I’ve never read it. No intention. For me, the reason is I can get easily drawn into somebody’s chain of logic and before I know it, I see the world differently and don’t realize it. So, I try to be careful what I eat intellectually.
I don’t mind other people talking *about* it, or reading summaries, but I won’t read what he wrote. I’m not saying anybody else shouldn’t, just that I know myself.
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However, I *did* read all of Hitler’s speeches in English that I could find. His activities as a politician interest me because I was curious how he *kept* power among normal people, rather than those radicalized by his book.
It was enlightening. He had good speech writers or was a good speech writer. The speeches could’ve been written today, containing all the aspects of a really powerful speech.
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I read them on 11/4/2016. His speech against the USA was particularly well written. Change a few names and it holds well today for other people not liked by the politician.
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it’s no prob – I would’ve answered sooner but my 11 yr old ne spent 40 minutes explaining how his group of friends teased someone in the group at lunch in a semi-public humiliation spectacle.
Being Mr. Adult I checked to make sure it wasn’t bullying – and it’s borderline bullying – but it wasn’t – just REALLY close to it.
Now I could answer you.
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The hardest part of his stories is keeping track of the names. “person a said this to person b who said it to person c and d about e, but e thought person d didn’t know and thought person c told person b and a but it was all a coverup so that person e would think person c was the source of the gossip, not person a….
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