Mein Kampf: History's Most Evil Book

[@Fortheloveofcrafts75]

“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. Yet a lot of people seem to think History is boring. That’s really too bad

[@gregbors8364]

History is definitely not boring. History *class* is boring

[@peterpain6625]

@@gregbors8364 Depends on the teacher really. I had a couple of pretty good ones. Made even the dry parts interesting by mixing in stories of "normal, relatable people".

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

Yeah so if you don't want to repeat it then we'd better actually get rid of the j e w s this time!

[@logangillespie7675]

@@gregbors8364 Truest thing ever said, I love learning history but in classes its somehow made boring.

[@rebeccaritchie3315]

Also, the people who just want to cover it up and not talk about it because they’re either embarrassed or afraid of offending either side. It happened. We need to be able to discuss it.

[@damianschultz6445]

You know what I actually like about this channel, it's an actual person talking to us and not an AI voice over

[@keryeeastin4022]

Simon is a synth. 😅😂❤

[@cookiemonster7439]

will be very rare soon i suppose

[@Tomas-to9kz]

Sorry... Satan's Bible is the most evil book Mein Kampf is about the liberation of people from evil.

[@GribGFX]

This guy is insane. He’s been all gas no brakes for years across multiple channels.

[@TacoTuesday4]

@@GribGFXhe’s just the on screen talent. Smart to pair with channels that love the research but don’t want to be on screen.

[@scooby45247]

those who dont study history are doomed to repeat it.. those who do study history are doomed to watch others repeat it..

[@naheleshiriki5496]

No kidding people legit thought I was a psychic for being able to predict things. It's just common sense.

[@scooby45247]

@@naheleshiriki5496 i usually tell people that they can know too if they read more non-fiction books and less headlines..

[@LarryWater]

We’re only apes.

[@scooby45247]

@@LarryWater we are not "only" apes.. we are GREAT apes, that happen to also suck ass..

[@Ludovicus-Wyndham]

Don’t get your historical sources from a KZbin channel’s confused synopsis, please.

[@chrispayne3427]

If the book is banned. The words can be forgotten. And if the words can be forgotten. The deeds can be repeated.

[@FortniteBlaster2]

Lol you clearly haven’t read the book, it’s not even bad.

[@sanders7789]

Mein Kampf was written by a psychotic madman. Why shouldn’t it be banned?

[@mongoose890]

@@FortniteBlaster2you can literally see the quotes calling Jews lesser humans on the screen

[@maros1337]

99% of people here havent read the book, the book reflects all the problems even after 100 years, people are just too stupid to understand it

[@Nognamogo]

​​@@FortniteBlaster2If you think there's nothing wrong with the ideas in that book, then there's nothing wrong with doing what the book suggests be done to the groups hitler hated, to you instead.

[@juliaelrod2154]

I have a copy. The lady at the thrift store where I got it was astounded anyone would buy it. I told her "you can't argue against a thing if you don't know about it."

[@craigdavidson5613]

I’m still surprised one of my hometown’s high school libraries had a copy of this book on their shelves. It had the swastika on it and everything. I’m even more surprised it ended up in my possession. I’d never read it, but still, different times.

[@solaceinmusic]

I actually read it in high school. It was required reading for my AP History class. But that wouldn't happen now. I graduated high school in California in 1997.

[@sticksnstonespatriot1728]

It's a great read. Nothing controversial really. Just a man who was proud of his country and tired of the central banking systems parasitic relationship with his nation. I think EVERYONE can empathize with this simple sentiment

[@muhammaddarrenputra6389]

​@@sticksnstonespatriot1728i mean, he had chapters about anti-slavs and anti-jews opinions on his book, even at some point he started to blame jews for everything

[@mr.pavone9719]

​@@sticksnstonespatriot1728even a broken clock is right twice a day. Too bad Hitler's broken clock was missing both hands.

[@Bubbaist]

I remember an interesting segment in a documentary I saw on Mein Kampf. An elderly man remembered being six years old and hearing his father talking to his friends at the dinner table. He snuck into the room to see what the grown-ups were talking about, and he was surprised to see his father holding up a copy of Mein Kampf. His friends were saying, “Hitler isn’t going to start a war. He’d be crazy to even try!” His father pointed to his copy of Mein Kampf and said, “Read this book! It’s right here, in his own words!” That’s the best argument against censorship I’ve ever heard.

[@mrjones2721]

It’s the same with Putin and Trump. “He wouldn’t do X! He’d be crazy to try!” “But he said right here that he’d do it.” “He wasn’t being literal.” Yes, he was. He was.

[@wedgie502]

@@mrjones2721 when did Trump ever say that he'd start a war? I'd heard him say that he'd finish but never heard him say that he'd start. as far as Putin, we all know how thats going.

[@archstanton6102]

He did say he would encourage other nations to attack countries who had not paid their NATO contributions. ​@@wedgie502

[@jacobsirois7585]

​@@wedgie502T😮umps a fascist dictator wannabe like Putin, Hitler and especially Mousseline. triumph practically copies his demeanor and platitudes. . Trump is a 2 bit used car salesman, conman!

[@HeWhoShams]

Absolutely brainwashed ​@@mrjones2721

[@lorihattendorf8790]

When I spent a semester studying in Southern France, I took a class on Vichy France. The professor told us a story about how he needed a copy of Mein Kampf for his research. Several local bookstores wouldn't sell it to him. When he finally found one willingbto order him a copy, they insisted he take it in a plain bag so that if he lost it on a bus or subway no one would know it came from their store.

[@frankesposito2182]

Did you dri k the Vichy water 💧?

[@powertothesheeple5422]

And yet ou can order it off Amazon today 🤣

[@changer_of_ways_999]

Great example of the dangers of censorship. You can't avoid a venomous snake if you don't know how to identify one.

[@leeccilee7605]

​@@powertothesheeple5422 or even easier than that, I can go to my grandfathers drawer and just take it

[@replynotificationsdisabled]

@@leeccilee7605 just ask him, he'd probably know you're less of a failure if you read it.

[@TwilightxKnight13]

My grandfather was a WWII veteran and staunch US patriot. Among his library he owned a copy of Mein Kampf and Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. He insisted that all his grandchildren read them so we could see how easy it was to use intellectualism to convince people to be wholly evil and so we could identify public "hate" speech that was shrouded in ideology that sounded good.

[@charlessedlacek5754]

Hate speech? Who decides what hate speech is, comrade? We do have a first amendment.

