y wrote in the usual sense. He dictated it to Rudolph Hess while pacing his prison cell in 1923-24 and then later at an inn in Berchtesgaden.In his book, Hitler divides humans into categories based on physical appearance, establishing higher and lower orders, or types of humans. At the top was the Germanic man with his fair skin, blond hair, and blue eyes. Hitler refers to this type of person as an Aryan. He asserts that the Aryan is the supreme form of human, or master race. In Hitlers mind, since there was a supreme form of human, then there must be others less supreme, or racially inferior. Hitler assigns this position to Jews, the Slavic peoples, most notably Czechs, Poles, and Russians. Hitler also uses the book to explain how the Jews were keeping the master race from assuming its rightful position as rulers of the world by tainting its racial and cultural purity. He would also like you to believe that Jewish people had invented certain forms of governments in which the Aryan comes to believe in equality and fails to recognize his own racial superiority. In this book he refers to Jews as parasites, liars, dirty, crafty, sly, wily, eternal bloodsuckers, and the mortal enemy of Aryan humanity. Mein Kampf also provides an explanation for the military conquests later attempted by Hitler and the Germans. He states, among other things, that Aryans are the master race and are entitled by that fact to acquire more land for themselves. This Lebensraum, or living space, will be acquired by force and include the lands to the east of Germany, namely Russia. That land would be used to cultivate food and to provide room for the expanding Aryan population at the expense of the Slavic peoples, who were to be removed, eliminated, or enslaved. When Mein Kampf was released in 1925 it sold poorly. However, after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, millions of copies were sold. It was considered proper to own a copy and to give one to newly...
