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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
's ''
Mein Kampf (; ''My Struggle'' or ''My Battle'') is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germ ...
'' in
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has been complicated and has been the occasion for controversy. Four full translations were completed before 1945, as well as a number of extracts in newspapers, pamphlets, government documents and unpublished typescripts. Not all of these had official approval from Hitler's publishers,
Eher Verlag Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH (''Franz Eher and Successors, LLC'', usually referred to as the Eher-Verlag (''Eher Publishing'')) was the central publishing house of the Nazi Party and one of the largest book and periodical firms during the Third Rei ...
. My Struggle'' (Dugdale abridgement) was published by
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in October 1933, who published a cheap Paternoster Library edition in October 1935 (a March 1936 edition said ''14th Thousand'' on the title page). Hurst and Blackett also published ''My Autobiography'' by
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. Since the war, the 1943
Ralph Manheim Ralph Frederick Manheim (April 4, 1907 – September 26, 1992) was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian. He was one of the most acclaimed translators of the 20th cent ...
translation has been the most commonly published translation, though Manheim later expressed reservations about his translation, and other versions have continued to circulate.


Dugdale abridgement

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took steps to secure the
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and trademark rights to ''Mein Kampf'' in the United States in 1925 and 1927. In 1928, the literary agency Curtis Brown, Limited secured the assignment for negotiation of translation rights in the United States and Great Britain, and a German copy was picked up by their employee,
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. However, the firm found it difficult to interest publishers in the 782-page book by the leader of what was then an obscure splinter party in Germany. Even after the elections of September 1930, when the
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became the second largest party in the Reichstag, publishers were cautious about investing in a translation, due to the
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. The same election inspired
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to urge her husband, E.T.S. Dugdale, to write an abridgement of ''Mein Kampf''. Dugdale began his work on this abridgement in about 1931, but he, too, was unable to find a publisher for it. In early 1933, at the time of the Nazi seizure of power in Germany, Dugdale apparently contacted Eher Verlag, who referred him to Kearton, now working for the firm of
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. The latter firm was in the process of buying the translation rights from Curtis Brown for a sum of £350. Dugdale offered the abridgment to Hurst & Blackett free of charge, with the stipulation that his name not be used for the British edition.Barnes and Barnes, pp. 6–7 Before the book could go to press, however, Hurst and Blackett were visited by Dr.
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, London correspondent of the ''
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'' and an active member of the "Nazi organization" in London. Although Eher Verlag was satisfied with Dugdale's abridgement, Thost insisted on taking a copy to
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for further censoring and official sanction. The abridgement was finally published in October 1933. Titled ''My Struggle'' the book was published as the second number in the Paternoster Library. In the United States,
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secured the rights to the Dugdale abridgement on 29 July 1933. The only differences between the American and British versions are that the title was translated ''My Struggle'' in the UK and ''My Battle'' in America; and that Dugdale is credited as translator in the US edition, while the British version withheld his name.Barnes and Barnes, p. 2 The original price was $3.00 (). In January 1937, Houghton Mifflin issued a second edition, the first having sold out. The price was lowered to $2.50 (). The publishers replaced the old dust jacket featuring Hitler giving his
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over a black and white background with a new one with panels of black, red, and yellow and a quotation from
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. This led to an official protest by the Nazi government, as the black-red-yellow color scheme was emblematic of the liberal
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and the
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, while the Nazis had returned to the black, white, red of the
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. Thompson's quotation was also objected to, as she had been expelled from the Reich in 1934 after writing unflattering accounts of Hitler. The affair lasted into March 1937. Houghton Mifflin agreed to change the yellow to white, but it is unknown whether the Dorothy Thompson quotation was ever removed.


