I read part of it. The first few chapters.

Found a copy published around then. It was sold in the usa and was widely discussed.

I found Hitler discussion of politicians very well done.

And his discussion of Jews inability or unwillingness to have logical arguments that would endure more than a day very accurate.

I found the huge footnotes on each page written by someone trying to discredit every word on each page annoying.

In some online text file version I found the footnotes were not separated from the text and so its reads like a jumbled mess.

The actual flow of the actual text is good if you ignore those footnotes (which of course is why the publishers put them in each page)

Only read a few first chapter but it was extreme illuminating and a great discussion of both politicians and Jews inbility to have a logical conversation.

He talks about how you can make a point to a Jew one day and they very next day they come back and its like you never even had the discussion the previous day. He obviously spent a lot of time having discussions with many people when he was young as he says he did.

I personally have found Jews are just very stupid. They maintain the illusion of intelligence by repeating memorized things created by large groups of people over large periods of time that serve their interests. This makes you think they are smart. Like dressing a monkey in clothes. But they can't think outside the box at all. Its why they hate conspiracy theories..it breaks their memorized world view.. and why they hate independent thinkers and call them all facists.

I've read the whole thing. Worth reading in my opinion. Most of it seems to describe the exact problems we're dealing with today. It's not just "KILL DA JEWS!!!" repeated on every page. Why do people ask about books instead of just reading them?

I bought an original translated copy. No annotations, I haven't really touched it since I read an annotated copy like 15 years ago. I really need to sit down with new eyes and read it again, probably doesn't say anything that hasn't been said by goats and voaters... Honestly I bought into the "read siege" memes and caved on a copy. That's a hell of a book.

It's well organised - not "rambling" as those who haven't read it accuse.

Probably not written by Mr Hitler as it is not even vaguely similar in style to the speeches he wrote.

A lot less confrontational that I would have thought, very spririto-nationalist (I just made that word up)

My copy didn't have any Jewish apologia

I just got a copy and will be reading it this weekend. It got good reviews even from Jews lol

Just read a chapter or two. It is not like reading Finnegan's Wake.

"what did they think of it".. pretty woke for poal, man!

My pronouns are "he, him and his".. unless the mens bathroom is occupied, then they may be changed momentarily and instantaneously to "her, it or Panzerkampfwagen IV".

I have read the "unedited" Danish translation a couple of times and had the opportunity to compare it to the German original, decades ago. Other than the somewhat somber and political laden anti-nazi foreword by the translator, it's true to the original.

Overall it's a hard read in my opinion, as Rudolf Hess did the man no favors in writing it (apparently) in the manner it was "concieved"; Hitler spoke off the top of his head and Hess typed what he said, more or less.

As i understand it, different versions were published at later stages when his career took off.. simplyfied editions for the simple minded masses.

However it's a interesting historical document and definitely the best source for discovering Hitlers motives for what he did and had to do and why national socialism was the only and obvious solution at the time..

It's not what I was taught in skool. I started to draw similarities in what he was expressing to our current culture here in America now. Within the first chapters I started to sympathize for the guy.

Definitely an eye opener.

Also enlightening are the documentarys hellstorm and the greatest story never told.

I have read more modern reprints have been edited. I'm parroting and can't speak to the implications or even confirm.

I have access to an “annotated” English translation hard copy from 1940 with a lengthy pro-jew apologia in the preface.

“All one can legitimately do, therefore, is to challenge statements of ‘race history’ as being figments of imagination, and to point out that they are at bottom more or less subtle ways of supporting still more absolute and violent forms of nationalism than even the nineteenth century knew.”

They appear to offer annotations “refuting” Hitler’s claims. I haven’t read them yet, but I would find it safe to say they are the intellectual equivalent of “Nuh uh! You’re a poopie head!”