Mein Kampf is a combination of two volumes, each published at different times. Volume I was released in 1925 and Volume II in 1926. The two volumes have been combined into the complete book that we read and talk about now. The first volume is an autobiography of Hitler’s youth and adulthood until that time. The second volume is what most people know Mein Kampf as, a hateful manifesto for the Nazi movement. Before reading this, I didn’t know that the first half of this book was an autobiography, I thought that it was all just the manifesto. The introduction goes much into Hitler’s childhood and the ways that he was raised, including his religious beliefs and opinions on certain things in the world at the time. Reading this introduction was not very fun, as it was very long and overdone with a lot of repetition. It seems like the author was kind of fanboying over Hitler to a sense and making him seem much greater than he was at the time. Nowadays we all know Hitler as the evil madman who started a world war and sentenced millions of people to their deaths, however Hitler was not that person when this text was published. Hitler was not a really great writer and most of this book is run on sentences. Hitler rants about numerous things quite a bit in this book and these rants go on for a very long time. The introduction to this book would have been much more helpful if it wasn’t so long and drawn out.