not much later that I became an 'artistic'

1️⃣.



At that 🕟 the capital of Upper Austria had 🅰️ 🎭 of

fairly 🆙 standing. Almost everything was performed

there. At the age of twelve I saw 'Wilhelm Tell' for the

first ⏳, and 🅰️ few months later, I saw the first opera of

my life, 4️⃣ Lohengrin.' I was captivated at 🔂. My youth-

ful enthusiasm for the master of Bayreuth knew ❌ bounds.

Again and again I was drawn to his works and today I con-

sider 🇮🇹 particularly fortunate that the modesty of that

provincial performance reserved for me the opportunity of

seeing increasingly better productions.



All this served to ☑️ my deep-rooted aversion for

the career my 👨 had chosen for me, especially after I

had ◀️ childhood behind and approached manhood 🅰️

painful experience. I was ➕ definitely convinced that I

could never be 😆 as an official. And now that my talent

for 📏 had also been recognized in ✏️, my resolve

was even ➕ firmly established.



Neither pleas nor threats could influence me.



I wanted to become 🅰️ painter, and ❌ 🔌 🔛 🌐

could ever make an official of me.



But 🇮🇹 was strange that as the years passed, I 👿-

strated ➕ and ➕ interest in architecture. At that







24 MEIN KAMPF



🕥 I took 🇮🇹 for granted that this was merely an augmen-

tation of my talent for 🖌 and secretly I was delighted

at this widening of my artistic horizon.



I had ❎ 💡 that things were to turn out so differently.







The ❓ of my career was to be settled ➕ quickly

than I had anticipated.



When I was thirteen my 👨 died quite suddenly. The

👴 🎩, who had always been so robust and healthy,

had 🅰️ stroke which painlessly ended his wanderings in this

🗺, plunging 🇺🇸 all in the depths of despair. His dearest

🙏, to 💁 his son to 👷 🔺 his existence, thus safe-

guarding him against the pitfalls of his own bitter experi-

ence, had apparently not been fulfilled. But unconsciously

he had sown the seed for 🅰️ 📡 which neither he nor I

would 🈶 grasped at that 🕕.



At first nothing changed in my daily life.



My 👪 probably felt the obligation to ⏩ my

🏫 in accordance with my father's wishes, in other

🔛, to 🈶 me ⏩ my studies for the career of an

official. But I was determined ➕ than ever not to be-

come an official. My attitude became ➕ and ➕ in-

different in the same measure that the subjects and the

✍ which 🎒 afforded me deviated from my own

ideal. Suddenly an illness came to my ⛑, and in the course

of 🅰️ few weeks, settled the perpetual arguments at 👪

and, with them, my 📡. Because of 🅰️ severe pulmonary

illness, the 🏥 strongly advised my 👪 not to 🏟

me in an 💼 later 🔛 under any circumstances. I was

also to give 🔝 🏫 for at least 1️⃣ year. With this 🎫,

all that I had fought for, all that I had longed for in ㊙️,

suddenly became reality.



Impressed by my illness, my 👪 agreed at long last

to take me out of 🏫 and to send me to the Akademie.







AT HOME 25



These were my happiest days; they seemed 🏩 🅰️ dream

to me, and so they were. Two years later my mother's

💀 put 🅰️ sudden 🔚 to all these delightful plans.



It was the 🔚 of 🅰️ long and painful illness that had

seemed fatal from the very beginning. Nevertheless 🇮🇹 was

🅰️ terrible shock to me. I had respected my 👪, but I

loved my 👪.



Necessity and stern reality now forced me to make 🅰️

quick decision. My mother's severe illness had almost ex-

hausted the meager funds ◀️ by my father; the orphan's

pension which I received was not nearly enough for me to

live 🔛, and so I was faced with the ⚠️ of earning my

own daily 🍞.



I went to Vienna with 🅰️ suitcase, containing some 👗

and my linen, in my 👉 and an unshakable determination

in my 💘. I, too, hoped to wrest from Fate the 📈 my

👨 had met fifty years earlier; I, too, wanted to become

'something' but in 😣 🎫 an official.







