Fascism Through History: Culture, Ideology, and Daily Life [2 Volumes] by Zander Patrick G.;

Author:Zander, Patrick G.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2020-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

Further Reading

Avineri, Shlomo. The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968).

Blackledge, Paul. Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006).

Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto: With Related Documents, John E. Toews, ed. (Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999).

Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf, German for My Struggle, was a book written by Adolf Hitler. It served as his autobiography and as a political manifesto for his Nazi Party. Hitler dictated the book to his staff (including his personal secretary, Rudolf Hess) while serving his sentence in Landsberg Prison for his failed attempt to seize the government in 1923. The book was assembled into two volumes released in 1925 and 1926, respectively. It provides insight into Hitler’s rather deranged personal beliefs about his own providential destiny, the development of his obsessive belief in racial struggle, and his fanatical anti-Semitism. While the book reiterates the policies that the Nazi Party had been espousing for some time, Hitler added a new feature to his vision of German destiny—that of Germany’s inevitable expansion into the East, including the conquest of the Soviet Union. This, he said, would provide living space, or lebensraum, for the German race and destroy the fountainhead of world Communism at the same time. After Hitler’s assumption of power in 1933, the book became the most foundational text of the Nazi ideology; it was required reading in schools and was given to each new married couple in Germany on their wedding day.

Adolf Hitler led his Nazi Party in a coordinated attempt to seize the German government on November 8, 1923. Known as the Beer Hall Putsch, the coup attempt failed miserably, and Hitler stood trial for crimes of treason. Infamously, his judges at the trial were sympathetic to his views, themselves opponents of the Weimar Republic, and allowed him to make long political speeches during the trial. He was found guilty, but instead of a death sentence or life imprisonment (typical sentences for high treason), he was sentenced to five years in prison, of which he would only serve nine months. He served his sentence at Landsberg Prison along with some of his deputies, including his personal secretary at the time, Rudolf Hess. In prison, Hitler briefly fell into a deep depression and made the decision that the Nazis could not attain power through illegal force. In the future, he determined, the Nazis would have to come to power through the existing mechanisms of the Weimar Republic’s electoral system.

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