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Kindle Führer: “Mein Kampf” Tops Amazon Charts

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Kindle Führer: “Mein Kampf” Tops Amazon Charts

>"E-book versions of Hitler's opus are rising in the rankings on Amazon and iTunes. What gives?"<

That's exactly what I was going to say, what gives ?

I haven't read "Mein Kampf" in over forty years. May have to read it again.

So what say you ? What's your take on this ?


>" You won’t see Adolf Hitler peering back at you from the featured display tables at Barnes & Noble any time soon. But browse the most popular e-book stores these days and Der Führer’s mug is seemingly unavoidable. For a year now, his magnum manifesto has loomed large over current best-sellers on iTunes, where at the time of this writing two different digital versions of Mein Kampf rank 12th and 15th on the Politics & Current Events chart alongside books by modern conservative powerhouses like Sarah Palin, Charles Krauthammer and Glenn Beck.

In fact, all seven of Beck’s books trail Herr Hitler’s nearly century-old tell-all, which consistently holds its own against new e-blockbusters like Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, This Town by Mark Leibovich, and Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise

Mein Kampf hasn’t made The New York Times nonfiction chart since its U.S. release in 1939, the same year Germany invaded Poland, and its print sales have fallen steadily ever since. But with a flood of new e-book editions, Hitler’s notorious memoir just clocked a banner digital year. One 2012 English-language version is currently the number one Propaganda & Political Psychology book on Amazon. Another digital selection is a player in the Globalization category..."<

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At the affordable price of 99¢, Its current rank is #1,242 Paid in Kindle Store, so Danielle Steele and Dan Brown are still way ahead.

So, I don't think The Fuhrer is having a resurgence. Now that many older books are free or 99¢, I suspect it's just a curiosity event as opposed to a singularity.

But that's just my guess.
 
At the affordable price of 99¢, Its current rank is #1,242 Paid in Kindle Store, so Danielle Steele and Dan Brown are still way ahead.

So, I don't think The Fuhrer is having a resurgence. Now that many older books are free or 99¢, I suspect it's just a curiosity event as opposed to a singularity.

But that's just my guess.

Oh I'm sure that also plays a part, but you don't think that the talking heads who keep making Nazi references in regards to those they disagree with also has something to do with it?
 
Kindle Führer: “Mein Kampf” Tops Amazon Charts

>"E-book versions of Hitler's opus are rising in the rankings on Amazon and iTunes. What gives?"<

That's exactly what I was going to say, what gives ?

I haven't read "Mein Kampf" in over forty years. May have to read it again.

So what say you ? What's your take on this ?


>" You won’t see Adolf Hitler peering back at you from the featured display tables at Barnes & Noble any time soon. But browse the most popular e-book stores these days and Der Führer’s mug is seemingly unavoidable. For a year now, his magnum manifesto has loomed large over current best-sellers on iTunes, where at the time of this writing two different digital versions of Mein Kampf rank 12th and 15th on the Politics & Current Events chart alongside books by modern conservative powerhouses like Sarah Palin, Charles Krauthammer and Glenn Beck.

In fact, all seven of Beck’s books trail Herr Hitler’s nearly century-old tell-all, which consistently holds its own against new e-blockbusters like Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, This Town by Mark Leibovich, and Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise

Mein Kampf hasn’t made The New York Times nonfiction chart since its U.S. release in 1939, the same year Germany invaded Poland, and its print sales have fallen steadily ever since. But with a flood of new e-book editions, Hitler’s notorious memoir just clocked a banner digital year. One 2012 English-language version is currently the number one Propaganda & Political Psychology book on Amazon. Another digital selection is a player in the Globalization category..."<

Continue -> A "Mein Kampf" Resurgence, Thanks to Amazon's Kindle

Maybe it's just that it's become more distant history.
I forget when I read it last- not as long as 40 years but more than 25, for sure. Part of it's fascination was that it was all so close, like a narrow miss on a railroad track, but I'm downhill of 50 and maybe a new generation is reading it like you or I read about Napoleon or Charlemagne.
 
