Hitler never ceases to torment: this is his most sinister revenge since the grave ... While Éditions Fayard publishes on June 2
Historiciser le Mal, a critical edition of Mein Kampf
, a contextualization work by renowned historians such as Florent Brayard, Andreas Wirsching, Henry Rousso and Christian Ingrao, a question arises.
Even accompanied by a thousand notes, explanations and warnings, should we republish a cursed work which we agree to say is a tissue of horrors and follies?
To do what?
For who?
Everyone recognizes the almost illegible character of this work that Hitler wrote in prison between 1924 and 1925, after his failed putsch in Munich against the Weimar Republic.
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All about “Mein Kampf”: a book that one holds up more than one reads it
When it was published, it was hardly successful, and the Nazis themselves read it little.
Goering jokes and Himmler finds it boring, that's to say!
And yet in a certain way everything is there:
Mein Kampf
is in its first part the self-portrait of Hitler and, in its second
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