Sales and royalties

The first printing was a deluxe 18-
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() book that sold out its 5,000 copies and was never reprinted. The popular edition cost 3s. 6d. () and each print run was about 1,750 copies. Below is a table of available sales figures of the Dugdale abridgment in the United Kingdom. "On hand" here means on hand at the beginning of the year. The commission was payable to Curtis Brown as literary agent, and the tax to
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. *In 1938, "slightly over 8,000 were colonial sales". The first printing of the U.S. Dugdale edition was 7,603 copies, of which 290 were given away as complimentary gifts. The royalty on the first printing in the U.S. was 15% or $3,206.45 total. Curtis Brown, literary agent, took 20%, or $641.20 total, and the
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took $384.75, leaving Eher Verlag $2,180.37 or RM 5,668. The January 1937 second printing yielded gross royalties of $1,311.38. Once the commission to Curtis Brown and corporation taxes were deducted, this left $891.74 or RM2,318.52.Barnes and Barnes, pp. 82, 148 n. 19 There were three separate printings from August 1938 to March 1939, totaling 14,000; sales totals by 31 March 1939, were 10,345. This yielded gross royalties of $3,879.38 and a new of $2,637.98 or RM6,858.74.


Translations


Murphy translation

The
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commissioned
James Vincent Murphy James Vincent Murphy (7 July 1880 – 4 July 1946) was an Irish translator, writer, lecturer and journalist, who published one of the first complete English translations of '' Mein Kampf'' in 1939. Murphy attended St Patrick's College, Maynoot ...
, who had been employed to make English translations of Hitler's speeches and other items, to begin an English translation of ''Mein Kampf'' in late 1936 and it was finished by the fall of 1937. However, the Propaganda Ministry cancelled the project and sequestered all copies of the manuscript. Murphy was beginning to be seen as "unreliable" by the government and was dismissed from his position at the Ministry. As the international situation worsened in 1938, Murphy sent his wife and children to England to live with her mother. They arrived in
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in June, while James finished up the rest of his commissioned translation work in Berlin and came to London in early September. In London, Murphy contacted his literary agent, Robert Somerville, and they found an interested publisher in
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. However, they realized that translation rights in the United Kingdom and its dependencies already belonged to Hurst and Blackett. Furthermore, they did not have a manuscript in hand. So Murphy was convinced to return to Germany to secure both a copy of the manuscript and permission to publish it, but on the date he was scheduled to fly to Berlin, he was denied an entry visa and told he would be wasting his time. Therefore, his wife, Mary, decided to make the trip, finally crossing the Channel on 6 November 1938. In Berlin she was unable to schedule any appointments with the Propaganda Ministry until 10 November. This meant she was in Berlin during the ''
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'' pogrom of 9 November. The next day she met with
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at the Propaganda Ministry, but could not get anywhere. She pursued other contacts within the Ministry but came up empty handed. Finally, without any more money and living with her ex-house keeper, she decided to visit one of James' former secretaries whom he had employed as a typist. To her great relief, she still had one of the handwritten copies of the James Murphy translation. She left Berlin on 20 November. Meanwhile, Hurst and Blackett had not yet decided whether to publish Murphy's manuscript, or any translation at all. On 21 November 1938, they received a message from Eher Verlag stating that they had not authorized Murphy to publish his edition in England, reiterating that Hurst and Blackett would be the publisher if any edition was ever released in England. Hurst and Blackett were informed that the American translations were going to go ahead on 31 December 1938 and decided to publish Murphy's translation in January 1939, despite their ambiguous legal standing (the contract with Eher Verlag did not explicitly say they could go ahead with a full translation). Unbeknownst to them, the various principals in Berlin and the German diplomats in the US were contacting each other, trying to find out what their position was with regards to the various translations. By the time the matter was finally sent to the
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in February 1939, the point had been rendered moot. Murphy's translation hit the stores in the United Kingdom on 20 March 1939. While neither Hitler nor any of the German government officials endorsed the Murphy translation, they ultimately took no action against it and, by May 1939, Eher Verlag was inquiring about possible royalties. They were told that royalties would only be paid after six months in print. However, by then war had broken out between the two countries and copyright relations severed. Because so many records were destroyed during the war, accurate sales figures on Murphy's translation are difficult to establish. Robert Sommerfeld reported that approximately 32,000 copies were sold by August 1939. There was also an illustrated edition and a serial edition in eight parts. It has been conjectured that 150,000–200,000 copies were sold in total. Murphy, for his part, did not feel he was adequately remunerated, being paid £250 up front and £150 six months later. The publishers did not feel the need to pay him any more after they received a letter from Germany prior to publication, stating he had already been paid for his efforts when he was employed by the Propaganda Ministry.