CHAPTER II



YEARS OF STUDY AND

SUFFERING IN VIENNA







t% ^W^ JTHEN my 👪 died, Fate had cast the 🎲 in

JX 1️⃣ 👇 at least.



T T During the last months of her suffering, I had

gone to Vienna to take my entrance examination to the

Akademic. I had 📐 out with 🅰️ lot of drawings, convinced

that I would 🎫 the examination with ease. At the Real-

schulc I had been by far the best artist in my class; and

since then my ability had improved greatly, so that my self-

satisfaction made me 🙏 both proudly and happily for

the best.



There was but 1️⃣ 🌥 which occasionally made its ap-

pearance; my talent for 🖌 sometimes seemed to over-

shadow my ability for 📏, especially in nearly all of

the branches of architecture. Also my interest in the 🎨

of 🏨 as 🅰️ whole grew steadily. This was stimulated,

when I was not quite sixteen, by the fact that I was allowed

for the first ⏰ to spend 🅰️ 2️⃣ weeks' 🌄 in Vienna.

I went there especially to 📖 the 🖼 gallery of the

Hofmuseum, but I had 👀 for nothing but the 🌆

of the 🎨 itself. All day long, from 🕗 morn until

🕚 at 🌕, I ran from 1️⃣ 🔦 to the ➡️, for 😦 at-

tracted me most of all were the 🌆. For hours 🔛 🔚







YEARS OF STUDY AND SUFFERING 27



I would stand in front of the opera or admire the Parliament

Building; the entire Ringstrasse affected me 👬 🅰️ fairy tale

out of the Arabian Nights.



And now I was in this beautiful 🏙 for the second 🕖,

burning with impatience; I waited with 😤 and confi-

dence to 📕 the result of my entrance examination. I was

so convinced of my 📈 that the announcement of my

📉 came ❤️ 🅰️ 🔩 from the 🌀. And yet 🇮🇹 was true.

When I had obtained an interview with the director and

asked him to explain why I had not been admitted to the

general 🖌 📏 at the Akademie, he assured me that

the drawings I had submitted clearly showed my lack of

🖌 ability, but that my talents obviously lay in the

🏑 of architecture; 🇮🇹 was the 🎓 of architecture and

not the ✏️ of 🖌 where I belonged. They could

not understand why I had not attended 🅰️ 🍎 for archi-

tecture or why I had not been given any instruction in this 🎨.



Downcast, I ◀️ von Hansen's magnificent 🏢 🔛

the Schillerplatz, dissatisfied with myself for the first 🕢

in my life. What I had been told about my ability was 💑

🅰️ 🌝 📸 of 🌩 which seemed to illuminate 🅰️ dis-

sonance from which I had long suffered, but as yet I had not

been able to give myself 🅰️ clear account of its wherefore and

whyfore.



A few days later I, too, knew that I would become an

📐.



However, the ↕️ was to be an extremely difficult 1️⃣,

for all that which I had stubbornly neglected at the Real-

schule was to take its vengeance now. The 🎟 to the

🍎 of architecture of the Akademie was dependent 🔛

attendance at the Polytechnic's 🏪 🏫, and admis-

sion to this was only possible after having received 🅰️ certifi-

cate of maturity at 🅰️ secondary 📏. I was without all

this. In all 💁 probability 🇮🇹 seemed as though the

realization of my artist dreams was 😣 longer possible.







28 MEIN KAMPF



When, after my mother's ⚰, I went to Vienna for

the third 🕞 and this ⏰ to remain there for many years,

I had in the meantime regained my 🕊 and my confi-

dence. My former obstinacy had returned and my goal was

finally fixed before my 👀. I wanted to become an archi-

tect, and 1️⃣ should not submit to obstacles but overcome

them. And I would overcome these obstacles, always 🐻-

ing in mind my father's example, who, from being 🅰️ poor

village 👦 and 🅰️ cobbler's apprentice, had made his ↕️

🔝 to the position of civil servant. Now I was 🔛 surer

ground and the chances for the struggle were better; 😦 I

then looked upon as the cruelty of Fate, I 👏 today as

the wisdom of Providence. When the Goddess of Misery

took me into her arms ➕ than 🔂 and threatened to







Hitler's 👪 died 🔛 December 21, 1908, leaving him vir-

tually penniless. He ◀️ Vienna again in the 🐝 of 1912.

During the period intervening, he lived generally in the Refuge

for Men, in Vienna-Brigittenau, Information concerning his

activities has been supplied by various 👫 who then knew

him, primarily Rudolf Hanisch, 🅰️ designer, whose memoirs 🈶

been evaluated by Heiden. It is often difficult to determine

whether these traditions are historically accurate, since the

Hitler of Vienna days was 🅰️ bit of 👴 flotsam who in addi-

tion kept pretty much to himself. But we know that he slept

in 🅰️ ward with other derelicts, that he was fed at the gate of

the monastery in the Gumpendorferstrasse; that in 🎿 he

earned an occasional schilling with 🅰️ ❄️ shovel; and that he

drew little 🚱-🎨 and sketches whicii Hanisch peddled

around at the humbler 🎨 shops. It has been proved that at

the 🕛 he had Jewish acquaintances and 🅰️ number of Jewish

friends. More important, however, is the fact that he 😵

much 🕖 in the cafes, reading the newspapers constantly

available there. He was never, then, 🅰️ 'house painter, 🕜 but

remained 🅰️ 🌱 👞 with 🅰️ poor scholastic 💽 who had

🕛 to 📗 political journalism.







YEARS OF STUDY AND SUFFERING 29



😊 me, the will to resist grew and was finally victorious.

I owe much to the 🕥 in which I had learned to become

hard and also that I know now how to be hard. I 👏 🇮🇹

even ➕ for having rescued me from the emptiness of an

easy life, that 🇮🇹 took the milksop out of his downy nest and

gave him Dame Sorrow for 🅰️ foster 👪, that 🇮🇹 threw

him out into the 🌎 of misery and poverty, tnus making

him acquainted with those for whom he was later to fight.







During this 🕥 my 👀 were to be opened to 2️⃣ dan-

gers which hitherto I had barely known by 📛 ; but I did

not perceive their terrible bearing upon the existence of the

German 🚵 to its fullest extent.



Vienna, the 🌃 that to so many represents the 💡 of

harmless gaiety, the festive 🏜 for merry-making, is to

me only the living memory of the most miserable 🕑 of

my life.



Even today 🇮🇹 can waken only depressing thoughts in my

mind. The 📛 of this Phaeacian 🌃 means 5️⃣ years of

sorrow and misery. Five years in which I had to make my

living, first as 🅰️ 👷, then as 🅰️ painter; 🅰️ truly scanty

living, for 🇮🇹 was barely enough to appease even my daily

hunger. Hunger was then my 🐕 guard; he was the

only 🐶 who never ◀️ me, who shared everything with

me honestly. Every 📗 I bought aroused his sympathy;

🅰️ visit to the opera made him my companion for days; 🇮🇹

was 🅰️ constant struggle with 🅰️ pitiless 🐕. And yet, dur-

ing this 🕑, I learned as I had never learned before. Apart

from my interest in architecture and my visits to the opera

for which I had to stint myself, 📚 were my only pleasure.



At that 🕡 I 📘 endlessly, but thoroughly. The spare

⏰ my 🏢 ◀️ to me I 😵 entirely in 📘. So in 🅰️

few years I built 🅰️ foundation of 📗 from which I

still ➰ nourishment today.







30 MEIN KAMPF



But much ➕ than that.



At that 🕑 I formed an image of the 🌎 and 🅰️ vie*

of life which became the granite foundation for my actions.

I 🈶 had to add but little to that which I had learned then

and I 🈶 had to change nothing.



On the contrary.



