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I find it interesting that it took eBooks to bring this piece of history back into the light and yes: 99 cents seems about right.

I first tried to read Mein Kampf in high school as part of a project to study World War II. That war baffled me: it seemed obvious it was going to be a rerun of The Great War, which all but destroyed every participating nation, except this time with bigger guns.

What disturbs me most about Mein Kampf is the realization that what Hitler is doing is militarized every national problem, from unemployment and lack of natural resources inside Germany, to crime and social change, Hitler thinks war is always the answer.

I agree that people should learn from the past if only because it’s less costly than stumbling into unnecessary errors, but I’ve lived to see my own country lurch from a war on poverty, to a war on crime, to a war on drugs, to a war on illiteracy, to a war on terrorism. Perhaps through reading we have a chance to do better than Hitler did, so maybe this renewed interest in his mistakes isn’t such a bad thing.