The author of Mein Kampf is known by many not as the author of this book, but the author of the Holocaust and World War II. In this case, the book, the author, and the effects are hard to be discussed individually. I said previously that this book was to serve as a guiding text for the Nazi party, and I certainly believe that to be the case. The continued printing and distribution of that book in fact serves to elongate the Nazi movement into the present and future. No matter what scholarly introductions or back cover blurbs you adorn this text with, it is Mein Kampf. It was written by the leader of the movement that started World War II and still persists in some form to this day. There is a reason why German restricts the access of this book only to scholars. I would address the book’s ideas, but they are too numerous to list, and many of them are in the context of a long gone era. Like other texts that serve as the basis of a following, though, messages can be extracted and put into the modern day, with some adjustments. This text should be reproduced for the purposes of scholarly study. World War II historians will always want to know about Hitler’s book. But we must also acknowledge that some will turn to this book as a basis for their political views.