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✍️ Mein Kampf :-

The autobiography (1925–27 ; first volume ) of Adolf Hitler, setting forth his political philosophy and his plan for German conquest.

On 18 July 1925, Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf (‘My Struggle’) was published. He wrote it in prison, where he was serving a sentence for a failed coup he attempted in 1923. 

In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote about his ideology and presented himself as the leader of the extreme right. He talked about his life and his youth, his ‘conversion’ to antisemitism (the hatred of Jews) and his time as a soldier in the First World War.

In Mein Kampf, Hitler also wrote a lot about the future of Germany. He wanted to expand the German territory in Eastern Europe and to throw the Jews out of Germany, since he believed they threatened the survival of the German people. Although Mein Kampf does not refer to the later mass murder of Jews during the Second World War (the Holocaust), it does show that he had already developed a hatred of Jews at this time.

He raged against the Treaty of Versailles and the reparations that Germany had to pay because of the Treaty. He did not believe in parliamentary democracy. Mein Kampf is full of racist ideas and hatred of Jews and communists.

  Mein Kampf, Volumes 1 and 2. Published                 between 1925 and 1927

Adolf Hitler’s autobiography and political manifest. Hitler dictated this book to his secretary, Rudolf Hess while imprisoned in Landsberg after the failed 1923 revolution. The first editions, published in 1925 (Band I or Volume One) and 1927 (Band II or Volume Two) were published in separate volumes. With only a few exceptions (special editions) all subsequent Third Reich editions (1930 to 1945) contained both volumes combined in one book. Very few copies of the first editions have survived. When his book first came out it was not a success, few people cared about the book in 1925 which would almost have had a much longer title. The original title Hitler chose was “Viereinhalb Jahre [des Kampfes] gegen Lüge, Dummheit und Feigheit” (Four and a Half Years [of Struggle] against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice). His Nazi publisher, Max Amann, decided this title was too complicated and had it shortened to Mein Kampf (simply “My Struggle”). Before Hitler became Reichs Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Mein Kampf sold very slowly; but in 1933 alone 1.5 million copies were sold.

🔺 Points :-

1)   A rare, personally signed copy of German dictator Adolf Hitler’s

autobiography Mein Kampf has been sold for USD 13,000 at an auction in the US.

The front flyleaf of the book is boldly inscribed and signed by Hitler as “Only in battle will the noble man survive! Adolf Hitler on 18/August 1930”.

2)   Mein Kampf is an evil book, but it remains necessary reading for those who seek to understand the Holocaust, for students of totalitarian psychology and for all who care to safeguard democracy. 

3)   George Orwell’s Review of ‘Mein Kampf’ :- 

Indeed, Hitler’s great virtue, as Orwell sees it, is the absolute rigidity of his mind, so that his world-view, such as it was, ‘doesn’t develop’. “It is the fixed vision of a monomaniac and not likely to be much affected by the temporary manoeuvres of power politics”.  

If he (Hitler) was killing a mouse he would know how to make it look like a dragon’.

 4)  Original RARE GERMAN RARE 1937   

   WEDDING EDITION OF ADOLF HITLERS

   “MEIN KAMPF” Certified

In 1935, the Eher publishing house presented Hitler with the idea of giving a specially printed edition of Mein Kampf to every newly wed couple on the day of their wedding. This edition was published with a leather spine and would contain an extra presentation page in the front with blanks for the names of bride and groom and the signature of the mayor of the city, town or village. 

5)   Upon Germany’s defeat and Hitler’s suicide in 1945 Mein Kampf was already considered “the most dangerous book in the world.” Eberhard Jäckel, one of the leading German historians on Hitler’s Germany, expressed the significance of Mein Kampf very succinctly when he wrote that “rarely in history, if indeed ever, would a ruler even before he seized power, reveal in writing what he was about to carry out, as Hitler had done.”

6)   First sentence in Mein Kampf :-

For a racially pure people which is conscious of its blood  can never be enslaved by the jew. In this world he will forever be master over bastards & bastards alone.

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Allegedly the last picture of Adolf Hitler before he committed suicide on April 30, 1945. Hitler (right) and his adjutant Julius Schaub looking at the ruins of the Reich chancellery, April 28, 1945.

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Publisher‎- Rowman & Littlefield (15 January 2022). Language‎- English. Hardcover‎- 294 pages ISBN-10‎ 1538139103 ISBN-13 978-1538139103

   “You teach me, I forget. 

      You show me, I remember. 

      You involve me, I understand.”

                               – Edward O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson 🔼

(June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021)

He was an American biologist, naturalist and writer. His specialty was myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he was called the world’s leading expert, and he was nicknamed Ant Man.

Wilson has been called “the father of sociobiology and “the father of biodiversity” for his environmental advocacy, and his secular – humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters. Among his contributions to ecological theory is the theory of island biogeography (developed in collaboration with the mathematical ecologist Robert MacArthur), which served as the foundation of the field of conservation area design, as well as the unified neutral theory of biodiversity of Stephen P. Hubbell.

Wilson was recognized as one of the most important scientists and influential people in the world by publications such as Time & Encyclopedia Britannica. He received more than 150 prestigious awards and medals around the world, and was an honorary member of more than 30 world renowned and prestigious organizations, academies, and institutions. Several animal species have been scientifically named in his honor, mostly ant species as well as one bird and one bat species.

Work :- 

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, 1975

Wilson used sociobiology and evolutionary principles to explain the behavior of social insects and then to understand the social behavior of other animals, including humans, thus establishing sociobiology as a new scientific field. He argued that all animal behavior, including that of humans, is the product of heredity, environmental stimuli, and past experiences, and that free-will is an illusion. He referred to the biological basis of behavior as the “genetic leash”. The sociobiological view is that all animal social behavior is governed by epigenetic rules worked out by the laws of evolution. This theory and research proved to be seminal, controversial, and influential.

On Human Nature, 1978 –

“The evolutionary epic is probably the best myth we will ever have.” Wilson’s fame prompted use of the morphed phrase epic of evolution. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979.

The Ants^{, 1990 –    Wilson, along with Bert Holldobler, carried out a systematic study of ants and ant behavior, culminating in the 1990 encyclopedic work} The Ants.

Because much self-sacrificing behavior on the part of individual ants can be explained on the basis of their genetic interests in the survival of the sisters, with whom they share 75% of their genes. 

Wilson argued for a sociobiological explanation for all social behavior on the model of the behavior of the social insects.

Wilson said in reference to ants Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species. 

❤️ “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” – E. O. Wilson. ❤️

On Human Nature :- Publisher‎- Harvard University Press; 2nd edition (22 October 2004) Language‎- English. Paperback‎272 pagesISBN-10‎0674016386 ISBN-13‎978-0674016385

The Ants :- Publisher‎- Liveright (5 October 2021) Language‎- English. Paperback‎288 pages ISBN-10‎1324091096 ISBN-13‎978-1324091097