Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler An Autobiography

Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler An Autobiography
When serving his jail sentence, Adolf Hitler began to write Mein Kampf, which translates into "My Struggle" in the German language. The book initially begins with Hitler's background, in which he describes his childhood, early aspirations, and the conflict he felt when he was expected to follow his father's footsteps. He was born in the border between Germany and Austria, growing up in a household in which his mother devoted her time to house hold chores and taking care of children. Meanwhile, Adolf's father was a part of the civil service, later owning his own farm in the country. It was often expected of him to become a part of the civil service when he reached a proper age. However, he had no need or want to follow in his father's footsteps. This often caused internal conflict towards his father. "It was simply inconceivable to him that I might reject what had become the content of his whole life" (8). As a child, Hitler didn't feel the motivation in school because he felt a lack of challenge. In terms of a career, at a young age, he was aspiring to become a painter or artist of some sort. His father didn't seem to accept this idea and often looked down upon him for it. History soon became a favorite subject of Adolf's, in which he learned about German history. He started to see the inconsistency of race, especially with the German-Austria people, and started to have thoughts about how the Germans should be more pure, of the best blood, and have a great sense of nationalism and pride. He then started to learn about the theories of Karl Marx and of the Jewish race, which grew into more of a hatred and perhaps fuel for his future plans. Eventually, both of Hitler's parents died and he was out into the real world.The book continues on to explain how Hitler began to meet with Social Democrats and how he was deeply conflicted with his views of the way others handled politics and his hate for the Jew continued to grow and grow. He began to associate the two together and wanted to make a more pure country out of Germany, excluding the other types of races and focusing on the Aryan race, which is what he believed to be the superior, in which would result later on in the Holocaust. Those of the Aryan race would be protected and saved. As the novel continues, the subjects can be anything from his educational plans, military plans, and ways to be a savior of Germany. He didn't believe in the mixing of races and greatly pushed the purity of the German race. Indeed, the majority of Mein Kampf focuses on his hatred of the Jewish race, in which he refers to them as "parasites" and uses words such as "disgust" when referring to them.