[@anandmorris]

I'd imagine calling for the extermination of one or more races simply for being, is hate speech.

[@gaston4269]

If your grandfather was a WW2 veteran he was most likely born between 1890-1915, and was 100% a raging racist and anti semite and most likely fully supported the nazis and hitler.

[@tHoM0r]

A survey of British ww2 veterans show that the majority regret fighting against Germany because of what has become of the UK since. Mass immigration.

[@jessicarichter6436]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@charlessedlacek5754First amendment don’t work outside of US. Lots of countries have hate speech laws.

[@fritzguldenpfennig2486]

It's crazy how in a sense though morally we'd love Mein Kampf to be banned, it is critical that the book not be banned. Like that line in LOTR, "Some things that shouldn't be forgotten, were lost."

[@littlegiantj8761]

Sunlight is the best bleach

[@intrepidpursuit]

100% this. If discussion of a topic is not allowed in the public sphere then it is only talked about behind closed doors with no one to oppose the position. That is a huge reason for the extremism we are seeing on a variety of topics in the US.

[@derektaylor2941]

I was told in Waterstone book shop (UK) that "...we should never be like the nazis and should burn this book..." I replied to this silly girl- a part time worker who was, unbelievably, studying modern history at university- that the nazis would have been proud of her plan to burn books she didn't like. Oh the irony.

[@brosoul9323]

yeah lets keep right wing propaganda around so that it can brainwash other people. brilliant

[@quinton01]

What's "moral" about Mein Kampf being banned?

[@greeneyesms]

He wrote a book exactly laying out how he wants things to do. Then the Allies expressed shock and disbelief when he began to do exactly what he said he'd do.

[@bjornodin]

Honestly, what are the odds that a politician will put any effort into keeping his campaign promises? 😅

[@lawrencefrost9063]

just like when jihadis say they truly believe in paradise and martyrdom, believe them

[@LisaAnn777]

​@@lawrencefrost9063and their ideas of paradise is kill/converting all non Muslims on Earth. So don't be surprised when they start to do just that.

[@shakiMiki]

Not really. They thought Communism was worse.

[@snoox27]

​@shakiMiki one could suggest it is, I mean communism is still an issue unlike Nazism 🤷‍♀️

[@cristinesplinis5815]

I considered history to be boring when I was a kid and thought all that stuff was soooo far in the past. Now, as an adult, I realize that, although some of it is, history is happening all around us, every day. I started watching Simon’s and other’s videos about historical figures and events in the last few years and now I understand more than I ever learned in school. Thank you, Simon and writers!

[@pewpewbbqs]

Check out ZoomerHistory for more in depth looks on WWII and Hitler

[@alejandronopasanada5302]

I’m of the thinking that is on purpose. There are several things, some even identity based, that keep you tied up until you’re too old to shape a life of resistance and have a mortgage and kids.

[@JanreArchersheisbeautifu-wt6ro]

History was boring as kids in school because teachers don't know how to teach it all they want. U to learn are dates

[@angelojohnnys7246]

My grandmother was a Gypsy a Roman Gypsy, and we used to watch documentary. She would say take him off and start crying. I couldn’t imagine my grandmother being the nicest person in the world, hating someone so much and then I found out who this man was I can only imagine my grandmother‘s terror.

[@FredCarpenter-b3t]

"Do not fear me, Gypsy. All I want from you is your tears. Please give them to me, or I will take them." - Borat

[@pointly]

"The enemy has printed their plans on paper for all to see. Read it, learn it, understand it. For your enemy will do the same to you."

[@nicknickerson2124]

Karl Marx?

[@pyromania1018]

Ironically, Hitler did no such thing because he was lazy. He occasionally had others read stuff for him, but he always insisted they give him a cliff notes version tailored to his beliefs because he was a narcissist with an incredibly fragile ego, and his bootlickers always indulged it out of self-preservation.

[@derschafer1012]

Same can be said for the Kalergi Plan in “Practical Idealism” and Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.

[@hunkyhaggis2161]

​@@derschafer1012Wow! I clicked on "reply" to make the very same comment! Touché!

[@enkicat]

Clear not read it then 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@tuongpham7609]

When grandpa gets you mein kampf for Christmas instead of Minecraft.

[@Fernando5455Jr]

Oh god I remember that 😅

[@Grndl42]

That meme was hilarious!

[@DKM.23]

So funny 🤣

[@CrustyMcButternuts]

What did Adolf Hitler say when he dropped his bowl of macaroni & cheese? "MeinKraft!"

[@vjbd2757]

"It's Minecraft not Mein Kampf!"

[@joeseeking3572]

I read this years ago - I want to say college where we were required to read original source material. Turgid. But an absolute blueprint for what would follow. Which leads me to wonder - how could anyone have pretended 'this isn't so bad'. We make far too many excuses for all sorts of outlandish and absolutist political statements today and then act so surprised when the results align with the professed ideology.

[@battlesheep2552]

Because of how rare it is for a politician to actually do what they say they are going to do?

[@l4zrh4wk]

@@battlesheep2552Does that justify the murder of millions? Come on.

[@captainspaulding5963]

Because this all happened in a time FAR before information was anywhere near immediately accessible. And back then, nobody in their right mind would ever think that the little stump of a man that wrote it could ever fulfill anything in it. People spend FAR too much time painting past events with the brush that comes from years of studying history. We know NOW that something like this should have been monitored. And we know that BECAUSE of what happened then.

[@halcyonzenith4411]

@@captainspaulding5963 If only Google AI could have rooted out this man, and others like him, and deleted them before they ever had the chance to do anything. The holocaust would not have happened and Trump never would have been president.

[@The3nd187]

​@@l4zrh4wkmillions of people in the middle east murdered by the United States?

[@barristanselmy2758]

And one day for absolutely no reason at all. The victors will tell you stories. But they never tell you why.

[@runcycleskixc]

Those who repeat history say "but now it's different".

[@Culturalwarlord]

Funny how the victim becomes the perpetrator.

[@sgt.zaitsev287]

​@@CulturalwarlordThere's a difference between Judaism and the genocidal apartheid state of Israel

[@SarcasticPossum]

Yeah sure it is.

[@lukeo.2653]

So do people who don't repeat history lol

[@runcycleskixc]

​@@captainahab4325 As long they believe the dictator is on "their side" it must be OK, I guess. Forgetting that it can backfire. In Stalin times, the executioners often became the executed later on.

