“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. Yet a lot of people seem to think History is boring. That’s really too bad

@gregbors8364

4 ай бұрын

History is definitely not boring. History *class* is boring

@peterpain6625

4 ай бұрын

@@gregbors8364 Depends on the teacher really. I had a couple of pretty good ones. Made even the dry parts interesting by mixing in stories of "normal, relatable people".

@American-Motors-Corporation

4 ай бұрын

Yeah so if you don't want to repeat it then we'd better actually get rid of the j e w s this time!

@logangillespie7675

4 ай бұрын

@@gregbors8364 Truest thing ever said, I love learning history but in classes its somehow made boring.

@rebeccaritchie3315

4 ай бұрын

Also, the people who just want to cover it up and not talk about it because they’re either embarrassed or afraid of offending either side. It happened. We need to be able to discuss it.

those who dont study history are doomed to repeat it.. those who do study history are doomed to watch others repeat it..

@naheleshiriki5496

4 ай бұрын

No kidding people legit thought I was a psychic for being able to predict things. It's just common sense.

@scooby45247

4 ай бұрын

@@naheleshiriki5496 i usually tell people that they can know too if they read more non-fiction books and less headlines..

@LarryWater

4 ай бұрын

We’re only apes.

@scooby45247

4 ай бұрын

@@LarryWater we are not "only" apes.. we are GREAT apes, that happen to also suck ass..

@ludovicus-5oh

3 ай бұрын

Don’t get your historical sources from a KZread channel’s confused synopsis, please.

I forget who said it, but I read a wonderful quote. "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." You don't get the exact same events but they definitely seem very similar.

@rossadams9203

21 күн бұрын

Mark Twain, my favorite quote from him

@nonono9194

19 күн бұрын

Yes, the 30s appear to be repeating. Thankfully

@MichaelNelsonxxx

18 күн бұрын

Maek Twain

@michaelrandle8316

15 күн бұрын

​@rossadams9203 Mine, which was attributed to him was: "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics."

@ricksmith2609

12 күн бұрын

Why do they always say the number? Its not like that with anything else. It's obvious actually.

My dad had a german copy of mienkampf that was given to him by a former member of the hitler youth. A man whose daughter ended up converting to Judaism and whose friend (my dad) married a jewish woman (my mom). My dad kept it around as a reminder, as a kid he looked at me and quoted the book from german (which he spoke fluently) "evil will tell you what they intend to do, never silence evil from speaking because you'll never be prepared"

@mrheroprimes

3 ай бұрын

when mienkampf was released outside of Germany hitler had all of his plans for genocide/ His plans for warwere removed from the book.

@Wesley-cb6ty

3 ай бұрын

Very well said. Suppression of evil will just cause it to emerge in unexpected places. Spot on

@NotAGoodUsername360

3 ай бұрын

"You'll own nothing and be happy"

@NotAGoodUsername360

3 ай бұрын

"You'll own nothing and be happy"

@lidiaspazzard

3 ай бұрын

So, where can we find the evidence of his plans for genocide? Where are the existing copies that contain it?@@mrheroprimes

I have a copy. The lady at the thrift store where I got it was astounded anyone would buy it. I told her "you can't argue against a thing if you don't know about it."

@craigdavidson5613

3 ай бұрын

I’m still surprised one of my hometown’s high school libraries had a copy of this book on their shelves. It had the swastika on it and everything. I’m even more surprised it ended up in my possession. I’d never read it, but still, different times.

@solaceinmusic

3 ай бұрын

I actually read it in high school. It was required reading for my AP History class. But that wouldn't happen now. I graduated high school in California in 1997.

@sticksnstonespatriot1728

3 ай бұрын

It's a great read. Nothing controversial really. Just a man who was proud of his country and tired of the central banking systems parasitic relationship with his nation. I think EVERYONE can empathize with this simple sentiment

@muhammaddarrenputra6389

3 ай бұрын

​@@sticksnstonespatriot1728i mean, he had chapters about anti-slavs and anti-jews opinions on his book, even at some point he started to blame jews for everything

@mr.pavone9719

3 ай бұрын

​@@sticksnstonespatriot1728even a broken clock is right twice a day. Too bad Hitler's broken clock was missing both hands.

I remember an interesting segment in a documentary I saw on Mein Kampf. An elderly man remembered being six years old and hearing his father talking to his friends at the dinner table. He snuck into the room to see what the grown-ups were talking about, and he was surprised to see his father holding up a copy of Mein Kampf. His friends were saying, “Hitler isn’t going to start a war. He’d be crazy to even try!” His father pointed to his copy of Mein Kampf and said, “Read this book! It’s right here, in his own words!” That’s the best argument against censorship I’ve ever heard.

@mrjones2721

4 ай бұрын

It’s the same with Putin and Trump. “He wouldn’t do X! He’d be crazy to try!” “But he said right here that he’d do it.” “He wasn’t being literal.” Yes, he was. He was.

@wedgie502

4 ай бұрын

@@mrjones2721 when did Trump ever say that he'd start a war? I'd heard him say that he'd finish but never heard him say that he'd start. as far as Putin, we all know how thats going.

@archstanton6102

4 ай бұрын

He did say he would encourage other nations to attack countries who had not paid their NATO contributions. ​@@wedgie502

@jacobsirois7585

4 ай бұрын

​@@wedgie502T😮umps a fascist dictator wannabe like Putin, Hitler and especially Mousseline. triumph practically copies his demeanor and platitudes. . Trump is a 2 bit used car salesman, conman!

@HeWhoShams

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely brainwashed ​@@mrjones2721

My grandfather was a WWII veteran and staunch US patriot. Among his library he owned a copy of Mein Kampf and Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. He insisted that all his grandchildren read them so we could see how easy it was to use intellectualism to convince people to be wholly evil and so we could identify public "hate" speech that was shrouded in ideology that sounded good.

