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April 1945.

The Second World War ends in Berlin.

The combat are particularly violent.

The entire world suddenly realizes the
unprecedented scale of this conflict.

More than 50 million dead.

Never before had a war been so deadly.

In this chaos, the shocked Allies
discover the concentration camps.

The shock is so great that the Americans
force the Germans to come and witness

the horror for themselves.

The Holocaust, the millions dead in
combat.

Some Germans swear they knew nothing
about this disaster.

Incidentally, at the Nuremberg trial,
when confronted with the horror of the

facts, that is exactly what some Nazis
say, like Hermann Göring, shown here on

the left. However, one man states loudly
and clearly that this was not the case.

a British man, Elwyn Jones, deputy
public prosecutor.

According to him, this appalling
nightmare was almost scripted. There is

secret of their intentions generally.

For all to read, there was Mein Kampf,
the product of the warped reign of

the Führer.

Mein Kampf, literally, my struggle.

The Nazi Bible, written by Adolf Hitler,
an inflammatory book, which directly

led to these atrocities, as Elwyn Jones
claims.

From Mein Kampf, the road leads directly
to the furnaces of Auschwitz and the

guest chambers of Majdanek.

And at the time, certain Germans thought
exactly the same thing.

What I was thinking history proved, Mein
Kampf helped to prepare one of the

biggest crimes ever committed on a
worldwide scale.

The content is earth -shattering,
because it's his

actual plan.

So were the Holocaust and the war
written in Mein Kampf?

What exactly does the book recount?

More than a century after its initial
publication, The book continues to

opinions.

This book should no longer exist. It's a
recital of hatred, a crazy path that

leads to loss, all written by a little
man who was entirely convinced by what

he's written.

It's really just an anti -Semitic
pamphlet of a violence that is hard to

If we really want to know Hitler, we
can't pass by this book.

Here is the secret story behind one of
the most sold political books in the

world. 12 .5 million copies were
published before 1944.

A wretched book from a man who
incarnated absolute evil. A book that

forbidden in many countries for 70
years.

A book with an incredible story.

It all begins in November 1918.

At the end of the First World War, the
German soldiers return home.

And among these millions of men, there
is one who still won't accept this

defeat. Adolf Hitler.

At the time, he is just a simple
corporal who is about to be demobilized.

At the end of the First World War, Adolf
Hitler is completely unknown.

Born in 1889, he's someone at 30 who has
very few prospects for the future.

The risk for Hitler, and obviously what
he feels, is

going back to the same life he had
before the war.

That's to say, to cut to the chase, the
life of a loser.

Hitler has no career, no money, no
family, so he sticks to all he has left,

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And it's there that one man notices him,

Captain Carl Meyer.

He spots talents that can be used for
two things.

On one hand, the intelligence services
of the army, and on the other, the

propaganda services, including possible
speakers.

Karl Mayer takes on Hitler as a spy.

His mission?

Infiltrate the DAP, the German Workers'
Party, affiliated with the extreme

right.

And there, Hitler feels particularly
comfortable.

He does what he's asked, but much more
because at a certain point, he takes to

the floor.

and that is a key moment, because he
discovers something he wasn't aware of,

talent as a speaker.

And it's in Munich, in braveries like
this one, that Hitler progressively

becomes leader of the NSDAP party.

Several times a week, he launches into
two -hour -long monologues.

At the start, he only seduces a handful
of militants, but ends up captivating

thousands of people.

At the start of the 20s, Hitler is a
skilled agitator in bars.

But he has no intention of writing.

One event will change that.

What happened was Mussolini's example of
marching on Rome.

which gave Hitler ideas.

So in November 1923, Hitler imitates
Mussolini.

He's 34 and at the head of a rising
political party.

And at his side is one of the heroes of
the First World War, General Ludendorff.

In Munich, the two men decide that the
time has come to take power by force.

Hitler and his troops dramatically
interrupt a meeting of the Bavarian

government.

Hitler arrives in the middle of this
meeting.