Stalag translation

The German Government used 90% of James Vincent Murphy's rough draft translation of ''Mein Kampf'' to form the body of an edition to be distributed in the UK once
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was completed. This 'Operation Sea Lion Edition' was finalized and printed in the summer of 1940. Once the invasion was called off by Adolf Hitler most copies were distributed to English speaking POW camps. Very few copies survived after the war.


Reynal and Hitchcock translation

After the
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in September 1938, the firm of
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decided that it would be imperative to have an unexpurgated edition available to the public. They found that a team of scholars at the
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were in the midst of preparing such a translation. Reynal & Hitchcock approached both this committee and Houghton Mifflin about publishing the translation under a license. However, on 8 December 1938, Stackpole Sons Inc. announced that they would be publishing their own translation of ''Mein Kampf'', arguing that Hitler, as a
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in 1925, could not have transferred his copyrights to Eher Verlag and thence to Houghton Mifflin. A conference was held at the office of Reynal & Hitchcock on 12 December 1938, with General
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and
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, executive director of Stackpole Sons, to discuss the matter. Stackpole claimed that Reynal & Hitchcock said that if Stackpole could put the work in the
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they would not be interested in publishing their own translation. Reynal & Hitchcock claimed to have stated that they had already been working on the project for months, had a translation in hand, backed by a committee of prominent scholars, and were in the process of negotiating the rights with Houghton Mifflin. In any event, Stackpole and Soskin took this to mean that they were allowed to carry on with their translation unperturbed until they were visited at their office by Curtice Hitchcock who informed him that they were going ahead with their translation, which was going to be under license from the exclusive copyright holder, Houghton Mifflin. The agreement between Reynal and Hitchcock and Houghton Mifflin was finalized on 18 February 1939 and the book was available in stores on 28 February. The contract stipulated that Reynal and Hitchcock would pay Houghton Mifflin 15% royalty on each $3 copy. After one year, Reynal and Hitchcock had the option of releasing a cheaper edition, and the agreement itself would expire after three years. Houghton Mifflin would print and bind the book at its
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in
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and was allowed to keep publishing the ''My Battle'' abridgement. Notably, Houghton Mifflin agreed to pay all the expenses for seeking a copyright
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, and subsequent legal fees would be split between the two companies. To counter Stackpole's claims that sales of its translation would go to
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, Reynal contacted the various
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committees and pledged all profits above their legitimate expenses would go to a charity for
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. However, no assets could be touched for the Reynal and Hitchcock edition, including royalties or charitable donations, until the legal issues were settled. As it happened, the legal battle did not finally end until 25 October 1941. After deducting $11,500 for legal costs, Houghton Mifflin was prepared to give $11,500 to Curtis Brown to pay to their client, Eher Verlag. Before this could be done, however, war broke out between the United States and Germany and Eher never received any royalties from this edition. Profits from the book went to a charity, Children's Crusade for Children, which helped refugees. Included in this was the initial $35,000 for administrative and promotional costs, which also went to the child refugees. As far as Hitler's royalties went, they were governed by the
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and put into an account assigned to the
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, succeeded by the
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after the war. As of 31 March 1972 the royalties on ''Mein Kampf'' paid to the US government amounted to $92,616.59. The Attorney General also paid a
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on them to the
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. Today, the profits and proceeds are given to various charities. The members of the New School committee that edited and translated the book were John Chamberlain,
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. The book was translated from the two volumes of the first German edition (1925 and 1927), with annotations appended noting any changes made in later editions, which were deemed "not as extensive as popularly supposed"."Introduction," ''Mein Kampf''. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1940; pg. viii. The translation was made with a view to readability rather than in an effort to rigidly reproduce Hitler's sometimes idiosyncratic German form. Significantly, the translation marked in the text areas that had been left out of the Dugdale abridgment. The text was heavily annotated for an American audience with biographical and historical details derived largely from German sources. As the translators deemed the book "a propagandistic essay of a violent partisan", which "often warps historical truth and sometimes ignores it completely", the tone of many of these annotations reflected a conscious attempt to provide "factual information that constitutes an extensive critique of the original". Apart from the editorial committee there was also a "sponsoring committee" of prominent individuals including
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Stackpole translation and controversy

