• Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    Yes, it was known to be impenetrable in the German Reich, but Germans thought it looked nice on their shelves and would occasionally read a two-sentence passage from it. Giggling optional.

    Hitler wrote it by pacing up and down in his prison cell ranting while Goebbels took notes (or recorded it, but I don’t remember if he had a tape recorder, and didn’t have a steganographer AFAIK. So yeah it smacks of radicalized old man ramblings much like Trump’s rally speeches.

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      This is incorrect. Hitler didn’t even meet Goebbels before 1925, people assumed he dictated to Rudolf Heß. It could also be that he wrote it himself on a typewriter.