@charlessedlacek5754

2 ай бұрын

Hate speech? Who decides what hate speech is, comrade? We do have a first amendment.

@anandmorris

2 ай бұрын

I'd imagine calling for the extermination of one or more races simply for being, is hate speech.

@gaston4269

2 ай бұрын

If your grandfather was a WW2 veteran he was most likely born between 1890-1915, and was 100% a raging racist and anti semite and most likely fully supported the nazis and hitler.

@tHoM0r

Ай бұрын

A survey of British ww2 veterans show that the majority regret fighting against Germany because of what has become of the UK since. Mass immigration.

@jessicarichter6436

Ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@charlessedlacek5754First amendment don’t work outside of US. Lots of countries have hate speech laws.

Those who repeat history say "but now it's different".

@Culturalwarlord

Ай бұрын

Funny how the victim becomes the perpetrator.

@sgt.zaitsev287

Ай бұрын

​@@CulturalwarlordThere's a difference between Judaism and the genocidal apartheid state of Israel

@SarcasticPossum

Ай бұрын

Yeah sure it is.

@lukeo.2653

22 күн бұрын

So do people who don't repeat history lol

@runcycleskixc

13 күн бұрын

​@@captainahab4325 As long they believe the dictator is on "their side" it must be OK, I guess. Forgetting that it can backfire. In Stalin times, the executioners often became the executed later on.

When I spent a semester studying in Southern France, I took a class on Vichy France. The professor told us a story about how he needed a copy of Mein Kampf for his research. Several local bookstores wouldn't sell it to him. When he finally found one willingbto order him a copy, they insisted he take it in a plain bag so that if he lost it on a bus or subway no one would know it came from their store.

@frankesposito2182

4 ай бұрын

Did you dri k the Vichy water 💧?

@powertothesheeple5422

4 ай бұрын

And yet ou can order it off Amazon today 🤣

@changer_of_ways_999

4 ай бұрын

Great example of the dangers of censorship. You can't avoid a venomous snake if you don't know how to identify one.

@leeccilee7605

4 ай бұрын

​@@powertothesheeple5422 or even easier than that, I can go to my grandfathers drawer and just take it

@replynotificationsdisabled

4 ай бұрын

@@leeccilee7605 just ask him, he'd probably know you're less of a failure if you read it.

He wrote a book exactly laying out how he wants things to do. Then the Allies expressed shock and disbelief when he began to do exactly what he said he'd do.

@bjornodin

4 ай бұрын

Honestly, what are the odds that a politician will put any effort into keeping his campaign promises? 😅

@lawrencefrost9063

4 ай бұрын

just like when jihadis say they truly believe in paradise and martyrdom, believe them

@LisaAnn777

4 ай бұрын

​@@lawrencefrost9063and their ideas of paradise is kill/converting all non Muslims on Earth. So don't be surprised when they start to do just that.

@shakiMiki

4 ай бұрын

Not really. They thought Communism was worse.

@snoox27

4 ай бұрын

​@shakiMiki one could suggest it is, I mean communism is still an issue unlike Nazism 🤷‍♀️

I know its necessary to summarize his main points and beliefs, but one thing that was more interesting for me is how he tells his journey from being normal to adopting these beilefs and the beliefs altimately dominating him whilst before he considered them but thought they were bad...That for me is the interesting part, from thinking the ideas are terrible to going to war for them

Too many people hide away and say it won't happen again. However, history tells us that as humans, we never learn.

@RedDeadOutcast

17 күн бұрын

It's happening right now, substitute the word "jews" with "migrants" give it some more time.

@walkingsleeper9713

12 күн бұрын

​@@RedDeadOutcast the devils children were helping negroes into Europe for a long time.

@scentlessxapprentice

10 күн бұрын

@@RedDeadOutcastno now Israel is doing it to Palestinians.

"The enemy has printed their plans on paper for all to see. Read it, learn it, understand it. For your enemy will do the same to you."

@nicknickerson2124

3 ай бұрын

Karl Marx?

@pyromania1018

2 ай бұрын

Ironically, Hitler did no such thing because he was lazy. He occasionally had others read stuff for him, but he always insisted they give him a cliff notes version tailored to his beliefs because he was a narcissist with an incredibly fragile ego, and his bootlickers always indulged it out of self-preservation.

@derschafer1012

Ай бұрын

Same can be said for the Kalergi Plan in “Practical Idealism” and Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.

@hunkyhaggis2161

Ай бұрын

​@@derschafer1012Wow! I clicked on "reply" to make the very same comment! Touché!

@enkicat

Ай бұрын

Clear not read it then 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

When grandpa gets you mein kampf for Christmas instead of Minecraft.

@Fernando5455Jr

4 ай бұрын

Oh god I remember that 😅

@Grndl42

4 ай бұрын

That meme was hilarious!

@DKM.23

4 ай бұрын

So funny 🤣

@CrustyMcButternuts

4 ай бұрын

What did Adolf Hitler say when he dropped his bowl of macaroni & cheese? "MeinKraft!"

@vjbd2757

4 ай бұрын

"It's Minecraft not Mein Kampf!"

In 1968 At aged 10 I noticed this book on my dads Bookshelf . I asked " why do you have Hitlers book " My father said " know your enemy" and walked away. I read it that weekend.

@republitarian484

3 ай бұрын

Did your dad ever explain to you what General George Patton meant when he said "we defeated the wrong enemy"?

@Richard-od7yd

3 ай бұрын

@@republitarian484 Patton never said that ,but thanks for your Antisemitic attempt at rewriting history.

@republitarian484

3 ай бұрын

@@Richard-od7yd . . . LOL. . why is that antisemitic? And what's a semite? And yes it is claimed that he said that. And based on many of his quotes and comments it's quite clear what he thought so it is actually you that is trying to rewrite history.