The Stackpole edition was translated and printed in a hurry between December 1938 and February 1939. The translation job was left to
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, who requested anonymity. On the eve of the publication of both translations on 28 February 1939, Stackpole had invested $21,000 in the project and had an initial print run of 15,000 copies. Also on that date Houghton Mifflin's motion for a temporary injunction against Stackpole publishing their edition was denied by Judge
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of the
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. Coxe reasoned that "The Defendants Stackpole have raised questions of title and validity which are not free from doubt; the facts are in dispute; and the issues cannot properly be determined on affidavit." Houghton Mifflin appealed to the
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, and for a few months both translations were available for sale to the public. The case was heard on 18 May 1939, before the judges
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, his cousin Augustus N. Hand and
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. The judges went into conference on 24 May 1939, and came down with a decision granting the injunction against Stackpole on 9 June 1939. Stackpole then appealed for delay and rehearing, based on legal technicalities because only one copy of ''Mein Kampf'' had been deposited with the
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, according to Houghton Mifflin's Bill of Complaint. After this was denied later that June, Stackpole appealed to the
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. Until the Supreme Court granted
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, Stackpole was now enjoined from selling its translation of ''Mein Kampf'' and Houghton Mifflin exercised its copyright by securing injunctions against ''Mein Kampf: An Unexpurgated Digest'' and ''Mein Kampf: A New Unexpurgated Translation Condensed with Critical Comments and Explanatory Notes''.Houghton Mifflin Co. v. Noram Pub. Co., 28 F. Supp. 676 (S.D.N.Y. 1939)
/ref> The Supreme Court denied Stackpole's petition for a writ of certiorari (that is, the Court declined to hear the appeal) on 23 October 1939,
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recusing himself. Stackpole then tried further appeals, this time based on the original 1933 contract between Eher Press and Houghton Mifflin. The case again went to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in May 1940, again before Learned Hand, now accompanied by
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and
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, who ruled in July that Houghton Mifflin did need to get authorization from Eher Verlag to prove their contract valid. However, Stackpole was still enjoined from selling its translation. Eher Verlag, who had not previously been involved in the case, gave a statement to a consular official in Munich in 1941, and the case was finally settled in District Court on 4 September 1941, when Houghton Mifflin was authorized to collect damages from Stackpole. $15,250 was paid by Telegraph Press, Stackpole's
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, on 25 October 1941. In its publicity campaign for the book, Stackpole set up a committee of prominent individuals who were to handle the funds that sales of the book would provide to refugee charities. This committee included:
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, George Gordon Battle,
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, Louis Hacker, Bernson Y. Landis, Allen Heely, Milton Winternitz and Edward Smith Parons. During the short period it was in print from 28 February – 9 June 1939, Stackpole had sold 12,000 copies of its translation. No records show whether any profits were ever turned over to any charity. The translation remains a rare and valuable artifact.
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lists 133 copies worldwide. The case set a
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in US copyright law, as it established that stateless individuals have the same copyright status as other foreigners, a point not addressed in the
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or in previous litigation.


