Should people read mein kampf to be educated about WW2 and Nazi ideology? Or should it be censored?
I think the only way we can stop people from being like hitler is to BURN that book. Honestly, I hate Hitler so much, and am so virtuous and better than you, I even say we burn all books that sympathize with Nazi's or present their ideology in a positive light. Hell, I say we have a ministry of truth to protect us from bad ideas.
It depends on why people want to read it, just as why anyone might want to read Chairman Mao Tse-Tung's Little Red Book.
We don't need read them to know how awful these rulers' regimes were, and it would be wrong to read such books to inspire copying them.
However, to understand any such leader's motives beyond simple "news-reporting" history of actions, does need knowing what these men actually said for themselves.
It's no different from anything else except in scale. You might for example support one political party over another in your own country's' election but you cannot do so sensibly if you do not comprehend your opponents' views - even if you still disagree with them. You cannot understand a war in a distant land, or a bitter industrial dispute at home, unless you listen to, or read, facts and opinions from both sides. And you need try to do so as dispassionately as possible before making any judgment.
So although we know what those regimes did, and however nasty the background dogma espoused by Mein Kampf and The Little Red Book, censoring or forbidding them would be just as wrong as their authors' similar destruction of their own opponents' words.
The more you can read and the more educated you are, the better your understanding of both history and current events will be. People should definitely read mein kampf, the Communist Manifesto, and other books. They should not be banned or censored.
BRUUH I am assuming this is another of your posts to provoke a reaction. I read it 15 plus years ago. You can read it online translated into English. He was really dumb. All incoherent mystical mumbo jumbo. He shoulda stuck to his silly art career.
His generals were running that war. He was way too stupid to do any operational stuff.
on a sidenote he killed religion in Germany. He considered being a Catholic Priest at one point in his life and a lot of his ideology was rooted in his religious beliefs -which is partially why we waned the Jews exterminated.
He use to paraphrase Martin Luther (founder of Lutheranism ) in his speeches / specifically from Luther's book "On the Jews and their Lies"
Post WW2 Germany was so repulsed by Hitler's thought process (or at least most of them) that religion took a nose dive in their country and currently, according to DW.DE (large German e-news site) only 1/3 of Germans feel religion is important in their lives. In Germany no longer is Gott mit uns
In relation to @MistyCee the religious fever we have in the USA today, and to some extend the antisemitism is near or at what Germany had in the 1930's The Southern Poverty Law Center has some of the most robust tracking of antisemitism of the US curranty
@robertsnj Decisions should be made by good leaders capable of exhibiting ability, virtue, compassion, and honor. I also don't think everyone should have the right to vote just for being an american citizen. Someone is out there who thinks the earth is flat, andrew tate is a good man, cardi b is real music, and that they are entitled not to pay child support to the kid they abandonned. <Why should this person have a say in our government? I don't think all rights should be universal. The right to keep and bear arms isn't avaliable to convicts, for instance.
@BRUUH if you are American (not sure where you are) that is the gov we have now--a democratic republic where we have elected officials who shape and manage policies on our behalf and in our absence. None of us non government folk look international trade, international relations, fiscal policy or write state legislation for government enforcement. Hitler didn't want that he wanted a Christian theocracy. Your idea of hierarchies is fascinating and could make a nice discussion but would be buried in muddled in this thread by about a man who advocated the creation of a theocratic nation (1930's Germany)