100 Years of Mein Kampf

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John Kampfner read the world's most notorious book, and discovers how Hitler's writing lives on in digital spaces, through extreme narratives about race, identity and nationhood. He reflects on how post-war Germany reckoned with its past through satire, how Allied nations wrestled with suppressing the text, and the controversy surrounding its eventual re-publication with heavy annotation by historians

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Jeremy Aspinall

A century has passed since the publication of Adolf Hitler’s infamous part-autobiography, part-political manifesto. The nascent Führer began writing the work in prison in 1923 and although it is expressed in often meandering, turgid and barely coherent prose, it was cited as the “blueprint for Nazi aggression” by prosecutors at Nuremberg.

John Kampfner, whose Jewish father fled Czechoslovakia in 1939, examines its impact and symbolism, but also its disturbing echoes in the modern world, despite the fact few will have read it today — or would admit to doing so.