@Joemama-qg8ob

3 ай бұрын

@@republitarian484they cant tell you, all these fuckers love jews and will die for them.

@kneegrow3906

3 ай бұрын

That's why I read Karl marx

there is a Dutch writer whom has written a book on the topic of how nazi's gained so much momentum and popularity. the book is called "het verboden boek" ( the forbidden book) written by Ewoud Kieft. its a great read for those whom would like to read an (good) interpetation of mein kampf without reading it yourself, because mein kampf is a very unpleasant book to read.. the book has tons of footnotes that bring some insight, nuance and noted resources.

@derektaylor2941

3 ай бұрын

Adding a comment to bookmark this for later.

@hatetheantichrist

Ай бұрын

How is Mein Kampf unpleasant to read? Please quote me one thing that should prevent someone from reading it.

It's crazy how in a sense though morally we'd love Mein Kampf to be banned, it is critical that the book not be banned. Like that line in LOTR, "Some things that shouldn't be forgotten, were lost."

@littlegiantj8761

3 ай бұрын

Sunlight is the best bleach

@intrepidpursuit

3 ай бұрын

100% this. If discussion of a topic is not allowed in the public sphere then it is only talked about behind closed doors with no one to oppose the position. That is a huge reason for the extremism we are seeing on a variety of topics in the US.

@derektaylor2941

3 ай бұрын

I was told in Waterstone book shop (UK) that "...we should never be like the nazis and should burn this book..." I replied to this silly girl- a part time worker who was, unbelievably, studying modern history at university- that the nazis would have been proud of her plan to burn books she didn't like. Oh the irony.

@brosoul9323

3 ай бұрын

yeah lets keep right wing propaganda around so that it can brainwash other people. brilliant

@quinton01

3 ай бұрын

What's "moral" about Mein Kampf being banned?

I considered history to be boring when I was a kid and thought all that stuff was soooo far in the past. Now, as an adult, I realize that, although some of it is, history is happening all around us, every day. I started watching Simon’s and other’s videos about historical figures and events in the last few years and now I understand more than I ever learned in school. Thank you, Simon and writers!

@jasonsierchio1167

3 ай бұрын

Check out ZoomerHistory for more in depth looks on WWII and Hitler

@alejandronopasanada5302

3 ай бұрын

I’m of the thinking that is on purpose. There are several things, some even identity based, that keep you tied up until you’re too old to shape a life of resistance and have a mortgage and kids.

When mustache man took over Germany the Rothschilds had to leave.

@akuafina9-631

15 күн бұрын

Finally someone mentions what actually happened

The most evil book is actually the talmud

@caj1235

12 күн бұрын

how so?

@Sabuxxxtreme

11 күн бұрын

@@caj1235just read it dude.

@caj1235

11 күн бұрын

@@Sabuxxxtreme I don't have the time, I just want to understand what's so wrong about it? To me it seems like a bunch of teachings about the Jewish faith and ethics, nothing harmfull.

@Sabuxxxtreme

11 күн бұрын

@@caj1235 basically it condones p3333dphillla and grape. And if a Jew grapes a gentile girl then the girl must be killed so the Jew doesn’t have to see her again. Now, there is a lot more so please do some research instead of typing paragraphs on KZread about how you “don’t have the time”. You have the time to type paragraphs on KZread and read my response so stop being a moron.

I read this years ago - I want to say college where we were required to read original source material. Turgid. But an absolute blueprint for what would follow. Which leads me to wonder - how could anyone have pretended 'this isn't so bad'. We make far too many excuses for all sorts of outlandish and absolutist political statements today and then act so surprised when the results align with the professed ideology.

@battlesheep2552

4 ай бұрын

Because of how rare it is for a politician to actually do what they say they are going to do?

@l4zrh4wk

4 ай бұрын

@@battlesheep2552Does that justify the murder of millions? Come on.

@captainspaulding5963

3 ай бұрын

Because this all happened in a time FAR before information was anywhere near immediately accessible. And back then, nobody in their right mind would ever think that the little stump of a man that wrote it could ever fulfill anything in it. People spend FAR too much time painting past events with the brush that comes from years of studying history. We know NOW that something like this should have been monitored. And we know that BECAUSE of what happened then.

@halcyonzenith4411

3 ай бұрын

@@captainspaulding5963 If only Google AI could have rooted out this man, and others like him, and deleted them before they ever had the chance to do anything. The holocaust would not have happened and Trump never would have been president.

@The3nd187

3 ай бұрын

​@@l4zrh4wkmillions of people in the middle east murdered by the United States?

I remember being in a tattoo studio and noticing a copy of mien kampf on the bookshelf. I asked my artist(a Hispanic male) why he had that book....he said to me " because I respect history and want to learn from it" I borrowed it and read it. Now I urge every person to do the same. Knowing humanity's past enemies from the inside out will save us from future evils.

@SebastianA.W.

4 ай бұрын

Sure, like, demonize the ones doing somerhing against the anti human agenda? The media was no different 100 years ago than today: mouthpieces of special interests.

@leaongat7549

3 ай бұрын

Out of curiosity, did it say anything about how certain modern day people control every aspect of our lives and secretly control our government taxes going to certain land giving them all the benefits we don’t have ourselves ?

@UncleFiggy

3 ай бұрын

​@@leaongat7549 Get help

@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts

3 ай бұрын

@@leaongat7549 No. He just blames the Jews for anything and everything he hated. Capitalism? It's the Jews. Communism? It's the Jews. Modern art that he didn't like? The Jews. That's what Mein Kampf is: a list of grievances from a jibbering loser.

@kneegrow3906

3 ай бұрын

Smart man.

If the book is banned. The words can be forgotten. And if the words can be forgotten. The deeds can be repeated.

@FortniteBlaster2

11 күн бұрын

Lol you clearly haven’t read the book, it’s not even bad.

@sanders7789

11 күн бұрын

Mein Kampf was written by a psychotic madman. Why shouldn’t it be banned?