Manheim translation

The Reynal and Hitchcock translation went out of print in 1942. No reason was given, but it was speculated that it was because Houghton Mifflin did not want to share profits with Reynal and Hitchcock, as well as a desire to produce a cheaper, less bulky version, without the elaborate notes and commentary that the Reynal and Hitchcock translation had. In 1943 Houghton Mifflin published their own edition, translated by
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, which they still publish. The plates of the James Murphy translation having been destroyed by
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, Hurst & Blackett decided to issue the Manheim translation in the United Kingdom when they decided to produce a new edition in 1965. The decision to issue a new edition at all ran into opposition from the
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and the West German government. Nevertheless, Hurst & Blackett still possessed the copyright for the British and Commonwealth market. The new edition was finally published in Britain in an intentionally expensive hardcover edition in 1969. A soft-cover 1972 edition at £1.95 was also controversial, as it was seen as a betrayal of the original decision to keep the book from wide distribution. In the words of Burt A. Folkart of the ''
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'', Manheim himself later argued that his translation was a “troubled effort because Hitler’s style and mixed metaphors had to be rendered into simple English.”


Excerpts

In its efforts to counteract the influence of Dugdale's ''Mein Kampf'' abridgement, the
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drew up a
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of quotations which showed that Hitler "attacked not only the Jews but the liberal institutions that are the basis of the government of the United States and in which he glorified war and the militaristic spirit. As these were not part of the abridged edition, copies of this mimeograph were sent to book reviews across the country."Barnes and Barnes, p. 74 The first excerpts from ''Mein Kampf'' to be published in English were selections from the Dugdale abridgement in the London ''
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'' in July 1933. These were published on 24, 25, 27 and 28 July. Feeling that these extracts gave a too favorable impression of their author and his intentions,
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composed a 28-page translation of selected extracts from the first German edition which he sent to the ''Times'' and to the
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. Most of these were "semi-obscene allegations against the Jews", but others were on foreign policy and the role of education under Nazism. A series of pamphlets published by the
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included four which consisted of excerpts from ''Mein Kampf''. The first dealt with biographical information, and the other three contained quotations on race, religion and foreign policy. The latter pamphlet was originally "extracted and translated" by
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, however, the pamphlet's "guiding spirit" quickly became the Duchess of Atholl. She contacted the Foreign Office and was given the excerpts that had been prepared by Weizmann. Further inquiries from her convinced the British foreign ministry to compose an in-house translation of some of the passages. The 11-page document, ''Central Germany, 7 May 1936 – Confidential – A Translation of Some of the More Important Passages of Hitler's Mein Kampf (1925 edition)'', was circulated among the British diplomatic corps, and a private copy was also sent to the Duchess of Atholl, who may or may not have used it in what was ultimately her translation of ''Mein Kampf'' in the Friends of Europe pamphlet. In 1939, two further pamphlets containing excerpts from ''Mein Kampf'' were published. One of these, ''Mein Kampf: A New Unexpurgated Translation Condensed with Critical Comments and Explanatory Notes'', was published by a start up firm based in
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, called Noram Publishing Company, which had been created for the sole purpose of publishing parts of ''Mein Kampf'' that were not available in the Dugdale abridgement. It was formed by the reporter
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(later a Senator) and his friend Amster Spiro, a Jewish reporter with the Hearst syndicate. While dictating the translation to secretaries in
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, one of the transcribers who happened to be Jewish became alarmed at the contents and contacted the
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, who sent
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to investigate. When Epstein learned that the publication was meant to alert the American people to the danger Hitler presented, Epstein decided to collaborate with Spiro and Cranston. "Once I realized he was really on our side … I opened our files and we worked very closely together", he was later quoted as saying.Anthony O. Mille
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This pamphlet was published in a 32-page tabloid edition with notes, maps and illustrations. The cover stated that not one cent of royalties would be paid to Hitler, and the profits would supposedly go to refugees. Cranston claimed that they sold half a million copies in 10 days at 10 cents each. However, Houghton Mifflin secured an injunction against Noram from the Federal District Court and they had to pulp their remaining stock of 500,000. Finally, there is ''Mein Kampf: An Unexpurgated Digest''. Relatively little is known of this edition or its editor and translator, B.D. Shaw. He explains in his preface that he was concerned about Germany's
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in the late 1930s and wished to alert the public to the dangers Hitler presented, but which were not shown in the abridged edition of his book. Like the Cranston pamphlet it cost 10 cents and it had 31 pages.


