The Mein Kampf Book Report

The Mein Kampf was once Germany’s “bible”, but now society disapproves of this book because of who the author was and the message that the author was sending. Adolf Hitler, Germany’s Fuhrer from 1933 to 1945, is the author of this despised novel. Some people might not know it, but before Hitler fought in World War I he was trying to become a professional painter because his lifelong passion was painting, but he was denied the possibility of getting into the art school in Vienna and that is when he decided to enlist for the War. Consequently, Hitler became this military nut who became increasingly obsessed with every detail of war and he then began to oppose to the way that Germany was being governed. Hitler wrote this novel when he was imprisoned for protesting and going against the German government before he gained power. He spent a period of three years in jail and he spent most of his time writing this novel that would end up being Germany’s guidelines for some twelve years. Adolf’s purpose in this novel is to show the struggles that he has overcome in his lifetime and he wrote down his beliefs and ideals in this book. When this novel was originally written it was perfectly normal to look at a cover with Hitler in it, but today people look at you like if you were crazy, well, at least that has happened to me on numeral occasions. Now that I’m finished reading the Mein Kampf I can say that my view of the Nazis and my view of Adolf Hitler has changed. Throughout the novel one can realize that Hitler’s purpose is to convince people that he has suffered since he stepped on the face of the Earth for the first time. …show more content…
Adolf initiates the novel describing his childhood and how he suffered the abuses of his alcoholic father and the loss of his mother at a crucial stage of his life. He had a great bond with his mother and when the day came that she stopped breathing it he fell apart. His mother was his hero, his model, his rock, his one and only. Some might say that Adolf was a “mama’s boy”, but I think that he was just really close to her and that is why he suffered so much from her passing away. It feels strange to say it, but I can actually relate Hitler because if my mother were to die I wouldn’t know how to pick up the pieces and continue on with my life. Mothers and sons have one of the strongest bonds that exist. Relating to person that caused so much damage and was filled with so much evil is really difficult. I believe that if Hitler’s mom wouldn’t have passed away so early in his life (Hitler was a young adult) the course of humanity might have been completely different. Some people might not know that Hitler had Jewish descent. Even though Adolf had Jewish blood running through his veins he still hated all Jews and everything that had to do with Jews. There was a phrase that Adolf used in the Mein Kampf that really set the tone of his hatred, it said “the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew” (Hitler, 1926). Hitler believed that Jews were the reason why Germany was struggling to flourish again after the WWI and he believed that Jews were biologically inferior to the rest of the people. Hitler believed that Sparta was the perfect society and it seemed that he was trying to follow their footsteps because in Sparta they would separate those who were weak and deformed from those who were strong and healthy. Hitler attempted to separate Jews (physically and mentally inferior) from those who were strong like the Aryans. When Hitler gained power of Germany when he reached the position of Chancellor in 1933 he started demanding that people had to have the Mein Kampf in their personal library or they were going to be considered as “Jew Lovers”. After finishing the Mein Kampf I learned that Hitler’s hatred towards Jews and Gypsies originated because he believed that Germany was a nation for the hard-working