Reading Mein Kampf a couple of specific things surprised me, one of the major things being the number of times Hitler lied throughout the book. I never had thought he would have been truthful but just lies about history and his upbringing that were proven later and put in the footnotes was not what I had expected. The reference to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was also not something I expected, but that passage was definitely interesting to me, he brought up the situation of Esperanto as a language and referenced the head of the snake from the protocols several times.
Things that remind me of today goes back to the same passage where he mentions Esperanto and while what he says in the book was not a main point or a popular one at that, it echos a certain political argument of today about immigration and the issue of the US not having an official language and immigrants coming to the US and not speaking english. “as long as the jew has not become the master of others he speaks their language”
Major themes that are presented through almost every chapter in his book are ones of Social Darwinism, stating the how the Aryan race is deserving of survival while the jewish are lucky to get what they have because they are just naturally inferior. National-Socialism is brought up a lot when Hitler refers to the german political structure as well as the political parties. He words it as socialism for us and only us, which feeds in to the further separation of the jewish people in the community.
