Hitler's Mein Kampf in Britain and America: A Publishing History 1930 39

English-language translations of Hitler's Mein Kampf during the 1930s raise a number of perplexing questions.

• Why did a translation not appear in Britain and America until October 1933, seven years after it had first been published in Germany and nine months after Hitler had come to power?
• When it appeared, why was it only an abridgment rather than the full text? Was it true, as some alleged, that the Nazis severely censored this version?
• Who was the translator, and why was his name absent from the English edition?
•  When the complete text finally appeared in March 1939, why were there not only two American editions but a separate English edition as well?
• Did Hitler oppose publishing the entire text in foreign editions, or was its appearance delayed because the publishers felt that such a long and tedious autobiography was of limited public interest?

These are the kinds of puzzling queries that intrigued the authors of this book.

Author: James J. Barnes, P. Barnes, Patience P. Barnes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/09/2008
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780521072670

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