Excellent video Simon. Thank you.

Hitler: "We need a single ruler under which the ranks shall fall in line and his every whim and order obeyed without question!" "Oh ok, cool. So...who should that be?" Hitler: "AHHH, WELL, I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED! I HAPPEN TO KNOW A GUY..."

@greeneyesms

4 ай бұрын

Actually, he initially did not view himself this way. Only after seeing others fail did he change his goal.

@timothyhouse1622

4 ай бұрын

@@greeneyesms LMAO...yeah, no. He knew EXACTLY who he wanted ruling when he was writing Meinkampf.

@greeneyesms

4 ай бұрын

@@timothyhouse1622 Not according to the shelf of history books in my den. His written command of German was not good, to the point where it was heavily edited by one of his mentors. He was awkward in social settings. He was a failure at everything he did until WWI. It wasn’t until German Workers Party was failing that he decided he could provide leadership.

@frankesposito2182

4 ай бұрын

Actually they wanted him...

@greeneyesms

4 ай бұрын

@@frankesposito2182 His military superior assigned him to look into the GWP. At first he was horrified at the “club” atmosphere of the GWP. I think it was Anton Drexler who was in charge at that time and found Hitler to be a good agitator. Eventually, he took over after major infighting.

I was working in a house in oxford in the uk recently and a guy was sat on the sofa reading mien kampf, that was a conversation starter.

@mattivirta

4 ай бұрын

good book has, same alfred speer book has very interesting and good read.

Love the consistent and thorough content. Recommend looking up pronunciation guides on foreign words. Was jolted when Simon pronounced Lebensraum with a long e. That changes the word to lovers room 😅

Simon: "When one thinks of an evil book, one naturally springs to mind before all others..." Me: "The Necronomicon." Simon: "...Mein Kampf." Me: "...but legends say it was written by the Dark Ones. Written in human blood and bound in human skin..."

Decades ago when I was in undergrad, I had to read Mein Kampf for a course. I had the bright orange copy with the title and author in 30+ font in gothic lettering on the cover. So I was on the subway and then the bus reading. In those days I looked a bit like Charlie Manson with a long black leather fall coat. Not only was I reading a very conspicuous copy of Hitler's book, I was highlighting it. As I thought of it as just another textbook, I couldn't figure out why my fellow passengers were looking at me funny. And I went to York University in Toronto. Those of you who know will understand how bad those optics were.

@lawrencefrost9063

4 ай бұрын

why not cover it up in public, u slow?

@bradsanders407

4 ай бұрын

"OH such terrible optics, reading a book about what we did to the natives of the place where I'm reading the book" people and their holier-than-thou attitudes are sickening. "It's OK for us to do it but not someone on the other side of the planet" foh

@amandarobb2856

3 ай бұрын

I live about an hour and a half north east of Toronto. The TTC in general is worth its own rant. I get ya!

@christophermerlot3366

3 ай бұрын

You too mate! @@amandarobb2856

@Shadders2010

2 ай бұрын

Why would a student let himself wear a longcoat and allow himself to get so shaggy and unkempt?

Great job, writer of this episode! 6 Years ago a big history and philosophy publishing house in The Netherlands recieved backlash for publishing a new translation of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of The West, as this book is deemed "undemocratic". I remember walking past a bookshop where the publishing house paid for advertisement posters to be put outside the venue. They read: "Why would you only read books that you agree with?" As a scholar in history and philosophy of culture I can attest that it is of vital importance that we read books that contain things we don't agree with. That is why my book shelve contains several works of an alt-right academic philosopher whose views are diametrically opposed to mine. It's like that saying: keep your friends near, but your enemies nearer. One has to properly understand their opponent in order to be able to defeat them or, as in this case, so that history will not repeat itself.

@jennyanydots2389

3 ай бұрын

People from the "neither-lands" don't need to be interjecting on full human business. Keep a lid on it Alex, don't wanna have to say it again brugh.

@TerpsNtacos

Ай бұрын

Same! I own Communist Manifesto and Rules For Radicals

@owlcowl

Ай бұрын

​@@TerpsNtacosI hope u don't assume that the Manifesto, a compellingly written but doctrinaire polemical tract intended as propaganda in revolutionary France, represents the best political thought of Marx & Engels, much less of 19C socialism generally.

@2MannzumHochbeamen

Ай бұрын

@@owlcowl It reveals their true agenda. The Capital is theory, the manifesto is practics.

Great book … it’s a shame the small hats are still around

@walkingsleeper9713

12 күн бұрын

It wont be long

@caj1235

12 күн бұрын

broo, this has to be a satire, right?

@CheekBonerOne

12 күн бұрын

@@caj1235people are waking up

@KUSHANDRA

11 күн бұрын

💀

Good and important piece of work here, Simon. Keep it up.

I read this book due to interest in psychology. The problem with average Germans during inter-war is that they had a bitter defeated mindset. So when a maniac guy that promise glory and destruction for the nation came around, most people only focused on the glory part and not the latter.

@shakiMiki

4 ай бұрын

Conveniently overlooking the powerful groups & interests that promoted, financed & benefitted from Nazism.

@juliankohler5086

4 ай бұрын

​@captainblacktooth371 I was about to make a comment on how insane it is that so many people believed utter nonsense. You cited Trump and brought me back to the present. QAnon, sovereign citizens, anti vaxxers, flat-earthers... Thank God there's no creature with Hitler's cunning to see all that and unify them all again, this time with social media.

@LarryWater

4 ай бұрын

They shouldn’t have raped Belgium.