At the affordable price of 99¢, Its current rank is #1,242 Paid in Kindle Store, so Danielle Steele and Dan Brown are still way ahead.

So, I don't think The Fuhrer is having a resurgence. Now that many older books are free or 99¢, I suspect it's just a curiosity event as opposed to a singularity.

But that's just my guess.

That's what I'm thinking, people are reading it out of curiosity.

With the failure of Obama, maybe the left are thinking abandoning internationalist socialism and thinking of going the way of nationalist socialism ?

When you look at the progressives (true progressives) during America's progressive era, it was close to nationalist socialism.
 
Good everyone should read it. Interesting but ****ed up read.
 
Oh I'm sure that also plays a part, but you don't think that the talking heads who keep making Nazi references in regards to those they disagree with also has something to do with it?

I don't own a TV so I'm not up to date on "talking heads". So, I just took my best guess (and clearly identified it as a guess).

That's what I'm thinking, people are reading it out of curiosity.

With the failure of Obama, maybe the left are thinking abandoning internationalist socialism and thinking of going the way of nationalist socialism ?

When you look at the progressives (true progressives) during America's progressive era, it was close to nationalist socialism.

You know, that didn't occur to me. So you speculate that "the left" is reading up and preparing to exterminate the jews?
 
I don't own a TV so I'm not up to date on "talking heads". So, I just took my best guess (and clearly identified it as a guess).[?QUOTE]

Me either, but I grew up on talk radio. :)

I'm not sure if talk radio was around in my youth. I listen to it in my car but I don't take it very seriously, if anything, I listen to have a good laugh. I grew up without TV and I saw my first color TV when I was already 30, so I never picked up the habit. God knows I have enough other habits to make up for the deficiency:).

My Mother was a teacher and librarian so books were the only allowed for of recreation in my household.


----something is weird with the quotes----they aren't functioning properly.
 
That's what I'm thinking, people are reading it out of curiosity.

With the failure of Obama, maybe the left are thinking abandoning internationalist socialism and thinking of going the way of nationalist socialism ?

When you look at the progressives (true progressives) during America's progressive era, it was close to nationalist socialism.

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I don't own a TV so I'm not up to date on "talking heads". So, I just took my best guess (and clearly identified it as a guess).



You know, that didn't occur to me. So you speculate that "the left" is reading up and preparing to exterminate the jews?

If Hitler were have never invaded Poland and France and the rest of Europe had gone with the Madagascar Plan dealing with Europe's Jewish problem, Hitler may have been the most famous man in the world today.

Look at what he accomplished in Germany is a short time. When Hitler came into power, Germany was a basket case. Hitler brought recovery in Germany while America and the rest of the world were still in a depression. I think FDR tried some of the things Hitler did that were successful. Like FDR's CCC. But the CCC wasn't really that successful. Most Americans already knew how to use a shovel. While Hitler built the autobahn, FDR built hiking trails and bridges to no where.

Some yeas ago I was in a research library and read the only interview of Hitler by an English speaking journalist. It was an eye opener. I think the interview took place in or around 1936. I searched and searched all over the internet and can't find the interview. But Hitler mentioned Stalin and compared his form of socialism to Stalins communist form of socialism.

With in months an American journalist conducted an interview with Stalin. Stalin also brought up Hitler and acknowledges the great accomplishments Hitler made in Germany then went on to say that the Soviets form of socialism was a better form of socialism than nationalist socialism.

It's been over forty years since I read "Mien Kampf", but I still remember Hitler's views on America. We were to far gone, a mongolized nation. But he touched on imperialism and preferred America's form of imperialism over the UK's or France's form on imperialism.

It's a book worth reading for historical context to understanding where Hitler was coming from and where he was heading. It was all there for everyone to read back before WW ll.
 
