Hitler's Mein Kampf: Prelude to the Holocaust
While in prison for his role in the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, Adolf Hitler composed the first of his two-volume work, Mein Kampf. In it, he revealed his desire to lead Germany to greater heights through a utopian vision of an Aryan nation free of Jews and encompassing greater territory through colonialism. When Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 and then Führer in 1934, his vision evolved into a dystopian nightmare with the onset of WWII and the Shoah/Holocaust.
While in prison for his role in the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, Adolf Hitler composed the first of his two-volume work, Mein Kampf. In it, he revealed his desire to lead Germany to greater heights through a utopian vision of an Aryan nation free of Jews and encompassing greater territory through colonialism. When Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 and then Führer in 1934, his vision evolved into a dystopian nightmare with the onset of WWII and the Shoah/Holocaust.
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