[@maxandmols9526]

I was working in a house in oxford in the uk recently and a guy was sat on the sofa reading mien kampf, that was a conversation starter.

[@mattivirta]

good book has, same alfred speer book has very interesting and good read.

[@alexandervladimirovich576]

Great job, writer of this episode! 6 Years ago a big history and philosophy publishing house in The Netherlands recieved backlash for publishing a new translation of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of The West, as this book is deemed "undemocratic". I remember walking past a bookshop where the publishing house paid for advertisement posters to be put outside the venue. They read: "Why would you only read books that you agree with?" As a scholar in history and philosophy of culture I can attest that it is of vital importance that we read books that contain things we don't agree with. That is why my book shelve contains several works of an alt-right academic philosopher whose views are diametrically opposed to mine. It's like that saying: keep your friends near, but your enemies nearer. One has to properly understand their opponent in order to be able to defeat them or, as in this case, so that history will not repeat itself.

[@jennyanydots2389]

People from the "neither-lands" don't need to be interjecting on full human business. Keep a lid on it Alex, don't wanna have to say it again brugh.

[@TerpsNtacos]

Same! I own Communist Manifesto and Rules For Radicals

[@owlcowl]

​@@TerpsNtacosI hope u don't assume that the Manifesto, a compellingly written but doctrinaire polemical tract intended as propaganda in revolutionary France, represents the best political thought of Marx & Engels, much less of 19C socialism generally.

[@2MannzumHochbeamen]

@@owlcowl It reveals their true agenda. The Capital is theory, the manifesto is practics.

[@GenghisVern]

7:40 sounds like a quote from the Dakota governor about the dog incident

[@foo219]

I forget who said it, but I read a wonderful quote. "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." You don't get the exact same events but they definitely seem very similar.

[@rossadams9203]

Mark Twain, my favorite quote from him

[@nonono9194]

Yes, the 30s appear to be repeating. Thankfully

[@MichaelNelsonxxx]

Maek Twain

[@michaelrandle8316]

​@rossadams9203 Mine, which was attributed to him was: "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics."

[@ricksmith2609]

Why do they always say the number? Its not like that with anything else. It's obvious actually.

[@letsengrave155]

I remember being in a tattoo studio and noticing a copy of mien kampf on the bookshelf. I asked my artist(a Hispanic male) why he had that book....he said to me " because I respect history and want to learn from it" I borrowed it and read it. Now I urge every person to do the same. Knowing humanity's past enemies from the inside out will save us from future evils.

[@SebastianA.W.]

Sure, like, demonize the ones doing somerhing against the anti human agenda? The media was no different 100 years ago than today: mouthpieces of special interests.

[@leaongat7549]

Out of curiosity, did it say anything about how certain modern day people control every aspect of our lives and secretly control our government taxes going to certain land giving them all the benefits we don’t have ourselves ?

[@UncleFiggy]

​@@leaongat7549 Get help

[@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts]

@@leaongat7549 No. He just blames the Jews for anything and everything he hated. Capitalism? It's the Jews. Communism? It's the Jews. Modern art that he didn't like? The Jews. That's what Mein Kampf is: a list of grievances from a jibbering loser.

[@kneegrow3906]

Smart man.

[@JamVar]

Hitler: "We need a single ruler under which the ranks shall fall in line and his every whim and order obeyed without question!" "Oh ok, cool. So...who should that be?" Hitler: "AHHH, WELL, I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED! I HAPPEN TO KNOW A GUY..."

[@greeneyesms]

Actually, he initially did not view himself this way. Only after seeing others fail did he change his goal.

[@timothyhouse1622]

@@greeneyesms LMAO...yeah, no. He knew EXACTLY who he wanted ruling when he was writing Meinkampf.

[@greeneyesms]

@@timothyhouse1622 Not according to the shelf of history books in my den. His written command of German was not good, to the point where it was heavily edited by one of his mentors. He was awkward in social settings. He was a failure at everything he did until WWI. It wasn’t until German Workers Party was failing that he decided he could provide leadership.

[@frankesposito2182]

Actually they wanted him...

[@greeneyesms]

@@frankesposito2182 His military superior assigned him to look into the GWP. At first he was horrified at the “club” atmosphere of the GWP. I think it was Anton Drexler who was in charge at that time and found Hitler to be a good agitator. Eventually, he took over after major infighting.

[@thamwisai1]

“We defeated the wrong enemy” Gen. Patton

[@akuafina9-631]

Someone had to say it.

[@Jaa__17]

Hahahahah why? Cause y’all don’t like migrants as much as the Nazi party did. Weird comment.

[@86cutty442]

​@@foxxy-3748lol what r u fucking talking about? patton died (of mysterious circumstances mind you) in 1945, the Korean war didnt start until 1950. youre thinking of Eisenhower 😂

[@nicolestimothy9921]

@@thamwisai1 who's "WE" bub?

[@TaylorMade223]

Every. Single. Time.

[@christophermerlot3366]

Decades ago when I was in undergrad, I had to read Mein Kampf for a course. I had the bright orange copy with the title and author in 30+ font in gothic lettering on the cover. So I was on the subway and then the bus reading. In those days I looked a bit like Charlie Manson with a long black leather fall coat. Not only was I reading a very conspicuous copy of Hitler's book, I was highlighting it. As I thought of it as just another textbook, I couldn't figure out why my fellow passengers were looking at me funny. And I went to York University in Toronto. Those of you who know will understand how bad those optics were.

[@lawrencefrost9063]

why not cover it up in public, u slow?

[@bradsanders407]

"OH such terrible optics, reading a book about what we did to the natives of the place where I'm reading the book" people and their holier-than-thou attitudes are sickening. "It's OK for us to do it but not someone on the other side of the planet" foh

[@amandarobb2856]

I live about an hour and a half north east of Toronto. The TTC in general is worth its own rant. I get ya!

[@christophermerlot3366]

You too mate! @@amandarobb2856

[@Shadders2010]

Why would a student let himself wear a longcoat and allow himself to get so shaggy and unkempt?

[@Elidrawsthings]

My dad had a german copy of mienkampf that was given to him by a former member of the hitler youth. A man whose daughter ended up converting to Judaism and whose friend (my dad) married a jewish woman (my mom). My dad kept it around as a reminder, as a kid he looked at me and quoted the book from german (which he spoke fluently) "evil will tell you what they intend to do, never silence evil from speaking because you'll never be prepared"

[@mrheroprimes]

when mienkampf was released outside of Germany hitler had all of his plans for genocide/ His plans for warwere removed from the book.