Reception and readership

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''. Publication of the Dugdale abridgement was actively opposed by Jewish organizations in the United States. Prominent stock broker Louis Lober and others petitioned the
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to cease buying textbooks from Houghton Mifflin, in retaliation for publishing the book. Department store owner
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, industrialist Max Conn, the '' Chicago Israelite'' and lawyer
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also urged that it not be published. In the United States the book was reviewed by the ''New York Times'' twice – once on its day of publication, 11 October 1933, by John Chamberlain and two days later by former American ambassador to Germany
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. Other reviews were made in the ''
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who would go on to write the introduction for the Stackpole edition. There is no firm evidence that
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or
Neville Chamberlain Arthur Neville Chamberlain (; 18 March 18699 November 1940) was a British politician of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasemen ...
ever read the abridgement, but
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had one in his library in which was annotated: "The White House – 1933 This translation is so expurgated as to give a wholly false view of what Hitler is and says – the German original would make a different story." He had been sent a complimentary copy by the publishers. It is known that Chamberlain read the above-mentioned extracts circulated in the Foreign Office by
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. When the unabridged translation was published, Chamberlain immediately bought a copy and annotated it. The Murphy translation was also reviewed in ''The Times,'' ''The Spectator'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Observer'', ''Times Literary Supplement'' and ''Evening News''. Reviews were mostly positive about the translation itself, but felt that Murphy's introduction was too favorable to the author.Barnes and Barnes, pp. 64–5, 146 n. 17


See also

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Antisemitism in Europe Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism)—prejudice, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews— has experienced a long history of expression since the days of ancient civilizations, with most of it having originated in the Christianity, Chris ...
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Antisemitism in the United Kingdom Antisemitism in the United Kingdom signifies hatred of and discrimination against Jews in Britain. Discrimination and hostility against the community since its establishment in 1070 resulted in a series of massacres on several occasions and th ...
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Antisemitism in the United States Antisemitism in the United States has existed for centuries. In the United States, most Jewish community relations agencies draw distinctions between antisemitism, which is measured in terms of attitudes and behaviors, and the security and status ...
* Contemporary imprints of ''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' *
Jewish conspiracy theories Antisemitic tropes, canards, or myths are " sensational reports, misrepresentations, or fabrications" that are defamatory towards Judaism as a religion or defamatory towards Jews as an ethnic or religious group. Since the Middle Ages, such repo ...
* ''Mein Kampf'' in Arabic *
New antisemitism New antisemitism is the idea that a new form of antisemitism has developed in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, tending to manifest itself as anti-Zionism and criticism of the Israeli government. The concept is included in some definitions ...


References


Further reading

*Pastore, Stephen R., Andreas Stanik, and Steven M. Brewster. 2016. ''Adolf Hitler's Mein kampf: a descriptive bibliography.'' New York, New York: American Bibliographic Press, 2016.


External links


Mein Kampf sales statisticsMurphy translation at GutenbergMurphy translation at greatwar.nl (pdf, txt)Complete Dugdale abridgment at archive.org1939 Reynal and Hitchcock translation at archive.org.1940 Stalag Edition at archive.orgStackpole edition of Mein Kampf
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Some plain talk about a book by Hitler.
', a publicity pamphlet by Stackpole


Excerpt pamphlets

*Hitler, Adolf, 1889–1945; Nevinson, Henry Woodd, 1856–1941.
Hitler the man
', "Friends of Europe" publications No. 34 London : Friends of Europe, 1936 *Hitler, Adolf, 1889–1945; Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray Atholl, Duchess of, 1874–1960.
Germany's foreign policy as stated in "Mein Kampf"
', "Friends of Europe" publications No. 38 London : Friends of Europe, 1936 *Hitler, Adolf, 1889–1945; Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton 1887–1962.
The Nazi party, the state and religion
', "Friends of Europe" publications No. 41 London : Friends of Europe, 1936 *
Mein Kampf, an unexpurgated digest, translated with critical comments by B. D. Shaw.
' New York, Political Digest Press
1939 This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Third Reich *** Jews are forbidden to ...
{{Adolf Hitler, state=collapsed Mein Kampf Translations into English Hurst and Blackett books