JUDAIC 386 Lecture Notes - Mein Kampf
Document Summary
Mein kampf is an autobiography written by the infamous german fuhrer, adolf. The name translates to my struggle and depicts adolf hitler as a man who was destined for greatness all of his life. In the excerpts selected, hitler is speaking to anyone who will listen; anyone who has seen germany struggle greatly because of the first. World war and wants it picked up out of the ashes and turned into the greatest country in the world. Within each section of mein kampf, regardless of the main subject, he is targeting the jews, shaming their existence and trying to get the readers to agree with him. An example of this is when hitler writes, the end is not only the end of the freedom of the peoples oppressed by the jew, but also the end of this parasite upon the nations.
