Word: kampf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London. Overnight he turns its trim interior into a welter of littered papers, damp towels, cast-off clothes, bottles, of hair tonic, a copy of Mein Kampf - chaos as complete as if the Balkans had been dumped in the heart of respectable Kensington. Daily, through this mush, Director Bergmann stamps the floor like a bathrobed Hercules faced with an absurd but unavoidable Labor. He roars genially at nervous Colleague Isherwood: "I am sure we shall be very happy together...
Adolf Hitler, onetime world's foremost book-banner, became a banned author in Germany. A German "sifting committee" blacklisted Mem Kampf, also hung verboten signs on the works of Historian Oswald Spengler, Novelist Knut Hamsun, Explorer Sven Hedin, some 2,000 other writers...
...Churchill, nor Stalin, nor Roosevelt, nor any other Allied leader ever really articulated the nature of this war. It was more nearly named by Nazis in such outpourings as Mein Kampf. But the Allied peoples showed that they sensed it by the way they fought-not with great hate but implacably, as men fighting for the existence of their civilization...
Adolf Hitler loved music-especially Wagner. In Mein Kampf, he had written: "My youthful enthusiasm for the Bayreuth master knew no bounds." The Third Reich, Hitler said, had its foundations in the German myths of Composer Richard Wagner, and the shrine at Wagner's Bayreuth was called "the Olympus of German art." In 1938 Hitler ordered that the military music of his favorite composer be used at all of Nürnberg's pagan rallies, and he sat for long hours at Berchtesgaden listening to recordings of Siegfried...
...Landsberg, with the help of Rudolf Hess, he wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle}. Seldom has a plotter set forth his purposes in plainer language or more explicit detail. The book was badly organized, but in it were the plans for Hitler's aggression against Germany and the rest of the world. The intellectuals contented themselves with laughing at Hitler's ideas and correcting his literary style...