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Originally Posted by GA Russell
I thought that Mein Kampf was a best seller in Germany, and helped propel Hitler to power. Is that not correct?
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As always, there ist no simple answer to this.
If one asks family members old enough to remember those times, one will hear that in most towns any newly wed couple got one copy as a gift at the registrars office. (And no, "no one read it." Which is, of course, not true.)
But that was only
after the Nazi-Party succeded in local and national elections and finally gained power.
Prior to that there apparently was substancial demand for the book and the profit from the piece helped fund the Nazi-Party directly.
There are studies about the history of this pamphlet by historians, abstracts (in german) of which one can find
here or
here.