In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown
Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet to be called
Settling Accounts. In it he intended to attack the ineffectiveness
of the dominant political parties in Germany which were opposed to
the new National Socialists (Nazis). In November 1923, Adolf Hitler
was jailed for the abortive Munich Beer Hall putsch along with men
willing and able to assist him with his writing. With the help of
these collaborators, chief among them Rudolf Hess, the pamphlet
became a book. Settling Accounts became Mein Kampf, an unparalleled
example of muddled economics and history, appalling bigotry, and an
intense self-glorification of Adolf Hitler as the true founder and
builder of the National Socialist movement. It was written in hate
and it contained a blueprint for violent bloodshed. When Mein Kampf
was published in 1925, it was a failure. In 1926 a second volume
appeared - it was no more successful than the first. People either
laughed at it or ignored it. They were wrong to do so. As Hitler's
power increased, pressure was put on all party members to buy the
book. Gradually this pressure was extended to all elements of the
German population. Soon Mein Kampf was even being passed out to
newlywed couples as a gift. Ironically, and frighteningly, by the
time Hitler came to power on January 30, 1933, what has been
considered by many to be the most satanic book ever written was
running neck and neck with the Bible at the top of the German
bestseller lists.

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