On the side - Mein Kampf, Hitler

As uni heats up for another semester (bleh), I've had to do a few whack of non-penguin related reading. Crap, i know, but some things have to be done.

So I embarked on reading selected chapters of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Cheery stuff. For those of you unfamiliar with Adolf (yeah right) he was leader of the ruling National Socialist German Worker (Nazi) Party, and Chancellor of Germany from 1933. He also oversaw the largest genocide in human history.

Prior to Hitler’s political career, he served a short prison sentence at Landberg prison, Munich, for an attempted putsch (governmental overthrow). In jail, Hitler had a colleague named Rudolph Hess scribe Mein Kampf (meaning ‘My Struggle’ in English), his autobiography. Later, Mein Kampf was to become the Nazi manifesto and one of the most contentious books in history. It basically gives a bit of an overview about AH's racial and political views. It's kinda frightening.

To tell you the truth, I was kinda surprise that this book wasn't full of high level academic dribble. It is written in quite simple language which makes it somewhat easy to read. He does however ramble. Boy, does he ramble. So, if you'd like to get a bit more of an understanding about why history went down the way it did, have a bit of a read of AH. You may have to do it in the privacy of your own home. I got a few weird looks reading it on the sidelines at the baseball.