Mein Kampf (My Struggle) - Adolf Hitler - Unabridged English

Full unabridged version from Audiobooksforfree.com, at 48kbps.

As a former history teacher, I have always found it fascinating that so many people are constantly quoting from famous and influential books (Mein Kampf, Das Kapital, The Bible), but the number of people who have actually bothered to READ them is tiny, and the ones who can claim to have STUDIED them is absolutely infinitesimal. Rather than comment on politics or racism, let me just say that (whatever your personal political views), it is amazing that a book as disjointed, pedantic, or badly written as this could have had the positive effect on the NSDAP that it did. I recall reading a biography on Hitler once that noted this book was one of the most purchased and least read books of all time. In any event, it is a hugely important historical document, and trying to find a decent audio quality English-version is no easy trick. I found this copy on a private tracker with only a few seeders, and since I believe in freedom of ALL information, it seemed appropriate to give it a wider audience. My guess is that very few people are going to be able to get through this tangled morass of bad grammar and pompous rhetoric, even if they happen to agree with the twit.

The history and textual explanations at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_kampf are very well done by way of a study aid, and I couldn’t help including this tidbit about the extent to which the book is still banned:


The government of Bavaria, in agreement with the federal government of Germany, does not allow any copying or printing of the book in Germany and opposes it also in other countries but with less success. Owning and buying the book is legal. Trading in old copies is legal as well unless it is done in such a fashion as to “promote hatred or war”, which is, under anti-revisionist laws, generally illegal. In particular, the unmodified edition is not covered by