@andyf4292

4 ай бұрын

its exactly the Make Germany Great Again!! if only he had had a hat with the logo on it,,,, MGGA.. only 1 letter different

@kf3914

3 ай бұрын

It’s not just that they were defeated. The British blockaded Germany throughout most of the war and after the armistice. Germany was starving for years. It was so bad that in the 1920s and 1930s, you could tell which kids were born during the war years because they were so small and under developed. Germany also had to rebuild their nation. The entire governmental system was changed: they went from having a Kaiser to having democratic elections, no one knew what type of party to establish, radical ideas were coming from every side (right and left). Much of their colonies were dissolved and given to the allies. And just to make this worse, the conditions imposed at Versailles almost ensured that animosity, conspiratorial thinking, and scapegoating would continue. Germany did not start ww1 just like Russia didn’t start it, England didn’t start it, France didn’t start it. This was a conflict between austro-Hungary and Serbia, and the diplomatic and international conditions of the time (alliance system, the fact that people weren’t avoiding war) all allowed for this conflict to happen, but Germany gets blamed. Oh, and the 1919 influenza pandemic which killed just as many as the war itself. The nazi party genuinely seemed like a viable option because they sold the idea that they would create a “greater community” of sorts that took care of each other-every family gets a car and access to vacation days at fancy resorts for cheap and every married couple gets a cheque for being married (and also mein kampf, a wedding gift from the father himself), and paid time off and they fixed the economy, industrialized Germany, upped agriculture. And also they were sticking up for Germany when it appeared to a lot of Germans like they were being bullied and controlled by the allies. Now tell me, given the state of our world right now and what happened with covid and the wars in the east, are we acting any different? All I’m saying is the average German, at least at first, becomes less confusing when you put everything into context on how they could appeal to the nazi party.

I swear this guy always has a new channel I discover

“Translating an Israeli tweet from Hebrew is like discovering a lost page of Mein Kampf”

I read it and to me his words show a man who was driven mad by a combination of ptsd from WWI, an insatiable drive to prove to himself and to his father that he wasn’t incompetent, romantic success largely lacking, struggling to make a living as a laborer, and a strong belief that the culture he grew up in and loved was dying.

@hjvdd

3 ай бұрын

Yup, same for me

@TheNightWatcher1385

3 ай бұрын

@@hjvdd Indeed. One strong quality he had was his unstoppable drive. I’ve often wondered how he could’ve used that to benefit humanity if only had a few things in his life been just a little different.

@KUSHANDRA

11 күн бұрын

I hate to say it, but he was right about the last part. People actively are abandoning traditions, values and cultures in the name of fame and money. We have been materialised and dehumanized.

Maybe this is a first of a series that studies books?Other books that should be examined like the communist manifesto, what is to be done, the little red book, the Bible, the Koran, Torah, Wealth of Nations, ect...

@Caranig

4 ай бұрын

That would be awesome. I'd watch that. Heck, I'd even be open to writing one if the idea were accepted for the channel!

@fredblonder7850

4 ай бұрын

I’ve read the Communist Manifesto. It comes across as a bit naive, but does not include any hateful rants. It basically claims that once capitalism is destroyed, the goodness of human nature will take over and make everything unicorns and rainbows. The overbearing oppression in Communist governments does not come from this book.

@maxdanielj

4 ай бұрын

With how often people (incorrectly) reference 1984, I think that should definitely be added to that list

@Caranig

4 ай бұрын

@@maxdanielj Definitely!

@tagus100

4 ай бұрын

He unfortunately couldn’t do the Qur’an as he would get murdered.

Don’t know why this was never mentioned, but the quote about not forgetting history was said by George Santayana, the Spanish-American philosopher and writer.

@hildahilpert5018

4 ай бұрын

I knew he was the source of the quote.And he was right. I never read Mein Kampf. My dad might have read the book, because he said the same things about it you have.When WW 2 came ,he had a deferment because he was working at Briggs and Stratton in Milwaukee but told grandpa he was going in anyways Said he wanted to kick Hitler,s butt.He had relatives in Germany some who were for Hitler and others against him, .Never brought anything Nazi home as a souvenir after the war unlike some guys might have Retired in 1975 after 33 years in the military.

@nesciusplayground

3 ай бұрын

Impossible to say who said it first. Most intelligent people know it is true so it was said before for sure.

@_XR40_

3 ай бұрын

Not attributed because people have been saying it for centuries. Exact phraseology may vary a little, but the concept is as old as history itself....

When discussing Nazi ideology, it's oftentimes explained without any context. There's another layer to this book, in that it's deliberately building a mythology opposed to the Jewish religion. There are some editions of the book that show an upside down cross on it in form of a sword.

Sometimes Simon can be a bit too emphatic. But in this case, his intensity is spot on and appreciated.

It's not like Germany at the time needed a lot of convincing. These ideas of nationalism and antisemitism were widespread after The Great War: "Jews and Social Democrats stabbed us in the back" and so on. The public was primed up with tons of grievances and resentments against just about everyone. This book was merely the match custom made for this particular powder keg.

@bvalt1

Ай бұрын

2000 years of antisemitism by the Christian and Muslim faiths didn't help either!!

@LazarOrthodox04

Ай бұрын

Anti semitism wasn't a thing anywhere

@bigdummy6286

Ай бұрын

@@LazarOrthodox04such a simple bait but it made me reply. very nice.

@acefreak95

25 күн бұрын

​@@LazarOrthodox04Ooo hoho brother let me tell you to look up where it all began the rhineland massacres of 1096

@nicolestimothy9921

24 күн бұрын

That book is the seed of all hatred. Now look what happens now. Hate has gone wildfire. He knew his plan works because he what the world on fire with hatered he poured out.

I remember in 6th grade I did a book report on this and got suspended for it .

@Joshr9501

4 ай бұрын

good

@rathersane

4 ай бұрын

Probably should have been cause for a discussion rather than a suspension-Kids should always be encouraged to slake their curiosity (short of harming self or others), not be punished for it.

