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To: paul61 who wrote (94670)9/17/2012 12:53:37 PM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 217711
 
The Fuehrer Mein Kampf book was written under emotional circumstances. We must bear this in mind when reading it.

Germany has been humiliated and a man who fought in the war.
A century earlier, Napoleon had defeated them and dismembered Germany.

In 1923 the French invaded the Ruhr and flagrant violation of international law and occupied 23 towns in the Rhineland under protest of every British political opinion of the time.
The Germans could not defend themselves as they were disarmed by the Versailles Treaty.

To add insult to injury, the French carried out intensive propaganda for Rhineland to secceed from Germany.

In Bavaria a movement raised to separate Bavaria form the rest of Germany and create a Catholic monarchy under the vassalage of France as Napoleon had done in 1805 with Maximilian.

The Bavarian commander of the Reichswehr was not taken order from Berlin anymore.

Thus the Putsch that Hitler carried out was a defense of the integrity of the country.

He wrote the book in prison and under stress and the book has the imprint of the times Germany and Europe lived through.



To: paul61 who wrote (94670)9/17/2012 1:01:08 PM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217711
 
The Germanic superior race thing was made to take Germans out fo the loser feeling.

Having lost war after war and being humiliated by the Versailles Treaty they were in the floor.

They were being fleeced without food. Seeing the people go hungry forced to pay the reparations upset him a lot. It was basically: We've got nothing left to lose. They decided to fight back.