[@Wesley-cb6ty]

Very well said. Suppression of evil will just cause it to emerge in unexpected places. Spot on

[@NotAGoodUsername360]

"You'll own nothing and be happy"

[@NotAGoodUsername360]

"You'll own nothing and be happy"

[@lidiaspazzard]

So, where can we find the evidence of his plans for genocide? Where are the existing copies that contain it?@@mrheroprimes

[@davidhodgkins193]

Too many people hide away and say it won't happen again. However, history tells us that as humans, we never learn.

[@OutcastFPS]

It's happening right now, substitute the word "jews" with "migrants" give it some more time.

[@walkingsleeper9713]

​@@OutcastFPS the devils children were helping negroes into Europe for a long time.

[@max.aura10k]

@@OutcastFPSno now Israel is doing it to Palestinians.

[@geoffwilliams4478]

​@@OutcastFPS I would argue that it's happening in Israel and it's becoming inherently dangerous here in America.

[@shubhnamdeo2865]

@@max.aura10k It's taking shape everywhere in different forms. Anti-immigrant sentiment in West (lol these guys supported the destruction and destabilization and colonial rule of these countries and now act shocked when they come to them, taking money), anti-Palestinian sentiment in Israel, anti-Islamic sentiment worldwide, anti-non-Islamic sentiments in Islamic countries, and anti-westernism in Russia and China.

[@1970sau]

I read the book and just about every bad thing that's happening these days he predicted

[@Ruxl21]

People are terrible at thinking long term.

[@federalreservewolflegend3523]

That's why the modern z's want it banned.

[@johnnycampbell7691]

Yup

[@hugsandthanks1460]

No Ape brain, Hitler was a sub human. So, he can't predict anything real about humans.

[@Meatriderphobic]

@@federalreservewolflegend3523brainwashed boomers want it banned as they’re probably the stupidest generation, gen z like me are reading it and realising that we’ve been lied too.

[@Anubiszz512zz]

Maybe this is a first of a series that studies books?Other books that should be examined like the communist manifesto, what is to be done, the little red book, the Bible, the Koran, Torah, Wealth of Nations, ect...

[@Caranig]

That would be awesome. I'd watch that. Heck, I'd even be open to writing one if the idea were accepted for the channel!

[@fredblonder7850]

I’ve read the Communist Manifesto. It comes across as a bit naive, but does not include any hateful rants. It basically claims that once capitalism is destroyed, the goodness of human nature will take over and make everything unicorns and rainbows. The overbearing oppression in Communist governments does not come from this book.

[@maxdanielj]

With how often people (incorrectly) reference 1984, I think that should definitely be added to that list

[@Caranig]

@@maxdanielj Definitely!

[@tagus100]

He unfortunately couldn’t do the Qur’an as he would get murdered.

[@siyabongakhumalo4492]

I know its necessary to summarize his main points and beliefs, but one thing that was more interesting for me is how he tells his journey from being normal to adopting these beilefs and the beliefs altimately dominating him whilst before he considered them but thought they were bad...That for me is the interesting part, from thinking the ideas are terrible to going to war for them

[@Bluemann023]

you would do the same if you realized the jew truth

[@mweskamppp]

That book is full of lies and half true things. The half true things are worse. There is a new edition with about 3500 footnotes that explain the context of what is written there, arguments in the light of the time and of 19th century, what is a lie and what is partly true only.

[@timotmon]

Wait, did he really once believe they were terrible idea's before adopting them? I'm not sure I've ever seen that before.

[@waynesteffen3262]

Don’t know why this was never mentioned, but the quote about not forgetting history was said by George Santayana, the Spanish-American philosopher and writer.

[@hildahilpert5018]

I knew he was the source of the quote.And he was right. I never read Mein Kampf. My dad might have read the book, because he said the same things about it you have.When WW 2 came ,he had a deferment because he was working at Briggs and Stratton in Milwaukee but told grandpa he was going in anyways Said he wanted to kick Hitler,s butt.He had relatives in Germany some who were for Hitler and others against him, .Never brought anything Nazi home as a souvenir after the war unlike some guys might have Retired in 1975 after 33 years in the military.

[@nesciusplayground]

Impossible to say who said it first. Most intelligent people know it is true so it was said before for sure.

[@_XR40_]

Not attributed because people have been saying it for centuries. Exact phraseology may vary a little, but the concept is as old as history itself....

[@tribblebooth1224]

A friend of mine recently went to his local library, and asked if they had a copy of "Mein Kampf". The librarian gestured to a an aisle, and replied, "You should find a copy there, under fiction".

[@notchpoodles5864]

Hold on, what the hell?

[@tamerofhorses2200]

This makes no sense.

[@2003andre100]

I swear this guy always has a new channel I discover

[@notchpoodles5864]

So true

[@jimmysundberg2376]

I read this book due to interest in psychology. The problem with average Germans during inter-war is that they had a bitter defeated mindset. So when a maniac guy that promise glory and destruction for the nation came around, most people only focused on the glory part and not the latter.

[@shakiMiki]

Conveniently overlooking the powerful groups & interests that promoted, financed & benefitted from Nazism.

[@juliankohler5086]

​@captainblacktooth371 I was about to make a comment on how insane it is that so many people believed utter nonsense. You cited Trump and brought me back to the present. QAnon, sovereign citizens, anti vaxxers, flat-earthers... Thank God there's no creature with Hitler's cunning to see all that and unify them all again, this time with social media.

[@LarryWater]

They shouldn’t have raped Belgium.

[@andyf4292]

its exactly the Make Germany Great Again!! if only he had had a hat with the logo on it,,,, MGGA.. only 1 letter different

[@kf3914]

It’s not just that they were defeated. The British blockaded Germany throughout most of the war and after the armistice. Germany was starving for years. It was so bad that in the 1920s and 1930s, you could tell which kids were born during the war years because they were so small and under developed. Germany also had to rebuild their nation. The entire governmental system was changed: they went from having a Kaiser to having democratic elections, no one knew what type of party to establish, radical ideas were coming from every side (right and left). Much of their colonies were dissolved and given to the allies. And just to make this worse, the conditions imposed at Versailles almost ensured that animosity, conspiratorial thinking, and scapegoating would continue. Germany did not start ww1 just like Russia didn’t start it, England didn’t start it, France didn’t start it. This was a conflict between austro-Hungary and Serbia, and the diplomatic and international conditions of the time (alliance system, the fact that people weren’t avoiding war) all allowed for this conflict to happen, but Germany gets blamed. Oh, and the 1919 influenza pandemic which killed just as many as the war itself. The nazi party genuinely seemed like a viable option because they sold the idea that they would create a “greater community” of sorts that took care of each other-every family gets a car and access to vacation days at fancy resorts for cheap and every married couple gets a cheque for being married (and also mein kampf, a wedding gift from the father himself), and paid time off and they fixed the economy, industrialized Germany, upped agriculture. And also they were sticking up for Germany when it appeared to a lot of Germans like they were being bullied and controlled by the allies. Now tell me, given the state of our world right now and what happened with covid and the wars in the east, are we acting any different? All I’m saying is the average German, at least at first, becomes less confusing when you put everything into context on how they could appeal to the nazi party.

