"Mein Kampf" is the work that has largely moved the world so far this century, one of the most sinister and evil characters in history as its author. It is printed millions of copies and has been poured into all the languages of civilized peoples. Its author, conductor and head of the great Germany is one of the biggest personalities of all time.
A man of thirty years of modest appearance, wearing a raincoat and accompanied by a splendid dog, wolf, up the Obersalzberg in the Bavarian Alps, and calls for the hostel accommodation in Berchtesgaden.
- I want a quiet corner-requested - it may work without being bothered.
After asking ink and paper, is enclosed in a room that has been designed. For days she stays in, making up the food, always very frugal and only at dawn could be seen walking through the woods with his faithful dog.
The stranger rides unusual intrigue eventually the other inhabitants of the hotel. Who will be taciturn and reserved man who seems not to listen to someone who speaks? Was it indeed a terrorist who was planning another attack? Many revolutionaries had just left Munich, following the collapse of the Soviet Bavarian hiding in unexpected places to escape the police. Would not it be prudent to warn the authorities? The hostel owner reassures guests. Knows his customer. It is a place, 16 demobilized Reserve Infantry Regiment Bavarian. Although fought alongside German troops during the war, is of Austrian nationality. He called himself Dr. Weber, but his real name was Adolph Hitler. Most like a dreamer, a visionary, that a man of action. His important work was a mere political pamphlet, setting out their views on the future of the Reich. In short, nothing sensational, as it appeared at that time every day dozens of pamphlets of this kind.
During this, time, Adolf Hitler, in his room, filled with leaves leaves and more rapid and brief letter Its pages are the first sketches of Mein Kampf.
The increasing gravity of the events demands their immediate presence in Munich. Interrupt your manuscript and return to the Bavarian capital to join the German Workers' Party. It occupies all his time in organizing the party and in public meetings.
It soon became head of Hitler's National Socialist movement and begins to play a leading role in domestic politics Bavarian. Meanwhile, the manuscript sleeps in a folder, its author, constantly forced to act in the political turmoil, can not continue, for now, his work. Only after the failure of the coup d'état of November 9, 1923 may be Hitler, being detained by the Bavarian police, tried by the courts and imprisoned in the fortress of Landsberg-sur-la-Lech, continue with the drafting of his interrupted work .
For more than fifteen months working tirelessly in the miserable cell, aided by a young Party member named Rudolf Hess, who serves as secretary. Mrs. Bechstein, akin to the famous piano manufacturer, visited them daily. Under the folds of her dress hides, increasingly, some leaves of the mysterious manuscript, to give to the press of the party. The first volume appears in 1925. The second followed two years apart.
At first the work goes almost unnoticed. Only a small core of insiders talk about it with enthusiasm. "It will be the gospel of the new Germany!" Proclaim with deep conviction. "The prophetic book of a new Reich will be born!" Others added, menacingly: "This book contains tons of dynamite. With it will skip the Weimar Republic!"
Gradually the book draws critical attention and triggered a fit of anger and disapproval. All press is produced with a tone of general condemnation. "The author is a fool, a megalomaniac, a hysterical!" shout it out everywhere. "This book is a monument of stupidity and savagery! His ideas, if they can qualify and confusing predictions, contained in these pages - show a spirit primitive, uneducated and unbalanced. God willing, Germany never has to be ruled by this man! deserves to be detained in a mental hospital, why this book has been so successful? only for its content? You may not, and Hitler the first to admit:
"Once and be convinced men of letters: The pen has not begotten, ever, the great revolutions. Their role is reduced to provide a theoretical justification. The energy that triggers the major religious and political avalanches in eternity is the magic power of the Word. "
Convinced that his written text has limited scope, Hitler is not content to write Mein Kampf. Consistently supports his theories on personal action, developing and amplifying their themes in thousands of speeches. Riding around in order to propagate these principles, the magnificent party apparatus, with its thousands, its hundreds of thousands, and finally, its millions of adherents, combat formations and its organs of propaganda. The banners with swastikas of militias black and brown have dragged down the book in its upward march to power.
This interesting book has made us fully understand the modern German state, unfortunately, could not reach our hands a complete translation of the text. Several underground editions have been deleted and punished. Others, confusing and biased, are not suitable or possible to understand clearly the mind of a tyrant.