Historical Notes: The Great Dictator

Though Hitler seemed to cover his subjects thoroughly in Mein Kampf, it appeared last week that he wrote a second book. Hitlers Zweites Buck (Hitler's Second Book) was dictated to a sloppy typist in 1928, but never published. At the time, the Nazi Party and publishing house were ailing, and as the years went by, Hitler's second thoughts made publication of the second book seem inadvisable.

In May 1945 a U.S. Signal Corps captain assigned to collecting Nazi documents received a manuscript alleged to be a copy of this unpublished work. Transferred...

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