@froggystyle642

4 ай бұрын

@JG-MV probably the truth. You know, that way that children see it

@kylerocco7467

4 ай бұрын

​@@froggystyle642I need more context on why you got suspended of course it's uncomfortable but it needs to be discussed in its historical context. That being said 6th I think 6rh grade was when my school had us reading the diary of Ann Frank and Mauz. We really didn't get into the political part of it more than the fact it happened and was bad. Honestly that's why I think a trip to the Holocaust museum should be required for American students

@deadponic117

4 ай бұрын

​@@kylerocco7467I think visiting the Auschwitz ruins is required for everyone who takes up world war 2 history

thank ou so much for making this

One question that we thankfully don't have an answer to is what would happen if the Germans and Japanese of WW2 conquered enough land to eventually run into each other. Both regarded themselves as the 'master race', superior and above everyone else.

@ComaDave

4 ай бұрын

Operation Orient.

@LarryWater

4 ай бұрын

Japanese engineering > German engineering

@republitarian484

3 ай бұрын

And yet Japanese Americans received reparations for their internment while the 11,000 Germans interned received nothing but the fear of retribution. And even today Japan can still maintain their ethnicity, race, culture, heritage, etc. as they don't let in all colors and creeds from all around the world to displace them like white people have been duped/guilted into doing. I never hear any Japanese being called an Asian Supremacist for their preference to keep Japan Japanese.

@motomatt4266

3 ай бұрын

@@LarryWaternot in this period of history.

@LarryWater

3 ай бұрын

@@motomatt4266 The Japanese had a strong navy that could only be bested by the US.

"So what's your Favorite book Armin?" Armin: Mein Kampf.

@dantdmfangamingrich9802

2 ай бұрын

A Slap on Titan reference

“We defeated the wrong enemy” Gen. Patton

@akuafina9-631

15 күн бұрын

Someone had to say it.

@foxxy-3748

12 күн бұрын

General Patton also wanted to nuke the shit out of Korea for pretty much no good reason, and took part in covering up Japanese war crimes to further American research on biological warfare (Unit 731). I don’t think he’s a very good example of an intellectual.

Looking back, Hitler's rise to power is still one of the most fascinating topics we covered in school in History class. Wile radicalization of Germany and its politics was unavoidable after Versailles, it is mind-boggling that by sheer determination (grouned on hate and fanatism mind you) and exploiting a faulty constitution some random Austrian guy managed to take over Germany without force. With force meaning that he didn't start a civil war for his, what by German historians is rather called "Machtübernahme" (coming into power) than "Machtergreifung" (seizure of power/takeover). This man played the masses and (ab)used his political isnfluence to get himself into a position of absolute power, which sadly as we know resulted in the death of millions.

Excellent Job. Yes Mein Kempf is a confusing book if you just read it as regular book but if you read looking through the lenses of looking backwards, it can make you wonder why a country so cultured as Germany could have fallen for him as he laid out everything he planned to do in it.

@Carewolf

3 ай бұрын

Because nobody actually read it. His fans were the illiterate, and it was like a bible to them. A bible that like US Evangelical they have never actually read.

@kozzy18

3 ай бұрын

There are 3 things cited but never read in America, the Bible, Constitution and Mein Kampf.

@greeneyesms

3 ай бұрын

@@Carewolf Actually, no, he was supported by the upper classes as well, who held fancy parties for him. Leading industrialists backed him as well, due to his hatred of communism. Bayer (the enormous chemical co.), the grandsons of Richard Wagner, etc.)

@Carewolf

3 ай бұрын

@@greeneyesms That was after he had swayed 50+% of the underclass, and swore off socialism. They supported him as counter to communism and thought they could control him, I doubt they ever bothered reading his book either, or they would have known his plans.

@greeneyesms

3 ай бұрын

@@Carewolf agreed

"Those who fail to learn from history will be fine, since Simon will make 50 videos a day on 10 channels to teach it to you."

Somehow manages to make Germany an economic and military superpower during global depression within only a few years of taking power. Yes we should definitely read that book and how he did it.

Excellent overview. I appreciate this summary of the book.

@user-zl2pz3iv1h

2 ай бұрын

It was gaslighting. He is lying to you.

@christophereichten9005

Ай бұрын

@@user-zl2pz3iv1hwe know you are an antisemite

as an armchair historian, i have tried to read this. but its literally so poorly done that i struggled to get past 20 or so pages before quitting.

@peterpain6625

4 ай бұрын

I was made to read the annotated version (which i can recommend as it shows how stupid his arguments really are) for advanced history. Still a brutal amount of work. I've got to agree it's one of the worst books i've been made to read ;)

@danielrose765

4 ай бұрын

I read an english translation that was produced in period then mass printed after the war so I also had to struggle with poor grammar in the text as it was translated partially by a British nazi sympathiser who fled after he saw the reality of the Nazis and was finished by nazi officers who spoke English

@duncancurtis5108

4 ай бұрын

It's boring and repetitive and rambling. In Winds of War and its sequel Hitlers poor military capability reflects his obsession that war can be won on ideology and principle not strategy.

@davidroetman3168

4 ай бұрын

The stupidity of evil.

@rathersane

4 ай бұрын

I remember trying to read it for a book report in high school (c. 1990). It taught me two things: 1. You _can_ base a book report on snippets of a book that you merely skimmed. 2. Anybody capable of the sort of rambling that was written in _that_ book is likely mentally ill, but clearly not a genius.

I remember reading through a bit of Mein Kampf out of curiosity in the bookstore many years ago. The first part was so boring and rambling that I couldn't get through much of it. I didn't want anyone to see me reading it though, so I was huddled over it in the back of the bookstore in an empty aisle, after which I slipped it back onto the shelf when nobody was looking. 😅 I'd like to give it a try again. It's important to know what the human mind is capable of, both good and evil.

@emperorstevee

2 ай бұрын

Why do you care what others think? I read lots of history books and I just openly read it on a public bus, and nothing happened.

