NYTBR on Mein Kampf

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Nov 14 06:49:13 PST 1998


[from a New York Times Book Review treatment of Mein Kampf, quoted in a Slate article <http://www.slate.com/Browser/98-11-14/Browser.asp> on why the Review is so boring]:

Hitler is doing much for Germany, his unification of the Germans, his destruction of communism, his training of the young, his creation of a Spartan State animated by patriotism, his curbing of parliamentary government, so unsuited to the German character; his protection of the right of private property are all good; and, after all, what the Germans do in their own territory is their own business, except for one thing--the persecution and practical expulsion of the Jews.

By James W. Gerard


>From Books of the Century: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas and Literature
>From the New York Times
Edited by Charles McGrath and the staff of the New York Times Book Review



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