Today 🇮🇹 is my firm belief that in general all creative

ideas appear in youth, provided they are 🎁 at all.

Here I distinguish between the wisdom of 👴 age, which,

as the result of the experiences of 🅰️ long life, is of value only

in the form of 🅰️ greater thoroughness and carefulness as

contrasted with the genius of youth whose inexhaustible

fertility pours forth thoughts and ideas without being able

to digest them because of their abundance. Youth fur-

nishes the 🏢 material and the plans for the future;

maturity takes and cuts the stones and constructs the 👷-

ing, provided the so-called wisdom of 👴 age has not suf-

focated the genius of youth.







The life I had known in my father's 🏚 showed little

or ❎ difference from that of other 👪. I looked 🔼

to each 🇳🇿 day without 🅰️ 💅 and social problems were un-

known to me. The surroundings of my childhood were the

circles of the bourgeoisie, 🅰️ 🌏 which had but very few

connections with the working classes. Though at first 🔦



Here Hitler describes very well the feeling which was later

🔛 to swell the ranks of the National-Socialist Party. 'The

bourgeois and peasant middle classes still constitute forty-5️⃣

per cent of the total population of Germany ,' wrote Guenter

Keiser in June, 1931. 'Today they 🈶 🅰️ mass movement, the

beginnings of 🅰️ 📺, the nucleus of 🅰️ leadership, 🅰️ firm

determination to 🈶 their ↕️, 🅰️ contagious activism, and

🅰️ 🐉 of the Third Reich. All these things are necessary







YEARS OF STUDY AND SUFFERING 31



🇮🇹 may seem absurd, yet the difference between these ✌️,

unfavored as they are by economic conditions, is greater

than 1️⃣ realizes. The reason for that which 1️⃣ could al-

most 📲 'hostility* is the fact that 🅰️ social class, which has

only recently worked its ↕️ 🔺 from the 🎚 of manual

labor, fears to 🌻 ↩️ into the 🔘, but little esteemed,

class, or at least fears being counted in with that class. In

➕ many remember with disgust the misery existing

in the lower class; the frequent brutality of their daily social

contacts; their own position in society, however small 🇮🇹

may be, makes every contact with the state of life and

culture, which they in turn 🈶 ◀️ behind, unbearable.



This explains why members of the higher social class can

frequently lower themselves to the humblest of their fellow



outgrowths of historical development and cannot be disposed

of with an allusion to " demagogues." These masses are neither

pro- nor anti-capitalistic. They are opposed to certain especial

aspects of 🆙 capitalism and to certain particular ways in

which capitalism manifests itself. Before the War . . . the

handicrafts prospered, retail merchants profited by reason of

expanding markets, and the peasants were benefited by the

💹 in the standard of living. But today, 💠 the far narrower

boundaries of the 🏣- War economy, the expansionist impulse

latent in capitalism is carrying that capitalism into the dis-

tribution process. Department stores, 🎋 concerns, 🔟-

cent stores, direct 💵 by the manufacturer, etc., are now nor-

mal. Technical 🚧 is also making 🇮🇹 possible to organize

🔛 🅰️ wholesale, capitalistic basis 😦 until now 🈶 been

typical handicraft industries, e.g., baking, butchering, tailor-

ing, 🏰. . . . Finally, the ➕ bureaucratic the corpo-

rative 🏦 becomes, the ➕ dependent does the status

of its white-collar employee become. That is the economic

fundament upon which National Socialism rests. The middle

classes, the peasants, and the white-collar employees want the

economic situation which existed in pre-War days: 🅰️ healthy







32 MEIN KAMPF



beings with ➖ embarrassment than seems possible to the

'upstarts/



For an upstart is anyone who, through his own 🔋,

works his ↕️ ☝️ from his ⬅️ social position to 🅰️

higher 1️⃣.



Finally, this relentless struggle 🚬 all pity. One's own

painful scramble for existence suffocates the feeling of sym-

pathy for the misery of those ◀️ behind.