[@alexanderwesthuis3486]

there is a Dutch writer whom has written a book on the topic of how nazi's gained so much momentum and popularity. the book is called "het verboden boek" ( the forbidden book) written by Ewoud Kieft. its a great read for those whom would like to read an (good) interpetation of mein kampf without reading it yourself, because mein kampf is a very unpleasant book to read.. the book has tons of footnotes that bring some insight, nuance and noted resources.

[@derektaylor2941]

Adding a comment to bookmark this for later.

[@hatetheantichrist]

How is Mein Kampf unpleasant to read? Please quote me one thing that should prevent someone from reading it.

[@SicSeb]

I have a copy of Mein Kampf, I also own a copy of the quran. I know which book contains more violent and anti jewish retoric and it's not the former. Yet the latter is widely available and beyond criticism it seems.

[@dirtysiouxsnooks33]

Is this book in English too? I just searched for it and could only find it in Dutch. I’d love to read it

[@alexanderwesthuis3486]

@@dirtysiouxsnooks33 not that i'm aware of, you might be lucky to find an online translated version but i don't think you'll find a print version in english

[@TheEgg185]

13:06 "Like a professor who sets his own book as essential reading..." 😂

[@jh2309]

Excellent Job. Yes Mein Kempf is a confusing book if you just read it as regular book but if you read looking through the lenses of looking backwards, it can make you wonder why a country so cultured as Germany could have fallen for him as he laid out everything he planned to do in it.

[@Carewolf]

Because nobody actually read it. His fans were the illiterate, and it was like a bible to them. A bible that like US Evangelical they have never actually read.

[@kozzy18]

There are 3 things cited but never read in America, the Bible, Constitution and Mein Kampf.

[@greeneyesms]

@@Carewolf Actually, no, he was supported by the upper classes as well, who held fancy parties for him. Leading industrialists backed him as well, due to his hatred of communism. Bayer (the enormous chemical co.), the grandsons of Richard Wagner, etc.)

[@Carewolf]

@@greeneyesms That was after he had swayed 50+% of the underclass, and swore off socialism. They supported him as counter to communism and thought they could control him, I doubt they ever bothered reading his book either, or they would have known his plans.

[@greeneyesms]

@@Carewolf agreed

[@Jameywells777]

I remember in 6th grade I did a book report on this and got suspended for it .

[@Gingerphile00]

good

[@rathersane]

Probably should have been cause for a discussion rather than a suspension-Kids should always be encouraged to slake their curiosity (short of harming self or others), not be punished for it.

[@froggystyle642]

@JG-MV probably the truth. You know, that way that children see it

[@kylerocco7467]

​@@froggystyle642I need more context on why you got suspended of course it's uncomfortable but it needs to be discussed in its historical context. That being said 6th I think 6rh grade was when my school had us reading the diary of Ann Frank and Mauz. We really didn't get into the political part of it more than the fact it happened and was bad. Honestly that's why I think a trip to the Holocaust museum should be required for American students

[@deadponic117]

​@@kylerocco7467I think visiting the Auschwitz ruins is required for everyone who takes up world war 2 history

[@studiotwilldee]

"Those who fail to learn from history will be fine, since Simon will make 50 videos a day on 10 channels to teach it to you."

[@odinfromcentr2]

Having someone available and willing and able to teach it and teach it _well_ still isn't enough if those who most urgently need to learn would rather cram their fingers in their ears and scream LA LA LA LA LA.

[@668771]

Evil Book?!!.......... books aren't evil, they are knowledge. Should understand that. This book is important.

[@SmilingIbis]

It's not like Germany at the time needed a lot of convincing. These ideas of nationalism and antisemitism were widespread after The Great War: "Jews and Social Democrats stabbed us in the back" and so on. The public was primed up with tons of grievances and resentments against just about everyone. This book was merely the match custom made for this particular powder keg.

[@bvalt1]

2000 years of antisemitism by the Christian and Muslim faiths didn't help either!!

[@LazarOrthodox04]

Anti semitism wasn't a thing anywhere

[@bigdummy6286]

@@LazarOrthodox04such a simple bait but it made me reply. very nice.

[@acefreak95]

​@@LazarOrthodox04Ooo hoho brother let me tell you to look up where it all began the rhineland massacres of 1096

[@nicolestimothy9921]

That book is the seed of all hatred. Now look what happens now. Hate has gone wildfire. He knew his plan works because he what the world on fire with hatered he poured out.

[@TheIndignation]

It really is frightening (and disappointing) how prolific Hitler's ideas remain today.

[@mafyboy0420]

"So what's your Favorite book Armin?" Armin: Mein Kampf.

[@dantdmfangamingrich9802]

A Slap on Titan reference

[@MrReivezIsntOP]

Europa the last battle

[@JasonAdank]

based

[@Bluesit32]

Simon: "When one thinks of an evil book, one naturally springs to mind before all others..." Me: "The Necronomicon." Simon: "...Mein Kampf." Me: "...but legends say it was written by the Dark Ones. Written in human blood and bound in human skin..."

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

I read it and to me his words show a man who was driven mad by a combination of ptsd from WWI, an insatiable drive to prove to himself and to his father that he wasn’t incompetent, romantic success largely lacking, struggling to make a living as a laborer, and a strong belief that the culture he grew up in and loved was dying.

[@hjvdd]

Yup, same for me

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

@@hjvdd Indeed. One strong quality he had was his unstoppable drive. I’ve often wondered how he could’ve used that to benefit humanity if only had a few things in his life been just a little different.

[@KUSHANDRA]

I hate to say it, but he was right about the last part. People actively are abandoning traditions, values and cultures in the name of fame and money. We have been materialised and dehumanized.

