RE: Who Kills More, Religion or Atheism?
June 25, 2011 at 12:22 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2011 at 4:23 pm by twocompulsive.)
(June 25, 2011 at 10:07 am)Shell B Wrote:(June 25, 2011 at 4:12 am)twocompulsive Wrote: And on the subject of Mein Kampf which sold more than ten million, all Hitler really cared about was the fact that it made him a millionaire. He couldn't care less whether anyone read it or not.
You're kidding, right? He didn't care if anyone read it? So, you are assuming that whilst he was in jail for a failed coup d'etat, he threw all of his effort into a book that he somehow foresaw would make him a millionaire? He just made it all up because his life's dream was to be a successful novelist?
Some 10 million copies were sold by 1945, not counting the millions sold abroad, where Mein Kampf was translated into sixteen languages. How many people actually read it is unknown. For Hitler, it was of little importance. Having from the early 1920's described himself in official documents as a writer, he could well afford in 1933 to refuse his Reich Chancellor's salary [in contrast, he pointed out, to his predecessors] : Mein Kampf had made him a very rich man.
P 148 / Hitler - Ian Kershaw
A MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE : IT DOES NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS OPEN
