One month from now, Germany is set to experience something it has not seen in over 70 years: the publication of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. But, as the plot-spoiling title of this article suggests, this will not be the familiar original edition that many have come to know and love, but an academically-sanitized version refuting and decrying un-kosher claims made by the German leader, which The Independent, true to contemporary journalistic standards of impartiality, simply refers to as “lies”.

Annotate and annihilate

The layout of this edition will apparently be in the arrangement of a double-page format, showing the original text on one side with so-called “academic annotations” on the adjacent page. These annotations will be aimed at addressing and refuting Hitler’s claims – a lot of claims. In fact, as many claims that 3,500 sanitizing, whitewashing notes can hope to bury, in order to “challenge his anti-semitic rantings”, as The Independent puts it.

Although the 70-year copyright limit on Mein Kampf is now officially at an end, a wary German government is limiting access to the original text, lest the Fourth Reich instantly emerge, which, given the horrid state of affairs in Germany at the moment, together with the numerous traitors who desperately need to be summarily dealt with across much of Europe, would be no bad thing at all.

The 1,948-page Frankenstein’s monster edition of Hitler’s manifesto was stitched together by a team of four academics from the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) in Munich.

At present, the IfZ only plans to print a maximum of 4,000 copies.

While abridged editions of Mein Kampf already do exist, such as those carried by German libraries containing some omissions, in addition to the Reynal and Hitchcock translation, which contains annotations that provide something of a critique, the concept of a very heavily annotated edition for the purposes of actual refutation is certainly a first.

The Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) first announced plans for their annotated version of Mein Kampf in 2010, citing reasons of producing a work for educational purposes in schools and universities, in addition to act as something of a counterbalance to “neo-Nazi groups . . . appropriating this infamous book for themselves”.

We firmly connect Hitler’s text with our comments, so that both are always on the same double page. I could describe it in martial terms as a battle of annihilation — we are encircling Hitler with our annotations.”

– Dr Christian Hartmann (project leader, IfZ)

Although not possible to clarify with absolute certainty, it is quite possible that Dr Christian Hartmann is of Jewish ancestry. His surname can be of either pure ethnic German or German-Jewish origin. He was born in Heidelberg, but worked in a kibbutz in Israel in 1981.

So exactly why would a team of academics from the IfZ be interested in producing such a piece of work?

Of course part of the motive has to be kosher-leftist in nature. It always is when dealing with anything relating to Hitler, the Third Reich or Mein Kampf.

The Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ)

A little poking around here and there reveals that the IfZ does indeed have an agenda, a political axe to grind if you will, with Hitler and his manifesto.

To provide some background history, the IfZ, located in Munich, was established in 1949 with the express aim of studying National Socialism.

The Institute is currently funded not only by the German government, but also the states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony.

The influence of the government-funded IfZ Institute also extends to the following areas:

Publication of the influential quarterly Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, (Quarterly Journal of Contemporary History)

Wielding significant influence within academia, both in Germany and internationally, although remaining independent of the university system

Editing of the documents on foreign policy at the German Foreign Office

Researching the former East Germany and the field of “historical transformation”

Researched for and designed the Dokumentation Obersalzberg, at the historic location of Obersalzberg itself (above the town of Berchtesgaden), which now serves as a permanent exhibition and location for “guided learning” (or, more accurately put, kosher-approved indoctrination). One of the themes which receives particular attention is addressing the “mystification and cult of the Führer”. The site attracts an impressive 160,000 visitors annually

Overall, the IfZ Institute sounds very judeo-leftist in nature.

Regarding the new edition of Mein Kampf, Dr Christian Hartmann had the following comments to make:

It was important to us to reach many people so we have tried to create a very reader friendly edition.”

– Dr Christian Hartmann Dr Christian Hartmann, who led the team of academics, said if anyone could reproduce Hitler’s words it was better to have a scholarly version which refuted his lies.”

