How was Mein Kampf received at the time?

[LarkingPot]

@Mr.Kobayashi

As an aside it’s also extraordinary to me that people took the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion seriously and Herr Hitler was able to use it to great effect (and some still do) when even in 1921 it was known as a fabrication. Especially when it blatantly rips off Maurice Joly; seems to me like if someone got hold of say, War of the Worlds, used find and replace to replace ‘Martian’ with ‘Frenchman’, say he found it in a secret French meeting and having it taken seriously by people 100 years later. I just can’t get my head around it.

I don’t find it unusual at all that people believed it and not because everyone was dumber or more naive back then, Seeing the kind of bullshit people fall for every goddamn day on the Internet today I’d say people today are much more gullible and naive, but that’s for another thread.

You are ignoring the fact that anti-semitism was rife throughout Europe and Russia and to a lesser extent the US and the Protocols just added to that mix until the question of whether or not it was real or a forgery was moot, to many people it was real and accurate.

And it’s not like Hitler cared whether or not it was true, all he cared about was that it said Jews were evil and bad and that fit in with his views and what he wanted Germany to feel about Jews.