Mein Kampf: race, blood, and the Holocaust
TitleMein Kampf: race, blood, and the Holocaust
Author
Call number943.086/0143
Object number11382f
Place of publicationLondon, England
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
Year of publication
2022
Physical description23p.
MaterialArticle
Series titlePerspectives on the Holocaust
NotesArticle from the book 'Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Holocaust' pp89-111
Description
This chapter spells out how Hitler absorbed the ideas of 19th and 20th-century German authors on race, as well as American and German writers on eugenics, and casts them in his own voice. It discusses how Mein Kampf lays out the struggle not as a blueprint for genocide but as a fertile racial ground from which it can eventually spring