Which translation of Mein Kampf should I get? I've heard most translations are heavily edited/mistranslated, or have openly biased footnotes and shit like that. I just want to read Hitler's words without any outside influence. Does such a translation exist?
Also, I learned German way back in high school and I'm kinda looking for an excuse to get back into it but I'm worried that Hitler may have used a different dialect or old-fashioned German that would be harder to learn. Any deutsch bros have any input on this? Can I even find a German edition that hasn't been heavily edited?
Get the stalag version. But I wouldn't read Mein Kampf at all since we don't know which quotes are attributed to Hitler. If you want full unfiltered Hitler, his opinions on society, culture, and government all detailed and straight from his mouth than I would get Hitler's Table Talks.
dumbass hitler worshippers
>>132945637
The Stalag Edition or the Henry Ford translation are the two that I've seen Nazi groups usually recommend.
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From another anon:
The Stalag edition is the only existing English translation of Mein Kampf that was authorised by the NSDAP in 1937.
It was translated by a now-unknown English-speaking NSDAP member and printed by the Franz Eher Verlag in Berlin in limited numbers from 1937 to 1944. Most were distributed to the camp libraries of English-speaking POW camps, and became known as the “Stalag” editions because of the camp library rubber stamp on the title page.
Only a handful of copies survived, and the text contained in this edition has been taken directly from one of these extremely rare editions. This official translation is not to be confused with the “James Murphy” or “Ralph Mannheim” translations, both of which were edited, abridged and ultimately unauthorised.
The Murphy and Mannheim editions both left out major sections of text, and contained long, clunky, badly-translated and almost unintelligibly long sentences.
Most importantly, this only authorised edition contains the full text of the original German -- and none of the deliberately-inserted racial pejoratives used in the Murphy and Mannheim versions (words which Hitler never actually used in the original).
Contrary to postwar propaganda, Mein Kampf does not contain a “plan for world domination” and instead consists of a short autobiography, the effect of the First World War upon Germany, a discussion of race and the Jewish Question, the constitutional and social make-up of a future German state, and the early struggles of the NSDAP up to 1923.
>>132946623
Is this mis-information deliberate? The Stalag recommendation is correct, but Table Talks is the most unreliable source imaginable. what he should read is Hitlers Second Book.
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/pdf_books/zweitesbuch_wch7.pdf
>>132945637
reynal & hitchcock annotated is the best one
>>132948869
>The Murphy and Mannheim editions both left out major sections of text, and contained long, clunky, badly-translated and almost unintelligibly long sentences.
Just how bad is the Mannheim edition? what sections does it leave out?
>>132946623
Isn't Hitler's Table Talk's not proven to be Hitler;s actual work?
>>132952798
This, it's the copy I currently own. I'd like to know if I should buy a new, different translation.
>tfw half way through mein kampf audiobook
>war autobiography time
https://www.amazon.com/Mein-Kampf-Vol-English-German-Translation/dp/0692684158/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499541340&sr=8-1&keywords=thomas+dalton