There has been little demand for “Hitler’s Second Book,” a sequel to ” Mein Kampf,” which was placed on sale here last week.
The book, written before Mein Kampf was published and kept secret during Hitler’s lifetime, was found in manuscript form hidden in a vault in the central Nazi publishing house in Munich until it was seized by the United States Army in 1945 and sent to Washington. It was forgotten until a few years ago when it was traced and authenticated by Prof. Gerhard L. Weinberg of the University of Michigan, who wrote a forward to the volume.
Two themes mark the second book. One is an idealization of constant war as “the highest driving force for the development of mankind.” The other is Hitler’s psychotic anti-Semitism, exhibited in constant references to the “Jewish parasites” and the dangers to the world from “racial bastardization.”
As in Mein kampf, the principal theme of Germany’s expansion was toward “the east,” meaning the Soviet Union, which Hitler asserted, would fall apart with the destruction of “its Jewish leaders.” The second Hitler book ends with a tirade of hate against Jews, using such expressions as “wiping out” and “annihilating” –a forecast of what the Nazis were to do to Jewish victims after they attained the power to do it.
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