• ShinkanTrain
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    Charging for a public domain book cause nazi brainlets will pay for it is one way to make money.

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      Its 35 cents. Its probably just running costs. Bandwidth, storage, billing, etc. Cloud services get crazy expensive sometimes.

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    I tried to read MK once, it was impenetrable. If you’re not intimately familiar with continental politics from the F/P war through Wiemar, most of it will sail noiselessly above your head.

    I read in a history once that the joke in Nazi Germany was that Mine Kamph was like the Bible; everyone owned a copy, but nobody read it.

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      Yes, it was known to be impenetrable in the German Reich, but Germans thought it looked nice on their shelves and would occasionally read a two-sentence passage from it. Giggling optional.

      Hitler wrote it by pacing up and down in his prison cell ranting while Goebbels took notes (or recorded it, but I don’t remember if he had a tape recorder, and didn’t have a steganographer AFAIK. So yeah it smacks of radicalized old man ramblings much like Trump’s rally speeches.

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        This is incorrect. Hitler didn’t even meet Goebbels before 1925, people assumed he dictated to Rudolf Heß. It could also be that he wrote it himself on a typewriter.