Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, trans. J. Murphy (London Hurst and Blackett, 1939), pp. 541-2. 

Karl Haushofer, who ghost-wrote most of Mein Kampf in Hitler s prison cell 50 years later, named his first secret organization the "Vril Society." (13) Bulwer-Lytton s Nazi German and British secret societies met officially for the last time when Nazi minister Rudolf Hess attempted to make contact in 1941 by flying to Britain. 

See Robert Cohen and L. Wolfe, "Karl Haushofer s Mein Kampf," New Solidarity, Vol. IX, No. 45, August 7,1978. 

This was written in "Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler he was in hospital recovering from expected blindness caused by a mustard gas attack when Germany surrendered ("the greatest villainy of the century"), and there he resolved to reverse Germany s defeat. It was Hitler s rise to power that was the cause of Haber leaving Germany in 1933. 

In October 1918, Adolph Hitler was exposed to mustard gas. He was at the time a runner in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment. He included the following graphic account in Mein Kampf (Vo. 1, 1924). 

Described in Mein Kampf. Hider is said to have ascribed the recovery of his sight after being blinded by mustard gas to divine intervention — a supernatural sign which made him determined to become a politician. 

The Beer Hall Putsch on November 8, 1923, delivered Hitler to a comfortable, sunlit cell in Landsberg prison, where he dictated his personal and political testament to his bashful acolyte Rudolf Hess. Mein Kampf h s much to say about the Jews. Across the nearly seven hundred pages of its two volumes it refers to Jewry more frequently than to any other subject except Marxism—and Hitler considered Marxism a Jewish invention and a Jewish weapon. ... 

Jews, the future Chancellor of Germany declares in Mein Kampf, are no lovers of water. He often grew sick to my stomach from [their] smell. Their dress is unclean, their appearance generally unheroic. A foreign people, they have definite racial characteristics they are inferior being[sj, vampires with poison fangs, yellow fist[sj and repulsive traits. The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew. ... 

But the scurrilities of Mein Kampf, which on the evidence of their incoherence are not calculated manipulations but violent emotional outbursts, demonstrate that Hitler pathologically feared and hated the Jews. In black megalomania he masked an intelligent, industrious and much-persecuted people with the distorted features of his own terror. And that would make all the difference. 

Hitler, Adolf. 1927. Mein Kampf Houghton Mifflin, 1971. 

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