Yeah the second part of that forgetting history quote, it’s “And those who do remember history will be doomed to watch history repeat itself”

It was a great and honest book that also applies to modern day America.

"Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. Those who DO study history are doomed to watch others repeat it."

@republitarian484

3 ай бұрын

You know the most destructive weapon of mass destruction is the purposeful starvation of a people. Look at what happened in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Now there was a new book just released about "white rural rage". . . you should look at what those two guys had to say.

Something I’ve never understood; how exactly was the “superior race” determined? Did someone just see a blonde white guy with a big chin and say “Yup, that’s the best”?

@frankphillips7436

4 ай бұрын

The “superior race” was determined by Darwinian biologists at the time. Hitler didn’t invent this “science”! He merely exploited the vile science of the day. There was a very strong adherence to the notion of human evolution at the time that “demonstrated” a genetic and racial hierarchy. These ideas were highly popular among western academics. It was due to the fact that this hierarchy was already commonly accepted that his ideas were able to get off the ground. No one at the time would have accepted these ideas simply because Hitler said them. The “trust the science” crowd had already paved the way for Hitler.

@Tyrany42

4 ай бұрын

@@frankphillips7436 Thanks for the answer!So those “scientists” determined that blonde white guys were the pinnacle of evolution? Sounds a lot like biased pseudoscience to me.

@LarryWater

4 ай бұрын

According to many scientists back then, people in industrialized nations had more intelligence than those who live in grass huts.

@Littlevisser

3 ай бұрын

Why vile?😢

@anandmorris

2 ай бұрын

​@@Littlevisser vile because there is no way ze germans are greater than us Brits. 🤣

That statement is "those who don't remember the past, are condemned to repeat it" is on the first page of the Militaries Basic Military Requirements (BMR) book. It was said by George Santanya.

maybe if you keep getting kicked out of bars so many times its not the bartenders that are the problem.

@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts

3 ай бұрын

That number is fake.

@luxcosmeticsandlabs889

3 ай бұрын

which number? i didnt give a number. but if you're talking about the 110 number you'd be correct, its somewhere around 1300. @@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts

@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts

3 ай бұрын

@@luxcosmeticsandlabs889 First, the number is '109'. Also, do you have any idea where that number came from? Because its not from some scholarly consensus or anything.

@graceneilitz7661

5 күн бұрын

@@luxcosmeticsandlabs889 Maybe if you did your research you would be less ignorant. Maybe if you understood human nature you would understand more about the world.

Notice the way that it posits that those who are not among the "naturally superior" and/or will or can not fight their way to the top DESERVE to be dispossessed, oppressed or eliminated -- and that those are the only two alternatives. So (a) blame the victim (b) make it so that the point is to get on top at all costs -- but this implies that the "struggle" will NEVER end since the only way to prevail is to always be fighting your way to the top and always asserting your superiority over some inferior. So whoever was not already on top would be at risk of being next chosen as a target.

@emperorstevee

2 ай бұрын

Natural selection

@frankendragon5442

Ай бұрын

National Socialism is Capitalism on steroids.

When I was a junior in High School, I borrowed a copy of Mein Kampf from the school library. I was purely motivated out of curiosity; I didn't have a fascist mindset. As I recall, I mostly found it a bit tedious; I didn't come close to finishing. People looked at me a bit funny as I carried it around; my creative writing teacher - who was Jewish - was a bit disturbed, but he came up to me and said, "you read that, and see how hateful that book really is!" As I had a knack for writing, he eventually accepted that I was not simply the sort who would read it uncritically.

@robertolopez9483

Ай бұрын

you're lucky no one beat you up or something, there's a lot of people who lost relatives in that war all thanks to Hitler.

Maybe I'm a software developer, but I found history and psychology to be an amazing topic for evening reading and learning. Knowledge of such topics truly gives you a superior advantage compared to the majority of people. The way you can predict the future, right to the specifics is honestly a little scary.

I’ve always wanted to read this just to understand what it was, but I’m scared of what people would think when they saw me reading it.

And the scary thing about this is that many people still believe in what he wrote, as the saying goes "you can only kill a man, you cannot kill his ideas"

@thejesterofdarkness

3 ай бұрын

V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy. And ideas are bulletproof.

@nicolestimothy9921

24 күн бұрын

And its dangerous. The man can be destroy, but his ideas is impossible to vanquish. Many are embrace it just to be edgy or worst. I fear to this day they will re-create it. 😢😔

Instead of learning from history some want us to be ignorant of history to prevent history from repeating. Amazing logic

@shatterquartz

4 ай бұрын

Oh, those who ban books from school libraries fully intend to repeat history.

Humanity's tendency to forget the horrors of war is matched only by our blindness to the signs of its impending return.

That sounds like a book everyone should read, and study.

People should know that maybe the book "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" gave origin to Mein Kampf specially with that ideology of the "Seven Mountains".

this book sounds a lot like "Project 2025"

@peterpain6625

4 ай бұрын

with "A Handmaid's Tale" woven in.

@Joshr9501

4 ай бұрын

you wish amerimutt

@pgabrieli

4 ай бұрын

@@Joshr9501 I wish what, exactly?

@pgabrieli

4 ай бұрын

@@johnnycajon4858 "The UN 2030 Agenda envisages “a world of universal respect for human rights and human dignity, the rule of law, justice, equality and non-discrimination”". that's too much for you? 😂

@tempestvenator9809

3 ай бұрын

@@pgabrieli Sadly most people parrot what they are told, especially when it comes to conspiracy theories. The self-proclaimed "free thinkers" who call everyone else "sheeple" are themselves sheep as they follow nonsensical ideas. Clinging onto real conspiracies like MK Ultra to propagate their fantasies.

Excellent summary of the key themes and a sober warning for the world.

great content

Id say maos little red book was even worse.

@nicolestimothy9921

24 күн бұрын

Both this and Red Book are the same level of atrocities.

