Mein Kampf: A Brief Analysis of the Evolution of Hitler’s Racial Views

I would like to mention the significance of Mein Kampf, because it seems as though too many people are relying on this book for an all-encompassing understanding of Hitler. This is problematic for many reasons, but I will focus on just one for now.

If we are to suppose that Mein Kampf is the most reliable piece of writing put forth by Hitler [not literally of course because it was dictated, edited, and had the input of many others], then we are supposing too much. We are assuming that Hitler never matured or changed, since that book was written. This is untrue, as Leon Degrelle points up in his amazing story of the Waffen SS.

Degrelle makes it clear that Hitler started out as a German, but by the end of the war, he was a European. This is a profound statement coming from a man who Hitler deemed worthy of being a son. “If ever I were to have a son, I would want him to be like Leon” [not a verbatim statement]. This is something that too many historians and Hitlerians overlook.

If Hitler really subscribed to the “Superman” theory, then he certainly would not have had White Russian SS divisions, Bosnian and Cossack divisions, Muslim SS divisions, British and American sympathizers (one need only read Onward Christian Soldiers), Turkestani volunteers, French volunteers, Arab volunteers… the list goes on and on. Anyone interested in ‘Hitler the European’ needs to read The East Came West: Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist Volunteers in the German Armed Forces 1941-1945, Hitler’s White Russians: Collaboration, Extermination and Anti-Partisan Warfare in Byelorussia 1941-1944, as well as anything by Savitri Devi and Leon Degrelle. Degrelle’s Epic: The Story of the Waffen SS and Hitler: Born at Versailles are unparalleled.

Mein Kampf was written when Hitler was still young and somewhat politically “green”.

He makes a point of this during a conversation with Otto Wagener:

When I was released, I had Mein Kampf printed. Perhaps, I hoped, it would serve to rally my old friends. And that really happened! That is how it came about.

But gradually, I saw that many things were, after all, different from the way I had seen them through prison bars and from the way I had figured them out. And soon I set out to draft changes, improvements. But they only turned out to be changes for the worse. I thought about withdrawing the book. But it was too late. It made its way through Germany, it was even spread abroad, and what was right and positive about it did not miss its mark. So I kept hands off. I made no more changes. The book even gave me the financial basis for reconstructing the party. If I were to write it today, a lot would be different. But today, I would not write it at all!

For I have learned from that experience. That is why I tell myself: if I were to communicate to a senate all my most secret plans and purposes, not only would they not remain the secrets of the senate, but they would make their way into the world in a distorted and splintered form. They would be doing battle with Mein Kampf, at times even with the party program. Where is the sense in that? But if I fail to communicate everything to the senate, it starts to become a farce from the moment of its founding and will remain a farce even later on, when it is meant to be a true senate” (Otto Wagener, Memoirs of a Confidant, pp. 273-74).

In Chapter 45 of this same set of memoirs, Hitler denounces Nordic cultists. In Chapter 32, Hitler explains his true feelings about race, and they are quite different than what he put forth in Mein Kampf. Hitler matured with time—like all other master politicians and great thinkers—and this is the main reason why Mein Kampf is quite problematic. It must be used in conjunction with other information, namely, Hitler’s own private notes, letters, and the memoirs his adjutants and contemporaries have committed to paper. Hitler was a realist, and he certainly realized in time that the fate of all Europeans rested on Germany’s victory. That is why the Waffen SS became, quite possibly, the single most remarkable and phenomenal military fighting force in human history.

It would not be far-fetched or off-kilter to say that Hitler believed in the fruition of “White” greatness through the help of all of Europe’s diverse “races”. We cannot belittle Hitler by reducing him to Mein Kampf, as the ideas put forth in that book are contemplation and conception, more so than reality and fruition. As an interesting aside, Hitler issued little gold-plated Korans to Muslim SS war heroes. If we are to reduce Hitler to his Kampfesque mentality, then we are cheating ourselves of knowing the true potential of Hitler’s National Socialism. “The Nazis were not haters of other races and peoples… they were lovers of their race and peoples” (See Degrelle’s Epic: The Story of the Waffen SS).

The true multiculturalist is the one who loves his own race, above all else, but who also allows other races of people the entitlement to love their race equally so. Hitler was not a racist in the modern sense of the word; rather, he was a racialist, and there is a huge difference between the two. He did not “give” his country away and sell his people down the river in the name of capitalist interest. He wanted his folk in its land and other folks to remain in their lands, and there is nothing hateful about that. To say otherwise would be sheer bigotry.

Until people can come to terms with this and acknowledge that Hitler was not some racist nut-stick that wanted to impose Superman-style rule the world over… well, the common misconceptions will continue to proliferate at Hitler’s—and all White people’s—expense.

By the way, Jesse Owens claims that Hitler waved at him after he had won his medals at the Olympics in Germany. If this is a true claim, then Hitler was a very kind-natured man, because he took the time to make sure that Owens received his personal recognition upon the handshake “ban”.

Read more about Hitler's racial views:

Hitler's Multiethnic Volunteer Army

Hitler's White Russians

Hitler's Middle Eastern Wedge

Blacks in Hitler's Germany

"Hitler's Jewish NatSos" My dissertation based mainly on Bryan Mark Rigg's work.

Leon Degrelle: The Story of the Waffen SS [Audio]

Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant

This has been posted in response to a comment left anonymously. Now, I do indeed see this individual's point as regards that short excerpt from Mein Kampf, but, let us not overlook the fact that Hitler dictated that when he was about 35 years old in the year 1924. Those were ideas and theories that he had accumulated and admittedly regurgitated with the help of numerous others. That book had a great deal of input from other people; furthermore, it was edited several times before it was finally put to the printing press. To attempt to argue that Hitler had not changed in his racial or ethnic outlook, even if only remotely, would be to ignore an awful lot of primary evidence.

Anonymous’s argument also fails to account for the views Hitler had espoused during his conversations with Dietrich Eckart between the years 1922 to 1924 [see Bolshevism from Moses to Lenin]. I do believe it would be accurate to say that Hitler did not agree with racial mixing, but to argue that he opposed interethnic mixing, or opposed other races of people altogether, would be to lie about his racial views. Hitler did not seem to feel that Germans mixing with Slavs or Poles, or even ethnic Russians would necessarily be detrimental to the Germanic race on the whole, for instance. Besides, Hitler did not respect Jews or American whites, both of whom constitute members of the white race. Hitler told Wagener that he "hated America." He exhibited a "deep repugnance" for the American whites.

Lastly, could we not safely argue that Hitler was under pressure from popular German sentiment of the time to adhere to a particular set of racial views? We are talking about 1920s Europe here people--a context of unparalleled racial awareness, especially as regards Jewry. One must account for that when reading Mein Kampf. Hitler was under pressure to deliver the views that would get him elected. This does not mean that he liked non-whites; nor does it mean that he disliked non-whites. We really do not know exactly how Hitler felt about race because he never divulged his views without an audience present. That being said, we do have a pretty good idea as to how he felt when we read later tracts such as Wagener's memoirs, Bormann's memoirs, and his final political testament [see The Hitler-Bormann Docs]--all of which diverge from his views as recorded in Mein Kampf.

I am always willing to be taken to task on my research, so, if someone feels that I may not be correct, show me the contrary evidence.

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