– The Independent

Stitch two snippets from each quote together, and the picture perhaps becomes a little clearer: “reach many people” and “refute[d] his lies”.

Institute for Contemporary History director Andreas Wirsching says the text with expert comments will “shatter the myth” surrounding the manifesto.”

– BBC News

Reading between the lines of this comment could very well be a revealing indicator of the covert levels of concern regarding the rising tide of nationalist sentiment currently taking place across Germany, and in fact much of Europe also. As hordes of unwelcome alien locusts cut swaths of destruction across the lands that the ancestors of today’s Europeans bled and died defending over the millennia, anger is growing. Righteous anger.

And “shattering the myths” of Mein Kampf probably couldn’t come at a better time for those Germans, either active traitors or the useful idiots, who are working very hard to rip the innards out of a once-proud nation.

The reaction of Jewish groups

Regarding the IfZ’s planned release of the annotated edition of Mein Kampf, there has been mixed reaction from Jewish groups.

Back in 2008, a spokesman for the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Stephan Kramer, voiced enthusiasm and even offered the support of the Council in the project.

Recently, as the publication of the book has drawn near however, Jewish groups have been voicing disapproval of the planned publication.

I am absolutely against the publication of ‘Mein Kampf,’ even with annotations. Can you annotate the Devil? Can you annotate a person like Hitler? This book is outside of human logic.”

– Levi Salomon (Berlin-based Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism)

This reaction from Jewish groups is both surprising, and oddly enough, not surprising at all.

It’s surprising in the sense that one would imagine their welcoming the opportunity of seeing Hitler’s ideas in Mein Kampf completely demolished in the public’s eyes. But at the very same time, not surprisingly at all in the sense that this venture may end up having the opposite effect of what is intended.

This may be the reason for the IfZ’s planned limit of 4,000 copies maximum at this stage – an experiment, a little trial to feel things out.

Refutations, confirmations and little white snowballs

After all, what if people start digging around, looking around, poking around, and started to refute the refutations themselves? Then you essentially have two negatives making a positive, and instead of refutation, you have confirmation.

Of course, only time will tell if anything of this nature occurs.

But confirmation is most definitely not supposed to be in the script, is it? Confirmation of Hitler’s claims. After all, that could very well unravel decades of agenda-driven propaganda regarding Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Second World War.

The inescapable fact of the matter is that the foundations of our modern leftist society are to a large extent driven by a constant counteraction to the (perceived) events surrounding this momentous leader, movement and period in our history. Hence confirmation of Hitler’s assertions made in Mein Kampf could hypothetically rock the boat of our whole society.

A whole heap of little white snowballs could very well start rolling down the mountain and become something very big indeed, perhaps even triggering an avalanche that no one and nothing can stop.

Now that would be a very un-kosher thing to happen, wouldn’t it?

References

The Independent: New Mein Kampf to be released – and it will debunk all of Hitler’s lies: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mein-kampf-hitlers-antisemitic-manifesto-to-be-republished-in-germany-for-the-first-time-in-70-years-a6756766.html

BBC News – Annotated Hitler’s Mein Kampf to be published in Germany: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34980701

The Times Europe – New Mein Kampf refutes Hitler’s rants: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4629235.ece

Wikipedia – Mein Kampf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf

Wikipedia – Institut für Zeitgeschichte: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Zeitgeschichte

Wikipedia – Christian Hartmann (Historiker): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Hartmann_(Historiker)

House of Names – Hartmann Family Crest, Coat of Arms and Name History: https://www.houseofnames.com/hartmann-family-crest

Dokumentation Obersalzberg: http://www.obersalzberg.de/obersalzberg-home.html?&L=1

Dokumentation Obersalzberg – Dokumentation Flyer (pdf file): http://www.obersalzberg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/Doku_Flyer/Folder_DO_englisch_web.pdf

Institute of Contemporary History Munich – Berlin: http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/institute-museen/einrichtungen/ifz/