Revolver shots are fired at the ceiling.

There's a slightly farcical side to the
whole thing.

Because he arrives, fires a pistol,
makes a speech.

At the time, Charlie Chaplin's
impression of him is not yet known, but

imagine it's a bit like that.

And he threatens those who don't want to
follow him.

But the operation fails.

Behind their barricades, in the street,
the members of the putsch are crushed by

the army.

16 of them are killed.

Hitler is safe and sound, but he is
arrested and thrown in prison.

The Landsberg Fort, 60 kilometers from
Munich.

When he arrives there, Hitler is at his
lowest point.

We know that Hitler weighed 72 kilograms
when he arrived and would quickly lose

weight. He became depressed and started
a hunger strike.

He even apparently thought about suicide
after the failure of the push.

It was a pitiful failure, and not only
did he not have the audience he wanted

Bavaria, but he became the laughingstock
of all the newspapers.

Hitler's story could have stopped there.

However, at the back of cell 7, where it
was least expected, he finds a new

lease of life.

He knows he risks the death penalty, so
for the first time in his life, he

starts to write.

60 pages.

He prepares his defense for his imminent
trial.

And the seed of the idea was sown to
write about his experiences and his

enemies. So in 1923, it was about
settling the score with his enemies.

Three months later, journalists are
jostling at the start of the trial.

This historic image shows the
conspirators of the putsch.

Accused of high treason, they all plead
not guilty.

All except one, who stands up to the
judge, Adolf Hitler.

And there, he uses the trial as a

platform.

Hitler was charismatic, and those around
him felt it.

That's what was fatal in his character,
that he could influence people

personally.

Listeners hung on his every word.

Everything that he dreamt up, people
believed.

Finally, Ludendorff is acquitted. The
others receive minimal sentences.

As for Hitler, he is also a winner in
this trial.

He risked the death penalty.

Instead, he is sentenced to five years
in prison, and only serves nine months,

and in exceptional conditions.

In his cell, he has access to
newspapers, drinks his tea from China

an amazing view of the countryside.

Even better, dressed in his normal
clothes, he talks to his fellow

Among them he finds friends and former
putsch comrades like Rudolf Hess, who

would become one of the key figures of
the Third Reich.

They could go into the common room when
they liked during the day.

They were free in their movements and to
talk to each other.

It was a bit...

like a flat share for men.

In this four -star prison, Hitler is
treated like a star.

Since his trial, he's become a kind of
celebrity.

Everybody wants to see him or give him
gifts.

He receives biscuits, flowers, letters
of encouragement from fans like this

starting with...

My beloved Führer.

The leading figures of Bavaria also
rushed to talk to him.

The visitor's book is full to bursting,
just like these cards detailing each

interview to the last minute.

And among the 330 visitors, there are
some celebrities.

General Ludendorff and also Wagner's
granddaughter.

Many encourage him to continue writing,
and notably Helena Beckstein.

The heiress of the piano brand gives him
a crucial present, a brand -new

Remington.

She often visited him during this
period, and so it's thought it must have

a gift from her, as these machines were
very expensive at that time, and having

such a device was not self -evident.

Hitler has time.

His party needs rebuilding, and he needs
money to pay his lawyers, and so he

thinks that writing a book could be a
good idea.

From there, a myth is born.

Hitzler, the orator, wouldn't have
written anything himself.

He would simply have dictated his text
to Emil Maurice and Rudolf Hess.

However, nowadays, historians think that
is not the case.

The Führer did indeed type his text in
prison.

The first volume at Landsberg he wrote
alone.

In any case, Rudolf Hess couldn't type
very well. He learned to use it in

prison. The others didn't really help
him at that level, so he worked alone on

the typewriter.

This idea that Hitler dictated his work
is a myth. It's false.

Hitler rewrites his own story, giving
himself a hero's role.

But not only that.