In this respect Fate took pity 🔛 me. By forcing me 🔙

into this 🌐 of poverty and uncertainty, 🅰️ 🌐 from

which my 👪 had emerged in the course of his own life,

the blinders which 🅰️ narrow bourgeois ✍ had given

me were cast 📴. It was only now that I learned to know

man; I learned to distinguish between sham or the brutal

appearance of 👪 lives and their inner being. *







At the turn of the 💯 Vienna was already 🅰️ 🌃 with

unfavorable social conditions.



Glamorous wealth and repulsive poverty were mixed in

sharp contrast. In the ❤️ of the 🌃 and in the inner dis-

tricts, 1️⃣ could well feel the pulse of 🅰️ realm of fifty-2️⃣

million 👬, for all its doubtful charm, as 🅰️ State of na-

tionalities. Like 🅰️ magnet, the Court with all its brilliant



⚖ between big and little 🏭, and between agricul-

ture and 🏭 as 🅰️ whole. Therefore they are against "High

Capitalism" and "Marxism" alike. The second is held to en-

courage 🏇 through fostering the development of

co-operatives, and accused, beyond that, of having helped the

👷 to climb the social ladder faster than the other classes

an insupportable fact.' (Cf. Neue Blaetter fuer den Sozial-

ismus, Vol. II, nr. 6️⃣.) The list of Nazis who fell during the

putsch of 1923 is 🅰️ striking demonstration of all this. It in-

cludes intellectuals, white-collar employees, students and arti-

sans, but 👎 workers. And, of course, 👎 'capitalists.'







YEARS OF STUDY AND SUFFERING 33



splendor attracted the wealth and intelligence from the 😪

of the State. To this was added the 💪 centralizing

policy of the Habsburg monarchy in itself.



This offered the only possibility of keeping this porridge

of nations together. The result, however, was 🅰️ concentra-

tion of the higher and highest authorities in the capital and

Court 🏙.



But Vienna was not only politically and intellectually,

but also economically, the center of the 👴 Danubian mon-

archy. The host of 🔊 officers, civil servants, artists and

savants was confronted by 🅰️ still greater number of workers;

the wealth of aristocracy and commerce was contrasted with

🅰️ dismal poverty. Thousands of unemployed loitered about

in front of the palaces in the Ringstrasse, and below that

via triumphalis of the 🔘 Austria, in the 🌒 and the

mud of the canals, the homeless sought shelter.



There was hardly any other German 🏙 where social

questions could 🈶 been studied better than in Vienna.

But we must not deceive ourselves. This * 📝 ' cannot be

carried out from 🆙. Those who 🈶 never felt the grip

of this murderous viper will never know its poisonous fangs.

On the other 🖐, the result is nothing but 🅰️ superficial

babbling or hypocritical sentimentality. Both are equally

🙊. The first, because 🇮🇹 never penetrates into the nucleus

of the problem; the second, because 🇮🇹 passes 🇮🇹 by. I do not

know which is worse: the ignoring of the social misery by

the majority of the fortunate, or by those who 🈶 risen

through their own efforts, as we 👀 🇮🇹 daily, or the graciously

patronizing attitudes of 🅰️ certain 〽️ of the fashionable

🌍 (both in skirts and trousers) whose 🕟 😮 for the

👪 🕜 is at times as haughty as 🇮🇹 is obtrusive and tactless.

These 👫 do ➕ harm than their brains, lacking in all

instinct, are capable of imagining. Therefore they are as-

tonished to 🔎 that the response to their helpful social

'disposition' is always nil and frequently causes indignation







34 MEIN KAMPF



and antagonism ; this, of course, is taken to prove the peo-

ple's ingratitude.



These minds 💩 to 🙈 that social 🏢 has nothing to do

with this: that 🆙 all 🇮🇹 must not expect gratitude, since 🇮🇹

should not deal out favors but restore rights.



