Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf

Hitler, Adolf

| 2003

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In 1958, while directing the microfilming of a trove of archives that the US forces had taken from the Nazis at the end of WWII, a young American scholar named Gerhard Weinberg found the manuscript of a second book that Hitler had written but never published. In a memoir, one of Hitler's secretaries had mentioned a'secret' book about Nazi foreign policy - Weinberg's special subject. Then, when Hitler's Table Talk was published by Hugh Trevor Roper in 1953, there was another reference to this 'unpublished work' by Hitler. Leafing through the contents of a green box-file, Weinberg found a folder labelled,'Draft of Mein Kampf'. In fact, it was a second book. The draft was yellowing but otherwise in good condition. The gaps between commas indicated that the book had been dictated straight onto a typewriter - a method consistent with Hitler's usual practice. The book never appeared because Hitler's...

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Erland Andersson

2012-03-21

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Om man orkar med mellanpartierna av Hitlers orerande om Österikes oduglighet, så finns här en del intressant tankegods för att förstå 2:a världskriget.
Men det här är det oredigerade utkastet till en bok som aldrig publicerades under Hitlers livstid.