Early Battle

First Edition of Adolf Hitler's Celebrated Mein Kampf ("My Battle"), including the extremely rare first volume, which presents passages and statements which were suppressed in later printings.

Vol. 1 of this work, which was written by Hitler during his imprisonment from November, 1923, to December, 1924, in the fortress of Landsberg, following his unsuccessful attempt to take over the Government of Bavaria, was published on July 18, 1925, in an edition of 10,000 copies which was completely sold out in advance of publication. Vol. II was published on December 10, 1926 (postdated 1927) in an edition of only 8,000 copies, in a binding uniform with the second (revised) edition of Vol. 1, which had already been issued in January of the same year.

The first edition of Vol. 1 contains many passages which were later suppressed, among these being the widely-publicized statement that the original type of man was blond and that other races were the results of combinations with subhuman races, a thesis promptly refuted by many noted anthropologists.

So read a piquant item in the catalog in which swank American Art Association Anderson Galleries last week were describing parcels to be auctioned in Manhattan Dec. 9 & 10. Special clients who were permitted to pore through these early editions of Herr Hitler's Battle found many another rare bit of the Leader's wishful anthropology, since suppressed, revised or left out in translation. Samples:

P:"Jews are the regents of the exchange forces of the American Union. Every year permits them to rise further to control over the labor power of a folk of 120 millions, while only a few Americans, to their exasperation, stand independent today."

P:"England eagerly seizes the extended yellow hand [of Japan] and cultivates an alliance which, from the racial point of view, is perhaps indefensible but whieh viewed from the national-political angle, offers the sole possibility of strengthening Britain's world position in the face of the ever more powerful American continent."

P:"Christian Churches sin against the image of the Lord in preaching the brotherhood of man and in sending pious missionaries to Central Africa until our higher culture will even there have been made a foul brood of bastards."

P:"The Negroid race of France is our grimmest hater. . . . Jews, secret masters of France, are working to destroy the racial purity of Germany. ... It was, and is, the Jew who brings the Negroes to the Rhine to destroy the white race he hates by bastardization."

P:"Germany must have a peace, supported not by the palm-leaves of lacrimonious hired female-mourners, but founded by the victorious sword of a Master-People which brings the world into the service of a higher Kultur."

P:"Jews are like maggots in a decaying body. The black-haired Jew with satanic joy in his face is ever lying in wait for some innocent Aryan girl. . . . No folk can remove this [Jewish] fist from its gullet except by the sword. Only the gathered, concentrated strength of a powerfully rising national passion is able to oppose the international enslavement of peoples. Such a procedure is, however, and remains, a bloody one."

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