The Translator has endeavoured, in his abridgment of Herr Hitler’s work, to include all the sentiments and ideals of government which the Author expresses in his complete work.
His passionate wish for the regeneration of his race pervades the whole of the book, and he has succeeded in inspiring the youth of Germany with his ideals. As far as can be judged from the book itself, Herr Hitler looks to the Movement to make the German nation call for the kind of government which he considers to be the right one, and to eliminate, if necessary by force, all elements which may try to oppose it.
Herr Hitler is more explicit about the future of foreign policy than about domestic administration ; at the time of writing his book perhaps he regarded his own constructive work as being chiefly to set Germany going along the right lines and to keep her there, CONTENTS PART ONE CHAPTER PAGE I. MY HOME . . . . . . . . 17 II. MY STUDIES AND STRUGGLES IN VIENNA 20 III. POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS RESULTING FROM MY TIME IN VIENNA . . 37 IV. MUNICH . . . . . . . . . . 6l V. THE WORLD WAR . . . . . . 73 VI. WAR PROPAGANDA . . . . . . 80 VII. THE REVOLUTION . . . . . . 85 VIII. THE START OF MY POLITICAL LIFE . . 93 IX. THE GERMAN WORKERS’ PARTY . . 98 X. THE PREMONITORY SIGNS OF COLLAPSE IN THE OLD EMPIRE . . . . 102 XI. NATION AND RAGE . . . . . . 120 XII. THE FIRST PERIOD IN THE DEVELOP¬ MENT OF THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS’ PARTY . . 132 PART TWO I. WORLD THEORY AND PARTY . . . . 147 II. THE STATE . . . . . . . . 152 III. CITIZENS AND SUBJECTS OF THE STATE 174 IV. PERSONALITY AND THE CONCEPTION OF THE NATIONAL