[@mweskamppp]

@@TheNightWatcher1385 He was socially awkward. His family was not average. Some strange things and possible incest. He did not really fit in to society and was kind of a loser. Until he discovered his talent to speek to crowds.

[@alanbrown342]

When I was a junior in High School, I borrowed a copy of Mein Kampf from the school library. I was purely motivated out of curiosity; I didn't have a fascist mindset. As I recall, I mostly found it a bit tedious; I didn't come close to finishing. People looked at me a bit funny as I carried it around; my creative writing teacher - who was Jewish - was a bit disturbed, but he came up to me and said, "you read that, and see how hateful that book really is!" As I had a knack for writing, he eventually accepted that I was not simply the sort who would read it uncritically.

[@robertolopez9483]

you're lucky no one beat you up or something, there's a lot of people who lost relatives in that war all thanks to Hitler.

[@BartvanderHorst]

Humanity's tendency to forget the horrors of war is matched only by our blindness to the signs of its impending return.

[@federalreservewolflegend3523]

And irony of ironies, this time it's Israelis.

[@danieldavis2292]

"Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. Those who DO study history are doomed to watch others repeat it."

[@republitarian484]

You know the most destructive weapon of mass destruction is the purposeful starvation of a people. Look at what happened in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Now there was a new book just released about "white rural rage". . . you should look at what those two guys had to say.

[@chedelirio6984]

Notice the way that it posits that those who are not among the "naturally superior" and/or will or can not fight their way to the top DESERVE to be dispossessed, oppressed or eliminated -- and that those are the only two alternatives. So (a) blame the victim (b) make it so that the point is to get on top at all costs -- but this implies that the "struggle" will NEVER end since the only way to prevail is to always be fighting your way to the top and always asserting your superiority over some inferior. So whoever was not already on top would be at risk of being next chosen as a target.

[@emperorstevee]

Natural selection

[@frankendragon5442]

National Socialism is Capitalism on steroids.

[@bobbarker1798]

Now we have Project 2025 as the most evil book.

[@FredCarpenter-b3t]

Most people have never heard of MKULTRA, let alone that it has been declassified and wasn't just a conspiracy theory. People don't even realize they're in a continuous state of mass hypnosis.

[@GSAlchemy]

I still cannot believe Americans were this damn dumb.

[@thomasjohnson3841]

are we at 110 yet?

[@Tyrany42]

Something I’ve never understood; how exactly was the “superior race” determined? Did someone just see a blonde white guy with a big chin and say “Yup, that’s the best”?

[@frankphillips7436]

The “superior race” was determined by Darwinian biologists at the time. Hitler didn’t invent this “science”! He merely exploited the vile science of the day. There was a very strong adherence to the notion of human evolution at the time that “demonstrated” a genetic and racial hierarchy. These ideas were highly popular among western academics. It was due to the fact that this hierarchy was already commonly accepted that his ideas were able to get off the ground. No one at the time would have accepted these ideas simply because Hitler said them. The “trust the science” crowd had already paved the way for Hitler.

[@Tyrany42]

@@frankphillips7436 Thanks for the answer!So those “scientists” determined that blonde white guys were the pinnacle of evolution? Sounds a lot like biased pseudoscience to me.

[@LarryWater]

According to many scientists back then, people in industrialized nations had more intelligence than those who live in grass huts.

[@Littlevisser]

Why vile?😢

[@anandmorris]

​@@Littlevisser vile because there is no way ze germans are greater than us Brits. 🤣

[@Fiendformusic]

My favorite book. What a classic read. So much that he predicted is happening all over the world now.

[@MichaelSmith-zx5lw]

What the fuck,

[@xVMouseVx]

Instead of learning from history some want us to be ignorant of history to prevent history from repeating. Amazing logic

[@shatterquartz]

Oh, those who ban books from school libraries fully intend to repeat history.

[@ergocinema]

When discussing Nazi ideology, it's oftentimes explained without any context. There's another layer to this book, in that it's deliberately building a mythology opposed to the Jewish religion. There are some editions of the book that show an upside down cross on it in form of a sword.

[@ViktoriousDead]

“Luckily, it says here in the history that the good guys won every time.”

[@notchpoodles5864]

What’s that supposed to mean?

[@konner5213]

But they didn't, the bad guys won ww2.

[@ViktoriousDead]

@@notchpoodles5864 figure it out

[@Meowcle]

Nazi

[@aaltag4068]

Looking back, Hitler's rise to power is still one of the most fascinating topics we covered in school in History class. Wile radicalization of Germany and its politics was unavoidable after Versailles, it is mind-boggling that by sheer determination (grouned on hate and fanatism mind you) and exploiting a faulty constitution some random Austrian guy managed to take over Germany without force. With force meaning that he didn't start a civil war for his, what by German historians is rather called "Machtübernahme" (coming into power) than "Machtergreifung" (seizure of power/takeover). This man played the masses and (ab)used his political isnfluence to get himself into a position of absolute power, which sadly as we know resulted in the death of millions.

[@JohnDoe-uc4uu]

The most evil book is actually the talmud

[@caj1235]

how so?

[@ThePeoplesElboww]

@@caj1235just read it dude.

[@caj1235]

@@ThePeoplesElboww I don't have the time, I just want to understand what's so wrong about it? To me it seems like a bunch of teachings about the Jewish faith and ethics, nothing harmfull.

[@ThePeoplesElboww]

@@caj1235 basically it condones p3333dphillla and grape. And if a Jew grapes a gentile girl then the girl must be killed so the Jew doesn’t have to see her again. Now, there is a lot more so please do some research instead of typing paragraphs on KZbin about how you “don’t have the time”. You have the time to type paragraphs on KZbin and read my response so stop being a moron.

[@com.7869]

​@@caj1235 it literally equates people who aren't Jewish to pigs and that that gives them the authority to swindle and cheat other humans. And the parts where it says Jesus is burning in human excrement and that he was a heathen.

[@DeanbowieEmily]

It's not evil its a book, and his speeches today are more relevant today then back then

[@Jay-uw9ry]

Do you agree with the quote about higher and lower races?

[@DeanbowieEmily]

@@Jay-uw9ry that's my opinion nothing to do with the video

[@Meowcle]

Nazi

[@CatsMeowPaw]

One question that we thankfully don't have an answer to is what would happen if the Germans and Japanese of WW2 conquered enough land to eventually run into each other. Both regarded themselves as the 'master race', superior and above everyone else.

[@ComaDave]

Operation Orient.

[@LarryWater]

Japanese engineering > German engineering

[@republitarian484]

And yet Japanese Americans received reparations for their internment while the 11,000 Germans interned received nothing but the fear of retribution. And even today Japan can still maintain their ethnicity, race, culture, heritage, etc. as they don't let in all colors and creeds from all around the world to displace them like white people have been duped/guilted into doing. I never hear any Japanese being called an Asian Supremacist for their preference to keep Japan Japanese.

[@motomatt4266]

@@LarryWaternot in this period of history.

[@LarryWater]

@@motomatt4266 The Japanese had a strong navy that could only be bested by the US.

[@mynameismudd3134]

When mustache man took over Germany the Rothschilds had to leave.

[@akuafina9-631]

Finally someone mentions what actually happened

[@notchpoodles5864]

What do you mean by that?

[@johnrockyryan]

Oh shit!! In alot of ways mustached man was absolutely right but how he went about it (mainly killing innocent children Anne Frank being one of the possibly millions) was just not it

[@natalliaf6387]

last known words....asked by his attendant: "for whom shall we fight for now?"...."for the coming man". That's you and me and our children.

[@zeniktorres4320]

The Talmud is much more evil.

[@caj1235]

how so?

[@mweskamppp]

@@caj1235 It is discussions between rabbis about how to interpret the torah. In two parts. one from 200AD one from 600AD about. Must be evil.

[@sole__doubt]

With titles like that I had to get a physical copy for myself.

[@epictrismegistos3695]

People should know that maybe the book "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" gave origin to Mein Kampf specially with that ideology of the "Seven Mountains".

[@mweskamppp]

Definitely a factor and a piece of total fake propaganda. So the master of propaganda fell victim to propaganda.

[@tiffanyfree5135]

That sounds like a book everyone should read, and study.

[@Steven-n8p1r]

No! Not everyone should be reading that!!!

[@chillindylan9828]

It’s a good read. Some brilliant ideas in that book that should be implemented today more than ever

[@notchpoodles5864]

I’m assuming that if you meant this in any way other than supportive, then I️ think you would’ve specified that you don’t support it. So what on earth are you going on about?

[@chillindylan9828]

@@notchpoodles5864 what are YOU going on about.

[@notchpoodles5864]

@@chillindylan9828 I’m going on about how eugenics is bad and we shouldn’t agree with Hitler

[@Katie-hj5eb]

I'm expecting this to become required reading in the southern states of the US soon.

[@AstraSystem]

I remember reading through a bit of Mein Kampf out of curiosity in the bookstore many years ago. The first part was so boring and rambling that I couldn't get through much of it. I didn't want anyone to see me reading it though, so I was huddled over it in the back of the bookstore in an empty aisle, after which I slipped it back onto the shelf when nobody was looking. 😅 I'd like to give it a try again. It's important to know what the human mind is capable of, both good and evil.

[@emperorstevee]

Why do you care what others think? I read lots of history books and I just openly read it on a public bus, and nothing happened.

[@darrenburcher8457]

I checked it out of the local public library while I was in high school. Only made it through the first three chapters. I saw it as the ramblings of an egomanic, and shortly returned it. After that, many times I wondered how many others gave it a similar treatment. This lack of daring to learn about uncomfortable things had a hand in the fruition of his vision. I plan on reading it with the understanding that all knowledge serves a purpose. Both sides must be understood to truly determine right from wrong.

[@wolfygrl24]

Scary how history seems to be currently trying to repeat itself by some people.

[@ullo-ragnartelliskivi4639]

Id say maos little red book was even worse.

[@nicolestimothy9921]

Both this and Red Book are the same level of atrocities.

[@pettergustafsson8879]

Maybe the Khmeer Rouge or Hutus got texts that are even worse

[@nicolestimothy9921]

@@pettergustafsson8879 there are the same levels too.

[@steelydanlover1972]

The Communist Party of Kampuchea, the Khmer Rouge, published a journal called Tung Padevat (Revolutionary Flag) from January 1975 to Septber 1978. There was also Kangura, a Hutu Power magazine published in Rwanda, from 1990 to 6 April 1994, which stoked anti-Tutsi hatred.

[@mweskamppp]

The millions of dead under Mao have a slightly different cause i think. The chinese administration is traditionally quite hierarchical and the system is a meritocracy. That means the ones who succeed in their offices fall up the ladder. The losers fall down. Especially in the early mao time that was dangerous too. So the situation was, that the county and state administrations competed with reporting the highest harvesting results to have a better standing than the next area. Unfortunately the top administration took the numbers seriously and sold the surplus to other countries. Unfortunately there was no surplus just hot air. And so many millions had to die by starvation. Mainly a mistake of the communist administration under mao. They wanted a fast industrialization and put a lot of pressure on the lower ranks even with executions for failure. So the line officials reported good numbers to buy another year alive. Tragic.

[@GraceCrochet82]

Although Churchill did say "those that fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it" Churchill paraphrased Spanish philosopher George Santayana, who is credited with the original aphorism, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.

[@SatchPersaud-sm1gc]

Damn Stalin killed more without writing a book ..

[@monkeyon777]

Lazar Kaganovich and Genrikh Yagoda too

[@mweskamppp]

Ghengis Khan killed app 5% of the worlds population.

[@lovyazid]

How manny shekels are you getting paid?

[@nicknamed1827]

Not a lot, these system narrative pushers sell themselves cheap these days.

[@notchpoodles5864]

Is that Jewish currency? Is this a conspiracy? God dammit

[@TaylorMade223]

Every. Single. Time.

[@notchpoodles5864]

@@TaylorMade223 is this a “complaining about all the blatant, dare I️ say it, antisemitism in these comments”? Or a “the Jews are always paying ppl off for propaganda”? Cuz that second one means you’re crazy

[@K.l.a.u.s]

@@notchpoodles5864 lol you reply to every anti jew comment haha, let me guess, an intern at mossad?

[@garymaidman625]

Here's a question. Mein Kampf was written in 1925. Would this still be considered as the most evil book in the world if not for the Holocaust? A lecturer I had once told the class that if Hitler had died in 1938, the year before WW2 started, he would have gone down as the greatest ruler in history.

