Comments on: “Anti-Racist Hitler” and Other Nonsense About “Nazis”

By: Rusty

Rusty — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:02:49 +0000

Well, certainly, the Germans of his time knew what he meant, but fewer and fewer of us English speakers do. I was thinking about how I would like to have notes about geography and notes to explain his allusions to historical events and literature. I would not want notes telling me what to think, i.e., what is good or bad about the text, what is right or wrong, etc.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 20:44:51 +0000

Rusty, I don’t think you need all those notes. It’s just someone else trying to influence how you understand Hitler’s words. He makes himself quite plain, it seems to me.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:08:43 +0000

Thank you. I’ve only skimmed through it, but some of the notes in the Reynal version, though they might be helpful, seem hostile. I wonder if another version is needed, one in good English with notes, as in the Reynal version, but that support the Author’s message instead of contradicting it.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:50:10 +0000

Thanks, Hadding Scott, for your recent comment and your article on the problems with the Reynal and Hitchcock edition of Mein Kampf.

BTW, I bought your translation of Gottfried Feder’s Manifesto for the Abolition of Interest-Slavery. I’m heartened to know a bit more just who the translator really is.

And thanks, Carolyn, for this interim discussion of good translations of Hitler’s work.

By: Hadding

Hadding — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 07:16:37 +0000

Online you can also find http://archive.org/stream/meinkampf035176mbp/meinkampf035176mbp_djvu.txt – Reynal and Hitchcock, which has a good reputation. Although, it was translated by a committee, which doesn’t sound too good to me. It’s supposed to be very objective.

If the Reynal and Hitchcock edition has a good reputation, it’s undeserved. The Why We Fight series of propaganda-films uses that translation, probably because it’s the most hostile. I even found a hostile mistranslation in it, as I explain here:

http://national-socialist-worldview.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-that-thing-about-noble-and-unique.html

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 04:03:09 +0000

Rusty – I have the James Murphy translation in a reprint of the March 21, 1939 first printing, reset in April 1942 published by Hurst and Blackett Ltd. It’s the only one I’ve read and I’m happy with it. It’s said to have been approved by the 3rd Reich. You can read it online here: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt

I would not read the Ford translation. Online you can also find http://archive.org/stream/meinkampf035176mbp/meinkampf035176mbp_djvu.txt – Reynal and Hitchcock, which has a good reputation. Although, it was translated by a committee, which doesn’t sound too good to me. It’s supposed to be very objective. You can do some comparison between the two.

You might find something helpful here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf

By: Rusty

Rusty — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 00:10:08 +0000

Carolyn,

I have seen several English translations of Mein Kampf. Do you know which version is most accurate and readable? I saw the warning about Ford’s translation, and have read his long infomercial about it. Do you know of a reliable online source for the original text?

Thanks,
Rusty

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:12:07 +0000

Jay – Would you like to move your comment to the right page: “The ‘liberation’ of Auschwitz” program page. Then I will answer it. Thanks.

By: JoshuaF

JoshuaF — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:47:22 +0000

Thanks Dietlef for your comment (Carolyn too!) I had not heard of Claus Nordbruch. Looks interesting so I have ordered his book,
“Bleeding Germany Dry (The Aftermath of World War II from the German Perspective)”

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:17:47 +0000

“on the 8th (December 1944), the head of the Zentralbauleitung, SS-Obersturmführer Werner Jothann, requested Abteilung IIIa (prisoner labor employment) for the immediate assignment of 100 prisoners for the demolition work “at the crematorium [in] Camp II” (beim Krematorium Lager II) 258, undoubtedly Crematorium II.”

Carlo Mattogno

“The Truth About the Gas Chambers?” Historical Considerations relating to Shlomo Venezia’s “Unique Testimony”