For better or for worse, almost everyone has at least heard of Hitler’s autobiography called “Mein Kampf.” I can recall my curiosity about Hitler and this book during my childhood, so having the opportunity to actually read some of “Mein Kampf” is great because I would probably never read it on my own time. Just to clarify, I was interested in Hitler because of how different and horrible his mind worked. I truly hate this man. I had a general idea of the content this book contains, although I was met with many surprising facts. Firstly, Hitler talks about his German pride and strong national ideologies to Germany, however this man was not even German himself. He was Austrian. Austria and Germany have their similarities, for example the language, but still, why would he be so dedicated to a country that is not his own? Secondly, Hitler had a strong hatred towards Jewish people, but he himself had jewish ancestors. As I kept reading, I found out that he was not fond of his family so I guess this was not too out of pocket. Lastly, Hitler’s original name was Adolf Hiedler. The reason for this is unknown. It saddens me to say that although Hitler’s reign was many years ago, there are still events in today’s world that are just a little too similar to history. There are many white supremacy groups still out there, terrorizing innocent groups of people. Some examples of these groups are the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) and neo-nazis. The last topic I want to discuss in this blog is the major elements of Hitler’s thoughts. We discovered in class that those major elements are racial purity (social darwinism), anti-semetic, nationalist, national-socialism, German Workers’ Party, Jewish Bolshevikism, and Lebensraum. I experienced the element of national-socialism in chapter 8 when he talks about his will to create his own party that had the initial title “Social Revolutionary Party.” Chapter 9 contained the German Workers’ Party element where he explained how the party was involved in his life and how they affected him. Nationalism was very apparent in chapter 10. He discussed the fall of Germany after World War I and his thoughts on a very strong German military. He goes on for many pages about his love for Germany in this chapter. Chapter 11 was the last chapter I read. This was definitely the hardest chapter to read because it was about racial purity and how much he wanted to water down the population until it was fully made up of the Aryan race. Overall, this book was confusing and dull which reflects Hitler almost perfectly.