Kim Jong Un Gave Out Hitler's Mein Kampf To Senior Officials In Honor Of Birthday

[catbrooks]

Is Kim Jong Un starting an Adolf Hitler book club?

The North Korean leader reportedly gave out copies of Hitler's ideological tome Mein Kampf to select senior officials recently, according to North Korean watchdog news site New Focus International

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[lied_ohne_worte]

Mhm, I tried it too. It started with all those "and even as a boy, I was totally leading all my friends when we played!" things which even as a teenager I could see was him trying to create his own legendary Führer persona, and then he went into how he developed his ideology through his years of struggle, and it was just mind-numbing. I did read certain parts further into the book that I found through the register, out of interest or because I was writing a paper and wanted to know what he actually wrote about this or that subject, but it's really an extremely badly-written book.

I used to be with the people who lamented that not more Germans read it before 1933 and wondered whether it might have made a difference, because he was not exactly secretive about his aims even if he didn't mention murdering people outright. But having tried myself, I can understand why people didn't read it. Reviews from the time of publishing seem to have gone into the "quality" of the writing quite a bit as well, apart from the ideology.

ETA: But North Korea being as it is, I bet the people who got it will absolutely have to read it, and there will be tests and everything. I could almost feel sorry for them.