Mein Kampf... beacuse someone else took Machiavelli

Written between 1923 and 1925 during Adolf Hitler's imprisonment for his failed revolution, Mein Kampf is one half autobiography and one half political ideology.

The book attempts to explain where Hitler's antisemitic views stem from but ultimately fail to give a decent reason. Other than this the book has been studied as a work of political theory. Examples of this include:

- Hitler declaring the twin evils of the world: Communism and Judaism
- The "historic destiny" of the German people was to get the new territory Germany needed to obtain, explaining why he attacked both West and East Europe before he attacked Russia
- He also blames Germany's woes on the parliamentary system and describes how he wants it destroyed

Also viewed as a book of foreign policy, Mein Kampf explains Hitler's plans for German dominance which included allying with Fascist Italy and strangely enough, the British Empire.

Mein Kampf is a controversial book written by an even more controversial man. While scholars still study it today for historical purposes, few people still actually take it to heart.