I was assigned to read Volume II, Chapters 1-6 of Adolf Hitler’s manifesto, Mein Kampf. The chapter that I found most interesting was Chapter III: Subjects and Citizens. In this chapter Hitler talks about what defines a citizen and what defines an alien. Although from the context of what I know Hitler believed in, this passage wasnt that straight lined. He talks about if you are born in a country you are automatically a citizen regardless of your race or nationality (natural-born citizen) and states that as long as you aren’t a criminal or as long as you aren’t a financial burden, it’s accepted by that state.

In the same chapter, Hitler relates acquiring civil rights as the same as gaining membership of an automobile club. The quote is very cut and dry and doesn’t have much relating to the point of this chapter other than showing how generic gaining civil rights is. Hitler finishes off this chapter by casting every person into three categories; Citizen, subject of the State, and Alien. Every German child is a subject of the State and must complete a period of school education. Hilter tells how a natural-born German girl will be a citizen of Germany only after she marries, until then, she is a subject of the State.

In Hitlers fifth chapter, he states that many religions are just a philosophical organization that must destroy the opposing state to achieve its final goal. Such as the early Chrsitians having to destroy the Pagan beliefs and lifestyles before Christianity was recognized as the true religion. He tells his German nation that the men who wish to liberate their wonderful State, their brains cannot fathom the complexity and success of the German nation under his rule. He says they must deny and find ways to abolish the truth. In the end of Chapter V, Hitler brings up the word Völkisch, which means blood and soil. He uses this term in relation to the Völkisch Movement, which also looked at Jews as aliens to the German state and was heavily anti semitic. He tells how because of his Nazi Party (Nationalist Socialist Movement) many parties coined the term völkisch as their own and that if it weren’t for his movement then that word would have no meaning in the current time of his writing.

Hitler’s entire second volume is over the origin and importance of the Nationalist Socialist Party (Movement). Each chapter touches on his reasoning for disliking aliens (especially people of Jewish origin) and why his party believes in what they believe. While there are multiple theories as to where Hitler got his hatred to Jews from (a Jewish prostitute giving him a venereal disease or a gas attack brought on to him from people of Jewish descent) after reading these chapters it is clear to me that it doesn’t matter what started his hatred, because by the time he wrote these pages his hatred had formed into an almost religious mindset of hate. It saddens me that someone can think this way and I am glad this is a forbidden text as there was not one truthful paragraph I read.