When Did Churchill Read “Mein Kampf”?
Q: Mein Kampf
“Of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, Churchill wrote in his war memoirs:
…there was no book which deserved more careful study from the rulers, political and military, of the Allied Powers. All was there—the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit of the world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.[1]
“But he writes nothing about it before this. When did he first read Mein Kampf, and did he have any early reaction to it?”…
