When Churchill Read Mein Kampf
When did Churchill read Mein Kampf? The question came up in a Finest Hour quiz and the answer was: “In translated excerpts, and then in its entirety when E.J. Dugdale’s translation into English was published in 1933.”
Gordon Craig’s “Churchill and Germany” in Robert Blake and Wm. Roger Louis, eds., Churchill: A Major New Assessment of His Life in Peace and War, states: “Churchill seems at one time to have read an early translation of Mein Kampf; but he certainly did not have more than a newspaper reader’s knowledge of the nature of Hitler’s party or its current views on foreign policy.…
