Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust

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A Prelude to Genocide

by John J. Michalczyk, Michael S. Bryant, Susan A. Michalczyk

1st Edition

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Print ISBN	9781350185449
eText ISBN	9781350185470
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic
Publishing Year	2022
Edition	1st Edition
Language	English
Pages	368

Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide, 1st Edition, edited by John J. Michalczyk, Michael S. Bryant, and Susan A. Michalczyk, examines how Adolf Hitler's political manifesto provided the ideological framework for systemic extermination. Published by Bloomsbury Academic, this book investigates the connections between early National Socialist rhetoric and subsequent state-sponsored violence against Jewish populations.

The thematic progression traces key developments within Nazi political messaging and party doctrine. Chapter contributors address the tactical application of violence, internal party leadership concepts, and systematic hostility toward Marxism to illustrate how early written views anticipated wartime atrocities. The text connects these ideological elements directly to the administrative policies implemented across the Third Reich.

Issued within the Perspectives on the Holocaust series, the volume incorporates historical insights derived from the 2016 German critical edition of Mein Kampf. This publication provides structured research material for university scholars and academic specialists studying twentieth-century European political history.

Chapter Part I: The Mise en scène of Mein Kampf, 1924-2016
Chapter 1: Focus Landsberg: A Bavarian Town and its History Tied to Hitler, Karla Schoenebeck (Independent Scholar, Germany)
Chapter 2: Mein Kampf: Part of the Right-Winged German Post-War Literature, Othmar Ploeckinger (Brandeis University, USA)
Chapter 3: Mein Kampf: The Critical Edition in Historical Perspective, Magnus Brechtken (Institute of Contemporary History, Germany)
Chapter Part II: Maintaining Power
Chapter 4: Hitler, Leadership and The Holocaust, Paul Bookbinder (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
Chapter 5: Violence in Mein Kampf: Tactic and Political Communication, Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University, USA) and Ryan Stackhouse (Independent Scholar, USA)
Chapter Part III: Eugenics and Aesthetics in Mein Kampf
Chapter 6: Blood, Race and the Holocaust, John J. Michalczyk (Boston College, USA)
Chapter 7: Degeneracy: Attack on Modern Art and Music, Ralf Yusuf Gawlick (Boston College, USA) and Barbara S. Gawlick (Boston College, USA)
Chapter Part IV: Mein Kampf and the Crusade against Germany's 'Enemies'
Chapter 8: The Auroras of the Final Solution: Intimations of Genocide in Mein Kampf, Michael Bryant (Bryant University, USA)
Chapter 9: Pathway to the Shoah: The Protocols, 'Jewish Bolshevism', Rosenberg, Goebbels, Ford, and Hitler, David Crowe (Chapman University, USA)
Chapter 10: Marxism: Enemy of the People in the Political Party and Military System, Melanie Murphy (Emmanuel College, USA)
Chapter 11: Being Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf as Anti-Semitic Bildungsroman, Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College, USA)
Chapter Part V: Religious Overtones in Mein Kampf
Chapter 12: Mein Kampf: Catholic Authority and the Holocaust, Martin Menke (Rivier University, USA)
Chapter 13: The Apocalypse of Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf and the Eschatological Origins of the Holocaust, David Redles (Cuyahoga Community College, USA)
Chapter Part VI: Epilogue
Chapter 14: Holocaust Education and (Early) Signs of the Erosion of Democracy, Tetyana Kloubert (Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany)