I think reading the introduction to this book really helped me with understanding the things that Hitler speaks about, and I also took some things with a grain of salt. In the introduction they advise that some of the truths may be glossed over to make Hitler look better and I think this speaks about the type of person he was. In the beginning of the book, he is already talking about Germany being the ‘motherland’ and how his ultimate goal is to reunite the motherland. He talks about his childhood and going to school. He wanted to go to the Academy of Art in Vienna, but he was denied which I think plays a big role in his next steps. He was homeless and poor for a while, selling art on the streets. Before his move to Munich, he evades the Austrian military and is found and deemed unfit for service. After this he moves to Munich and says that he felt more at home than he ever had. He starts studying political events and German foreign policy, which he is against. At the involvement of Germany in WW1 Hitler joins a Bavarian unit, he finds that soldiers are more valuable than politicians and he really romanticizes being a soldier and being in war. After this Hitler starts obsessing over propaganda and thinks Germany’s use of propaganda isn’t good enough, and he thinks he will do better. Hitler returns to Munich in 1918, and this is where his Nazi views really start to form into something more than just a thought. He blames the first World War on Marxism and Jewish people, and these two things he highly opposes. He attended a lecture from Gottfried Feder who was a violent German nationalist, and he starts to form ideas for his new party. The beginning of this book and chapters 1-9 really just set up the foundations for how his Nazi beliefs started and later in this book it gets worse.