Hitler practiced his speeches and 'gestures'.  He wanted to review his 'bodylanguage and gestures' later, so he had his photographer, Heinrich Hoffman, capture them.

Mein Kampf [My Struggle] is a book by Adolf Hitler, combining elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology of Nazism. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925, with volume 2 in 1926.

Several different translations of this work into English exist and where there are significant questions of interpretation they can be presented for comparison. Eventually all quotations in this section should cite volume and chapter as well as the translation used, where known. The 1939 James Murphy translation is available at Project Gutenberg Australia.^[1] There is a 1943 translation by Ralph Manheim which is not available online.^[2]

Contents

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• 1 Volumes
  • 1.1 Volume I
    • 1.1.1 Chapter 1 - In the Home of My Parents
    • 1.1.2 Chapter 2 - Years of Study and Suffering in Vienna
    • 1.1.3 Chapter 3 - Political Reflections Arising Out of My Sojourn in Vienna
    • 1.1.4 Chapter 4 - Personality and the Conception of the Folkish State
    • 1.1.5 Chapter 5 - The World War
    • 1.1.6 Chapter 6 - War Propaganda
    • 1.1.7 Chapter 7 - The Revolution
    • 1.1.8 Chapter 8 - The Beginning of My Political Activities
    • 1.1.9 Chapter 10 - Why the Second Reich Collapsed
    • 1.1.10 Chapter 11 - Race and People
    • 1.1.11 Chapter 12 - The First Stage in the Development of the German National Socialist Labour Party
  • 1.2 Volume II
    • 1.2.1 Chapter 1 - Weltanschauung and Party
    • 1.2.2 Chapter 2 - The State
    • 1.2.3 Chapter 5 - Propaganda and Organization
    • 1.2.4 Chapter 10 - The Mask of Federalism
    • 1.2.5 Chapter 13 - The German Post-War Policy of Alliances
  • 1.3 not yet placed by chapter
• 2 References
• 3 External links

Volumes[edit]

Volume I[edit]

Chapter 1 - In the Home of My Parents[edit]

• [...] I was placed in a very favourable position to be emotionally impressed again and again by the magnificent splendour of ecclesiastical ceremonial. What could be more natural for me than to look upon the Abbot as representing the highest human ideal worth striving for, just as the position of the humble village priest had appeared to my father in his own boyhood days?^[1]
  • I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.