Hitler’s famous book, the Bible of the Nazi party, is called “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle). Hitler originally wanted to call it, “Mein vier-ein-halb jahriger Kampf gegen Lugen, Dummheit, und Feigheit: eine Rechenschaft mit den Feinden der nationalsozialistichen Bewegung”. All of which means, “My Four and One-Half Year Struggle against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice: Settling Accounts with the Enemies of the National Socialist Movement”. He was talked out of that ridiculous title by Max Amann, who was his fellow inmate in Landsberg Prison in 1923. Amann suggested that Hitler change the title to “Mein Kampf”, and the rest is history. What would the Nazis have done without “Mein Kampf”, and how could they have survived with a surely to have been ridiculed leader?
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