When people ask themselves how this could have happened. Just look at the universities in the US

@tempejkl

16 күн бұрын

I mean I would've said the native colonisations which Hitler directly pointed to, but whatever.

I absolutely agree that this text must be preserved and understood for what it is. It's a warning from the past telling us what can happen when the wrong person gets too much power.

It’s not hardness of uranium that makes it a great penetrator round, it’s its method of fracturing, hardness when alloyed, incendiary effects, and cost

A conundrum this book puts us on is that if we make it unavailable for reading we won't learn from it the lessons to not repeat the past it brought on, but if we make it available for reading, some people will start getting ideas they shouldn't or more entrenched in the ones they already have.

Simon must not have read the Communist Manifesto.

@youtubezcy

Ай бұрын

Put down the bigfoot media dingus

@joelex7966

Ай бұрын

@@youtubezcy sorry comrade, I didn't mean to step on your purty pink toes. How are things in the gulag? What do you prefer more about communism, the lack of individual freedoms or the chronic shortages of every day necessities?

@AMH793

Ай бұрын

@@youtubezcyif you’ve read the communist manifesto and didn’t find it silly you should re-read it

Thank you for this one. Hugs

I have a copy of Mein Kampf published in 1943. Personally,i believe that in order to reject and oppose any ideology you must have studied it, otherwise there is no real suggestion why you reject it.

Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto has left the chat.

The Communist Manifesto:, with ~10x the body count: "Am I a joke to you?"

@rishisaini5269

17 күн бұрын

Also Das Capital

@theonewhoknocks6353

13 күн бұрын

Bruh this is like saying Nietzsche's "Zarathustra" is to blame for Hitler's atrocities because in it, Nietzsce talks about an "Ubermensch" and Hitler saw that "Ubermensch" as himself. But you Americans love hating what you have never even read.

@foxxy-3748

12 күн бұрын

Plus Chairman Mao’s Red Book, all are examples of nations who bastardized the idealistic communist ideology, and corrupted it with authoritarianism.

On the one hand, people should always remember World War II to make sure that a catastrophic war like this won’t occur again, on the other hand, this book is a manuscript of evil and additionally, world war 2 is the most evil and destructive war ever. Learning from it is important but the lessons are more important rather than the reasonings behind it. The consequences should never be forgotten or ignored.

@nicolestimothy9921

24 күн бұрын

Correct.

It’s a good read. Some brilliant ideas in that book that should be implemented today more than ever

If there’s one man that I trust to give an unbiased description of the Book of Evil, written by Mr Evil, himself, it’s Mr Internet, hisself.

@DiamondCake2

2 ай бұрын

I bet you email him daily begging to arrange a meeting where you can perform your felatio.

@namerelevant2499

2 ай бұрын

@@DiamondCake2 who? Mr Evil or Mr Internet?

I can think of another evil book, written by some hand chopping, sand dwelling off with their heads types. Durka durka

With titles like that I had to get a physical copy for myself.

I can't see why anyone would call this the most evil book. It is simply a man laying out his views and telling about his life - which is far better than those who are dishonest about their views.

Worse than Karl Marx?

I think there would be a lot of value in a video about that other evil book that influenced modern antisemitism - The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Thank you for doing this. I've been afraid to look at the book myself, as I know what it spread, but I needed to know how it worked.

@fortisch

Ай бұрын

It didnt spread. Its more like the bible, where when you finally read it, you like it less. Mein Kampfs biggest push here was that it was forbidden to buy until 2015. If that werent the thing, it wouldnt have become a mystery here.

@Moose6340

44 минут бұрын

Read it. Seriously. You'll get a little bit more of an understanding of just how Hitler was simultaneously pretty smart and completely twisted. He was an insightful judge of character and had a knack for manipulation but he was also a fountain of evil ideas.

Good solid summary

My Father found one day the book in a cabinet from my great grand mother. She told him that she got it as an gift. I cant remember for which reason. She tried to sell this book in the same week. But the bookseller told her that he have already many unread books of Mein Kampf bought and he will not buy a further book, because they unsellable. So it ends up unread in the cabinet. Dont know if this story only apply to her regions where she lived, or it was a widespread "issue".

@Rennes468

4 ай бұрын

Well my great grand parents received it as a "gift" for their marriage as it was a mandatory thing you received with your marriage licence at the time, so maybe that's where it came from

@mattivirta

4 ай бұрын

and my country all want buy this book. i have mein kampf and alfred speer book and many other wery good and interesting book and story lot better than stalin or pol-pot and mao books.

First thing I'd think about as "evil book" would be "Das Kapital". None other resulted in such damage and such death score as this one.

Geez. This is incredibly compelling. Dirty pleasure I guess.

Love your videos but PLEEEEASE use a DeEsser on the audio. It’s hard to listen with loud “s” sounds every half a second. But I can’t turn it off cause they are good videos lol.

It's not evil it's interesting

Damn Stalin killed more without writing a book ..

@danfrancis2707

4 ай бұрын

Lazar Kaganovich and Genrikh Yagoda too

Albert Speer quotes Hitler as saying that large parts of it were no longer relevant and he shouldn't have written it. "After that I (Speer) gave up trying to read it." The joke in the Third Reich was that it was "the most unread bestseller in history."

"Those who make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" - Voltaire

Not everyone should read the book, some people might like it and it might enable their radicalisation. But I think a lot of people could and should read the book to better understand how it radicalised so many. But when doing so should also try to research and understand the other events coinciding with it's publication. It's not like this one book turned normal peaceful people into terrible monsters. Their was a lot more going on that all just combined in a melting pot at the right time and place and just breathed the idea across a land of pissed off, hard working and down trodden people.

@Carewolf

3 ай бұрын

People who like rambling idiots, definitely shouldn't read it. There are some similarities with current living politicians, that are a bit too close for comfort.