Mein Kampf: Helped Shape the Nazi Movement
Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of his political ideology of Nazism, and outlines major ideas that later culminated in World War II. Especially evident in the book is the violent anti-Semitism of Hitler and his associates, drawing among other things on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. For example, he claimed that the international language Esperanto was a Jewish plot, and presents arguments toward the old German nationalist idea of Drang nach Osten, the necessity to gain living space eastwards, particularly in Russia. There are two passages that mention the use of poison gas: If at the beginning and during the First World War "twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the people had been held under poison gas, as happened to hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers in the field, the sacrifice
Regarding foreign policy, Hitler declared that a National Socialist foreign policy would consist of several stages. In the first stage, by way of a massive re-armament program, Germany would overthrow the shackles of the Treaty of Versailles and form alliances with the British Empire and Fascist Italy. The second stage would consist of wars against France and her allies in Eastern Europe by combining the forces of Germany, Britain and Italy. The third and last stage would be the destruction of the Judeo-Bolshevik regime in the Soviet Union which would give Germany the necessary Lebenstraum, living space. There is also reference to the superhuman that Friedrich Nietzche discussed in his book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Mein Kampf provided a series of appealing propaganda images that helped shape the Nazi movement and rallied the support of the nation. Therefore, Party membe
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