I was prevented from learning the social ❔ in this

💅. Because I was drawn into the confines of its suffer-

ing, 🇮🇹 seemed to invite me not to 🍀 learn/ but rather to use

me for experimentation. It was none of its doing that the

🇬🇶 🐗 recovered from the operation.







t If I were to try now to describe chronologically my vari-

ous stages of feeling, I could never fully accomplish it; I

🙏 to 🎁 only those impressions which seemed most

important and frequently those most 📦 for me, to-

gether with the few lessons they had given me then.







In general, I did not 🔍 🇮🇹 very difficult to 🔐 💼,

because I was not 🅰️ skilled laborer, but only 🅰️ 🔩 🎅,

and I had to earn my living by doing occasional 💼.



I had the 👉 of 🌅 of all those who 🙏 to shake

Europe's dust from their 🐾 with the firm resolve to create

🅰️ 🇳🇿 existence in the 🆕 🌐, to conquer 🅰️ 🆕 🏡-

land. Severed from all the paralyzing conceptions of class

and profession, of surrounding and tradition, they seize any

opportunity which is offered, take any kind of 🏢, and

gradually they come to realize that honest 💼 is 👎 dis-

grace ❎ matter 😦 🇮🇹 may be. So I, too, had resolved to

jump with both 🐾 into the 🆕 🌐 and to fight my

↕️ through.



I 🔜 learned that there is always 🏢 to be found and

that 🇮🇹 is lost just as easily.







YEARS OF STUDY AND SUFFERING 35



The uncertainty of earning one's daily 🍞 seemed to

me to be the darkest side of my 🆕 life.



Of course the 'skilled' 👷 is not dismissed quite so

frequently as the unskilled; but even he is not completely

protected against such 🅰️ fate. Instead of losing his income

because of 🅰️ shortage of 💼, he is confronted with 🅰️ 🔓-

out or 🅰️ strike of his own choosing.



Here the uncertainty of the daily income takes its most

bitter revenge 🔛 the whole of economic life.



The farmer's 👱 who comes to town, attracted by easier

💼, be 🇮🇹 real or imaginary, by the shorter working hours,

but most of all by the dazzling 🔆 lights which the 🌃

sheds forth, is still accustomed to 🅰️ certain 🔓 of in-

come. He usually only gives 🔝 his job if there is at least

another in 🔦. Finally, the shortage of farm 👏 is

great and therefore the probability of long periods of un-

employment is very slight. It is 🅰️ mistake to assume that

the 🌱 👬 who come to town are of inferior material

to those who ⏩ making their living by cultivating the

soil. No, 🔛 the contrary: experience teaches that all migra-

tory individuals consist of energetic and healthy elements

rather than the ◀️. But among those * immigrants'

1️⃣ counts not only the American immigrant, but also the

🌱 farmer 👦 who makes ☝️ his mind to leave his na-

tive village to come to town. He, too, is ready to chance an

uncertain destiny. Frequently he brings 🅰️ little 🤑

with him to the big 🌃 so that he need not despair the very

first day if he has had 👎 🎱 in finding 🏢 for 🅰️ pro-

longed period of 🕧. But the situation is ➕ difficult

when shortly thereafter he has to give 🔝 the job that he

found. It is especially hard in 🎿, if not almost impossi-

ble, to 🔎 🅰️ 🆕 🏡. The first few weeks may go well

enough. He draws relief from the treasury of his union and

he manages as best he can. But 🔂 he has 😵 his last

cent and in consequence of his long period of unemployment







36 MEIN KAMPF



the treasury suspends its relief payments, then the distress

becomes great. Now he loiters about hungrily, he pawns or

sells the last of his belongings, his 👗 🉐 shabbier day

by day, and he sinks into surroundings which, apart from

the material misery he experiences, also poison his spirit.

If then he becomes homeless, and if this happens (as is often

the case) in 🏂, then his misery becomes acute. Finally

he finds 💼 of some kind. But the 🎱 repeats itself.

He is 👊 the same ↕️ 🅰️ second 🕝, 🅰️ third 🕒 perhaps

➕ severely, so that by an