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[–] MasivGam3 ago  (edited ago)

I don't need to explain how. It's a statement of fact that the ideologies in Mein Kampf ultimately led to the Holocaust

There is a difference between a statement and a fact, my friend. And simply claiming there being "no need to explain" does not automatically make you right and does not magically turn your statements into facts.

"Ideologies in Mein Kampf" existed long before Mein Kampf was written and nothing in the book calls for genocide. If I am wrong please prove it by providing a quote from the book.

As I already said the book was pretty tame and harmless for its time and did not introduce anything new to what existed at the time already and even was considered quite normal and routine.

Besides, calling it "ideology" is rather far fetched. Basically the author simply explains his views on history and politics, rather naively sometimes.

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[–] the_sovereign ago 

From Mein Kampf:

"the nationalization of our masses will succeed only when, aside from all the positive struggle for the soul of our people, their international poisoners are exterminated", and he suggested that, "If at the beginning of the war and during the war twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the nation had been subjected to poison gas, such as had to be endured in the field by hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers of all classes and professions, then the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain."

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[–] MasivGam3 ago 

False.

In the former case the German original says "ausgerottet", which means "got rid of" or, literally, "uprooted", when speaking about the political adversaries. He does not necessarily call for physical extermination, a murder, of anybody, far less for extermination of peoples. Poor English translation in combination with confirmation bias is playing tricks with you. Read any Communist document of the period, you will see exactly the same wording. It was the common way to speak in that much harsher environment of the time.

As of the latter, remember that we hear speaking a man who fought for his country in the trenches of the WWI, was subjected to poison gas, saw his comrades dying horrible death and went himself temporarily blind. While certain people profiteered from the same war. He is a bitter man in a different century. So he says what he thinks. He thinks that if a bunch of "pump and dump" fat cat war profiteers had died in the trenches instead of his starry eyed comrades the world would be a better place. Can't really blame him for this. As of him singling out Jewish profiteers in particular - I have always believed that his obsession with Jews was morbid and did him more harm than it helped him. Still, Antisemitism back then was as popular in the West as Political Correctness is now, so can't really blame him for that either. He didn't say anything millions of other Europeans weren't saying every day.