Mein Kampf Essay

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Mein Kampf as a Blueprint for the Holocaust.

Introduction

The Holocaust has become the worst event in human history but why did it happen? Mein Kampf was written by who many would consider one of the evilest men to walk the earth; a man whose ideas committed one of the worst crimes in all of the man kinds history on this earth. Adolf Hitler with only his voice took the lives of millions of homosexuals, gypsies, blacks, disabled people and most of all Jewish people just for not being a part of what he viewed as the perfect race. Mein Kampf was used as an outline for the Holocaust and used against the already hurting Germany to effectively execute on of the vilest acts in history.

Reason 1

Mein Kampf was written on July 18, 1925, inside Landsberg Prison for charges of treason; Adolf Hitler didn 't exactly write the world known the book. It was co-written by his acquaintance whom he was in prison with named Rudolf Hess. “During their time together in Landsberg, Hess served as Hitler’s personal typist while Hitler dictated some of the work that would become known as the first volume of Mein Kampf, “ ("What …show more content…

Mein Kampf seemed like the only way to to fix everything that has happened to Germany after the first world war. Many young people in Germany at the time believed in the ideas of Mein Kampf. The first edition of Mein Kampf was given to every newly married couple as a gift so they could teach their kids the Nazi ways (Nizkor). It was not only the young but Universities that supported it. “From 1933 to 1939 an extensive indoctrination in the ideas of Mein Kampf was pursued in the schools and universities of Germany,” (Nizkor). European people did not look upon Mein Kampf and its writing as an act of terror; they saw it as a way to save themselves and to fix the way they looked in the world 's eyes after they started World war I and

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