Submitted by Claude Bogardus, Aug 2, 2007 08:26

I have tried to read MEIN KAMPF several times. It is a tiresome text, full of nonsense, expressed in some sort of top-lofty prose aimed at posturing lumpen-intellectualoids. Rudolph Hess and Alfred Rosenberg, NAZI functionaries with their pretensions of academic credentials, may actually have read the thing from cover to cover, and nodded with comprehension and a guilty pleasure at having found a Fuehrer. I suspect that very few Germans ever read it, and most of them for show. Hitler's oratory led the German people to disaster. MEIN KAMPF sales merely provided the Fuehrer with a steady income, for every German home contained a copy.

There is NO valid intelligent argument fo a totalitarian state. But, once a society has mounted the beast, it discovers that it is impossible to continue to ride or death and destruction to dismount..

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