Arrested after the failure of the Munich putsch in November 1923, Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison. Detained in the fortress of Landsberg, he wrote there, from June 1924,
Mein Kampf
(“My fight”), a manifesto, the first volume of which was published in July 1925, when he had benefited from an early release. The second volume appeared in December 1926, the author having meanwhile got hold of the NSDAP, an ultranationalist small group transformed into an instrument of conquest of power. In January 1933, Hitler's accession to the chancellery transformed
Mein Kampf,
whose sales had not exceeded a few thousand copies, into an official book of the dictatorship which was set up: 1.5 million copies were to be broadcast in 1935, more than 10 million in 1945.
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It is with good reason that a sulphurous reputation attaches to the work, written in a wordy, confused and repetitive style, because its subject is extremely violent.
After evoking his memories of youth
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