[@leakyeak4225]

My reply is censored lol

[@garymaidman625]

@@leakyeak4225 you just replied 🤷

[@notchpoodles5864]

I️ mean that is an interesting question if it’s in good faith. It is interesting to think about how Germany and WWII would have been affected if it weren’t for Hitler

[@mweskamppp]

I would doubt that. for many germans that might been true - he managed to nationalize all the media (after he called the other media The Lying Media). When he became the head of government the unemployment rate was falling for one year already. He created a lot of jobs by government spendings. Most of them by credits from USA. for weapons and such. Germany would have been unable to pay back the credits aka pay the interest from app 1941 on. They financed the next years by looting the occupied countries though.

[@harkamelrandhawa7125]

Thank you Simon, it shows how people could get caught up in bad ideologies.

[@TRD-JDM]

Best Book ever!

[@d4gp6ou6if6]

What, never read the Talmud?

[@aberroa1955]

First thing I'd think about as "evil book" would be "Das Kapital". None other resulted in such damage and such death score as this one.

[@mweskamppp]

Actually it was first a nice analysis of the relations between work, capital, workers and capitalist and how it worked in his time. Then it was a philosophical book where he took many things from other philosophers like Hegel for example to reason what needs to be changed. He thought the workers conditions were horrible with 14 hours work a day and no security and that needed a change. He did not like the later Marxists and really liked the reforms under Bismarck. He just wanted some more of it, not a revolution. There was some last generation with his writings just as Ricardos collapse of capitalism or Malthus end of the world by overpopulation, though. Marx saw the capitalism collapsing under its own problems and possible reformations with socialist measures. He sometimes said "i am not a marxist". Just as some people who write a theory and other make a bombastic dogma from it. Marx himself was mostly an etatist who thought with government measures and spendings at the right spot the country can be led to a better direction. Bakunins antiauthoritarian group he did not like, anarchism he fought against. He wrote texts against the democratic, moralic and religious socialists too. He did not have many friends in the end. Marx did not like religion but found it useless to fight against, he was indifferent, something that did not bother him much. Marx strong side is his analysis of work, produced goods, transformation to money and capital also his discusses about alienation from work and exploitation. The weak side is his collapse of capitalism thing, also some developments in distribution and also fairness and morality comes short. Something he should have discussed more with other people.

[@jaypaint4855]

Yeah the second part of that forgetting history quote, it’s “And those who do remember history will be doomed to watch history repeat itself”

[@tarek_maza]

It's not evil it's interesting

[@notchpoodles5864]

It can very much be both. You can be interested in studying it to learn more about Hitler, how to prevent history from repeating/rhyming with itself, among other things. But the book is still evil, inspiring horrible atrocities and spreading hateful lies that have been rampant for centuries and still continue to be. I’m not attacking you I️ just got rambly

[@Dominic.Dybala]

Very nice... now let's see you do the Jewish Talmud.

[@namerelevant2499]

If there’s one man that I trust to give an unbiased description of the Book of Evil, written by Mr Evil, himself, it’s Mr Internet, hisself.

[@DiamondCake2]

I bet you email him daily begging to arrange a meeting where you can perform your felatio.

[@namerelevant2499]

@@DiamondCake2 who? Mr Evil or Mr Internet?

[@notchpoodles5864]

I️ don’t actually get it

[@AlbertaleoAlbertalei]

Really objective presentation. "Die" in German means "the"

[@mattmcgill2807]

90% of the people commenting below have not read Mein Kampf

[@olveramelinda]

Why do you make such an assumption ? Ya your right I havnt 😆

[@k.s.2216]

Talmud is most evil book, ty.

[@TheKnightsTemplar1312]

You can read Hebrew?

[@Mowkade]

Fantastic book well written, can’t disagree with a single thing.

[@Jay-uw9ry]

Do you agree with the quote about higher and lower races? If so why?

[@TheTaiylorWallace]

This video is convincing me that I need to buy a copy of this book, because Mein Kampf sounds like a playbook for a lot of stuff happening in my home country this past decade.

[@alexandrekuritza5685]

Brother, please remember that WW2 was as terrible in Asia too, it is absolutely not correct and kinda evil to say that just the Nazis murdered 80 Million pro

[@cross8215]

It was a great and honest book that also applies to modern day America.

[@notchpoodles5864]

What on earth does that mean?

[@Meowcle]

Nazi

[@JonathanArbuckle-q4c]

The Necronomicon: “Am I a joke to you?”

[@rollator1898]

My Father found one day the book in a cabinet from my great grand mother. She told him that she got it as an gift. I cant remember for which reason. She tried to sell this book in the same week. But the bookseller told her that he have already many unread books of Mein Kampf bought and he will not buy a further book, because they unsellable. So it ends up unread in the cabinet. Dont know if this story only apply to her regions where she lived, or it was a widespread "issue".

[@Rennes468]

Well my great grand parents received it as a "gift" for their marriage as it was a mandatory thing you received with your marriage licence at the time, so maybe that's where it came from

[@mattivirta]

and my country all want buy this book. i have mein kampf and alfred speer book and many other wery good and interesting book and story lot better than stalin or pol-pot and mao books.

[@urwrstntmre]

"Most evil book"? What about "Germany Must Perish!", published by J Theodor Kaufman in 1941, or the Talmud, not to mention all the books that detail how to sacrifice children in rituals? Between "Germany Must Perish!" and "Mein Kampf", only one of them called for the genocide of an entire people, and it wasn't "Mein Kampf". Wake up, folks; you are hearing only one side of history!

[@stevebabs4555]

It’s far from evil and it very relevant today.

[@Meowcle]

Nazi

[@Steven-n8p1r]

It's a dumb racist book

[@stevebabs4555]

@ I don’t agree.

[@amochswohntet99]

Simon does excellent work.

[@locked2550]

“Translating an Israeli tweet from Hebrew is like discovering a lost page of Mein Kampf”

[@josemanuelruizgonzalez9353]

Tell me about the talmud, rabbi

[@shaun7142]

I ended up reading it on my own as a part of my Holocaust studies. I'm glad the video points out what an utter slog the whole thing was. There's a reason why people call it the most printed book that no one has ever read. It's also filled with weird turns of phrase that, based on what I read, were probably from Hitler himself. Apparently he was so in love with certain comments that he insisted they remain despite is being so out of place. In particular I remember the "Jewish wh**e of Babylon" comment, which also was mentioned by a couple of texts I read that talked about the book.

[@InspireWire]

Simon is literally everywhere

[@Nickallsopp92]

Wrong, Mein Kampf isnt the most evil book. The kama Sutra is... back still hurts after trying that position...