The biggest loser of all time in print forever. If there was hope for me. OMG, my thesis, and it sucks.
I forgot, how many times does he say Jew" or some form of Jew"? Let me answer that... 513 times. What an idiot; a book dumbed down to the exact level for neoNAZIs, sub idiot.

0.921005386 Jew per page of Hitler Rant.

A hint which group he might go nuts on if he was MFWIC.? oops
 
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I bet the ebook has recipes and behind the scene candids.
 
That's what I'm thinking, people are reading it out of curiosity.

With the failure of Obama, maybe the left are thinking abandoning internationalist socialism and thinking of going the way of nationalist socialism ?

When you look at the progressives (true progressives) during America's progressive era, it was close to nationalist socialism.

That's a real reach, maybe it it's right wing Neo Nazi douchebags. Who knows?

Or maybe it's people who, as Specklebang suggested, had heard of it and decided to see what it's about. Buying and reading the book doesn't make someone a Hitler/Nazi sympathizer.
 
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What's the source in the OP?

It looks nuts.
 
The fact it's about equally in demand as palin and beck should tell us something...
 
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I'm not sure if talk radio was around in my youth. I listen to it in my car but I don't take it very seriously, if anything, I listen to have a good laugh. I grew up without TV and I saw my first color TV when I was already 30, so I never picked up the habit. God knows I have enough other habits to make up for the deficiency:).

My Mother was a teacher and librarian so books were the only allowed for of recreation in my household.


----something is weird with the quotes----they aren't functioning properly.

I remember one of the first talk radio programs during the 1960's. On the Left Coast it was Joe Pyne. A conservative WW ll combat Marine vet who lost his leg in the Pacific and always packed a handgun.

By the mid 60's he went on television with his own show.
During the Watts riots I remember when he pulled the handgun out while asking a pantywaist liberal, how were you going to protect your family, with spit wads he asked ? (Yep, they had pantywaist liberals during the mid 60's.

 
That's a real reach, maybe it it's right wing Neo Nazi douchebags. Who knows?

Or maybe it's people who, as Specklebang suggested, had heard of it and decided to see what it's about. Buying and reading the book doesn't make someone a Hitler/Nazi sympathizer.

I don't think "neo-nazis" are capable of comprehending a comic book.
 
I'm not sure if talk radio was around in my youth. I listen to it in my car but I don't take it very seriously, if anything, I listen to have a good laugh. I grew up without TV and I saw my first color TV when I was already 30, so I never picked up the habit. God knows I have enough other habits to make up for the deficiency:).

My Mother was a teacher and librarian so books were the only allowed for of recreation in my household.

Well, the talk radio of my youth was quite literally talking -- or rather, the kind of talking you'd expect between interested adults in a bar discussing current events. It wasn't hysterical, it wasn't designed to whip people into a frenzy. The audience was attracted more by the personability of the host, rather than the temperature of their spew. Bruce Williams is an excellent example of this, Paul Harvey (to a lesser extent) another.
 

So what's your take on it Your Star ? Why are so many reading "Mein Kampf" today ?

Is it the younger generation who are reading it ? Could it be that since they no longer teach history in our schools, that even having units in history to get a BS or BA in our colleges today isn't required. And the only history that is taught is liberal revisionist history to further a political agenda, the younger generation are curious for the truth ?

You read "Mein Kampf" and you see the only difference between what the radicals with in the Democrat Party are advocating is that todays leftist aren't nationalist and blame America for everything that is wrong in the world. Internationalist vs. nationalist. Until just very recently, American progressives were nationalist. Also racist and are still today.
 
Don't be like that. You're better than that.

Yeah i was totally joking, and i appreciate beck's recent comment on "heterofascist" russia.
 
APACHERAT;1062771154 You read "Mein Kampf" and you see the only difference between what the radicals with in the Democrat Party are advocating is that todays leftist aren't nationalist and blame America for everything that is wrong in the world. Internationalist vs. nationalist. Until just very recently said:
Are you arguing here that the only difference between radical Democrats today and Nazis is that the Democrats aren't nationalist, or am I reading you wrong?
 
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