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Sales Of Hitler's Mein Kampf Are Surging...
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.
- Adolf Hitler
The headline of this post is one that I am not sure how to interpret, but undoubtably marks something of significance. Personally, there have been many occasions throughout my youth, as well as my adult life, where I had a desire to read Mein Kampf. I was always curious to get into the mind of one of humanity’s greatest sociopaths. To get a glimpse of the thought process of a man capable of such cruelty and evil. To understand the types of words he used and the various psychological tactics he employed to manipulate an economically destitute and politically demoralized German population.
These feelings welled up inside of me once again back in 2008, when I feared that a financial and economic meltdown could cause the U.S. population to be thrust into the arms of a demagogue. I wanted to be able to more accurately identify the rhetoric of one of history’s more “successful” demagogue dictators in order to be able to spot similar trends should they arise in my time.
While I never got around to reading it, I did read part of one of Hitler’s speeches from before the war. It was interesting to not how he did not openly speak as a raging psychopath on his way to destroying much of Europe. Rather, he attempted to appeal to his audience as rational, passionate leader there to protect and exalt the German people back to greatness. That was the scariest thing of all.
This is what the top sales chart on iTunes’ category Politics and Current Events looks like.
At this point I’d like to remain hopeful that these sales trends spring from a similar curiosity on behalf of the population, rather than from a darker more hateful place.
From Time:
The infamous manifesto Adolf Hitler wrote while in prison after a failed coup in 1923, Mein Kampf or My Struggle, in which the dictator outlined his idea of a global Jewish conspiracy, is a surprise hit on the ebook market. While the book’s print copy sales remain stagnant, the ebook is in the top 20 on iTunes’s Politics & Events chart, next to books by Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, the number one Propaganda & Political Psychology book on Amazon, and the 17th bestseller in the company’s Nationalism list. How could that be?
Chris Faraone explains why in a fascinating essaythat argues ebooks provide the perfect format for reading controversial material. “Mein Kampf could be following a similar trend to that of smut and romance novels,” Faraone writes. Customers may have not wanted to be seen reading the book or having it on their shelf at home, but the cheap digital copies “can be quietly perused then dropped into a folder or deleted.”
Ebook reviewers’ comments support the 50 Shades of Grey theory. “I think I waited 45 years to read Hitler’s words… I wish I had read it sooner,” wrote Steven Wagg. “Curiosity killed me to get this book,” said another reviewer. The document also functions as a warning: “People need to understand that if we do not learn from people like this, then we will fall into their traps again,” Ray D’Aguanno wrote on Amazon.
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A more hateful place you say? You mean like Tel Aviv?
Time for a good book burning. Kurt Vonnegut's books should all be burned. har
Jackson sent the Cherokee packing down the trail, The Trail of Beers, Hitler read all about what he did and decided the jews should find new homes in concentration camps.
Blame Andrew Jackson for inspiring Adolf to seek world domination.
Then there's Martin Luther's 'The Jews and their dirty lies', which should be read by anybody who can read.
Interesting to pair Andrew Jackson and Adolf Hitler; both saw the evil of the Rothschild central banking squid and did what they could to end it. Who controls credit makes the laws.
The book you should be reading is The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt, which Le Monde says is one the top 100 books of the 20th century
I believe that the people are realizing that their governments and media are owned and do not work for them and do not care one damn bit (beyond political advantage) about their rights and liberty. Anyone vilified by the media and government may have a message of truth. Look at Snowden. The government and media hates this guy, and we know exactly why. Look at Chris Christy, until now I was not much of a fan because he seemed like an insider. Now I wonder if I may have been mistaken. I do not try to understand Hitler. Creating world war is not an answer to anything. And putting a group of people in the same class as the evil that hides among them is plain wrong. The Bible tells us the synagogue of satin is comprised of liars, not jews. For these reasons and others I think Hitler may have been a tool himself.
It's required reading in the 0blahma admin. Just compare what's going on in the US with what went down as A. Dolf Heiler took power-I dare you.
And on another note, this could be a false flag event. Raising couriosity. Order the book. Everything you say do and say will be held against you. For the courious, there are still brick and mortar book stores out there.
Pity that "The Creature From Jekyll Island" is nowhere to be found on that list!
Obama is following Hitler's playbook. This time white male conservative Christians who own guns are the scapegoat. We are responsible for all of the income inequality in this country and the Obama Administration is out to fix that.
So. Who gets the royalties, if any?
iTunes? Seriously?
Is that a 'surge' in the classical sense of the word, or the ZeroEdge definition (like a 1% 'surge' in gold for example)?
Hitler the national SOCIALIST -
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist...