Mein Kampf (English: My Struggle) German

Hitler's main work. After the Hitler Putsch (also known as the Munich Putsch), he began dictating this book to himself in prison, and after his release, the first volume was published in July 1925, the second volume in December 1926, and a combined popular edition in 1930. By 1943, 9.84 million copies had been sold. In this book, he talks about his early life and the early Nazi movement, and explains his worldview, criticism of modern mass society, and the policies of the Nazi Party. He also preaches against parliamentary democracy, the establishment of a leader-centered dictatorship, anti-Semitism, the expansion of social welfare, the protection of the middle class and peasants, and strict control of the lower levels by the upper party organizations (the leader principle). In diplomacy, he demanded that the United States join forces with Britain and Italy to fight against France and the Soviet Union (at the time), and build a great Germanic empire in Eastern Europe. Although he later revised the wording, the argument was not changed at all, except for one point on organizational theory.

[Murase Okio]

"Mein Kampf, Volume 2 (Kadokawa Bunko)" translated by Ichiro Hirano and Shigeru Masazumi

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ヒトラーの主著。ヒトラー一揆(いっき)（ミュンヘン一揆ともいう）のあと、彼は獄中で本書の口述筆記をさせ始め、出獄後、1925年7月に上巻、26年12月に下巻が、また30年に合巻普及版が発行され、1943年までに984万部が発売された。本書で、彼は自分の前半生と初期ナチス運動について述べ、自己の世界観、現代大衆社会への批判、ナチス党の政策を主として説明し、また議会民主制反対、指導者中心の独裁制樹立、反ユダヤ主義、社会福祉の拡充、中間層と農民の保護、党の上部組織による下部の厳格な統制（指導者原理）を説いた。外交上では、イギリス、イタリアと組んでフランス、ソ連（当時）と戦い、東ヨーロッパにゲルマン民族の大帝国を建てることを要求した。その後字句の改訂は行ったが、論旨は組織論上の1か所を除いて、まったく変更しなかった。

［村瀬興雄］

『平野一郎・将積茂訳『わが闘争』2巻（角川文庫）』

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