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Mein Kampf, in English My Struggle or My Battle, is a book dictated by Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of
autobiography with an exposition of Hitler’s National Socialist political ideology. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was
published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926.
Popularity and history during Hitler’s lifetime
Following the failed Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler went into hiding. However, he was arrested on November 11, 1923,
was remanded and, after a 24-day trial, found guilty of high treason and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.
Presiding Judge Neithhardt was convinced that Hitler and the other members of the Kampfbund had acted honourably,
and Hitler was therefore eligible for parole in nine months and also to be given the privilege of Festungshaft
(imprisonment without penal labor). This permitted Hitler a steady flow of visitors and a desk in his cell.
Hitler was allocated Cell No. 9 of the Landsberg Prison fortress. A subsequent trial pertaining to the putsch saw
Hitler’s chauffeur Emil Maurice and close associate Rudolf Hess imprisoned for five years, though they too would be
eligible for release in nine months. During this time in prison, Hitler underwent something of an epiphany with
regard to his use of violence: from now on everything was to be ostensibly legal.
Having chosen this new move, Hitler felt that he needed to make sure that the public knew what he stood for, so
began to dictate a book to Hess and Maurice, part autobiography, part political treatise, but mainly a written
argument with the other members of his party who disputed his claims to be its absolute leader. While imprisoned,
Hitler’s first, often overlooked, work was released. This small 24-page self-written booklet, titled “What Happened
On November 8?” was aimed at clearing up confusion and rumour amidst both the party ranks and presumably some
members of the public.
A poster shows that Hitler originally wanted to call his forthcoming book Viereinhalb Jahre (des Kampfes) gegen
Lüge, Dummheit und Feigheit, or Four And A Half Years (Of Fighting) Against Lies, Stupidity And Cowardice. Max
Amman, head of the Franz Eher Verlag and Hitler’s publisher, is said to have suggested[2] the much shorter “Mein
Kampf,” often translated as “My Struggle” or “My Campaign;” its meaning could also be conveyed as “My Fight.”
Though Hitler had received many visitors earlier on, he soon devoted himself entirely to the writing–or rather the
dictation–of the book. As Hitler continued, he realized that it would have to be a two-volume work, with the first
volume scheduled for release in early 1925. The prison governor of Landsberg noted at the time that “he [Hitler]
hopes the book will run into many editions, thus enabling him to fulfill his financial obligations and to defray the
expenses incurred at the time of his trial.”
Once released from prison on December 20, 1924, Hitler moved back to the picturesque mountainous climes of the
Obersalzberg, to which he had been introduced by his mentor Dietrich Eckart, who had been at Landsberg with Hitler
for a few weeks (imprisoned for eighteen months for his role in the putsch) before his health failed and he was
released. By day, Hitler dictated his second volume of Mein Kampf to Eckart before sleeping, first at a room in the
nearby Hotel Pension Moritz and later a rented cottage just a stone’s throw away from Haus Wachenfeld, over which he
would later construct his Berghof as chancellor of Germany.
On July 15, 1925, Franz Eher Nachfolger, later to become the publishing house of the NSDAP, released Mein Kampf:
Eine Abrechnung, or “A Reckoning,” at a run of a mere 500 copies. Though by no means popular, people were said to
have contacted Eher asking for a larger run, which resulted in the publication of a second edition of the first
volume in mid-1926. The second volume, Die Nationalsozialistische Bewegung, or The National Socialist Movement, was
released in December 1926.