He takes advantage of his incarceration
to read dozens of books, like the essay

on the differences between human races
by the French writer Gobineau,

or ones with charming

titles such as Rattenhygiene, Racial
Hygiene.

Today, it may seem revolting, but at the
time, these pseudoscientific theories

were successful.

Newspapers talk about races with no
embarrassment.

Hitler uses this as a source of
inspiration.

He starts collecting them. He puts them
all together in a kind of hard

-to -swallow soup.

He manages to give a terrible
nightmarish coherence to these racial

ideas.

And so the months go on.

Hitler perfects his terrifying theory,
that of the racial struggle.

At the top of his imaginary pyramid are
the Aryans, in other words, the Germans,

in a permanent battle to protect the
purity of their race.

Their biggest enemy, the Jews, who were
considered a scourge.

He is and remains a complete parasite, a
scrounger, like a harmful bacteria

always spreading further.

His presence produces the effect of a
parasitic plant.

Wherever he settles, the people who
welcome him will be wiped out

It's one of the words that appears most
often in Mein Kampf.

It appears 373 times, an average once
every two pages.

An obsession for Hitler.

He believes that they are responsible
for all of Germany's failures, including

their defeat in 1918.

He tries to convince the Germans that
the Jews are behind an international

conspiracy to destroy Germany and which
is the cause of all their problems.

He goes through the entire range of anti
-Semitic discourse and brings it to its

maximum intensity.

At the end of 1924, Hitler leaves prison
with hundreds of pages under his arm.

And he doesn't have any difficulty
publishing his text, which is extremely

violent towards Jews.

Because of his notoriety, publishers are
lining up.

The first books about him start to be
released.

Newspapers are talking about him.

He was a star in the media at the time.
Well, maybe not a star, but someone very

well known outside of Bavaria and even
outside of Germany.

And so the possibility of publishing his
first book was very attractive.

Hitler has the choice, so he opts for
the publisher who offers him the most

money, Max Amann.

He is also a friend, his former sergeant
during the 1418 war.

He runs a small publishing house and
shares the same extremist ideas.

But before the book is released, they
have to find the right title, which is

easy.

The first title of Mein Kampf was four
and a half years of struggle against

lies, cowardice and weakness.

The title says a lot, but it's not very
catchy.

The publisher insists on a shorter
title, more

compact, synthetic and something that
could be catchy.

In truth, we don't know exactly who
chose the final title.

One thing is sure, it will be Mein
Kampf, My Struggle.

And for its release, it's highly
advertised in the extreme right press.

The best Christmas present, this
newspaper suggests, in December 1925.

But when it arrives in bookshops,
surprise, it's not a commercial success.

A few thousand copies appeal to Nazi
supporters, but the work does not break

through as much as was predicted.

Worse still, some newspapers annihilate
him.

Hitler is a political agitator who no
longer understands the world.

His ideas come from a twisted mind.

The truth is that Mein Kampf is a book
that is mostly unreadable.

For his contemporaries, it's mostly a
hodgepodge of ideas, a kind of volcanic

explosion that isn't completely under
control.

In truth, the public expected
sensational revelations about the putsch

Hitler would reveal inside a secret.

The expectation was too much.

People expected to see a political bomb
explode, and that was in no way what was

in Mein Kampf.

But Hitler insisted.

In 1928, he even writes another work,
which is totally unknown, nicknamed The

Secret Book, another very aggressive
work.

However, this second book is never
printed in his lifetime.

The publisher refuses, given the poor
sales of Mein Kampf.

So, Mein Kampf could have stayed a small
unknown work, except fate is about to

take a dramatic turn.

It's 1930, and the economic crisis in
America hits a still -weak Germany hard.

In the space of four years, the country
has over 4 million more unemployed.

At the elections, Germans avoid the
classic parties and vote for the

Hitler's party goes from 3 to 18%.

Straight away, sales of Mein Kampf go
through the roof.

54 ,000 copies were sold just in 1930.

We want to know what Hitler thinks, what
he wants, this man who has become part

of the German political system.

And in his quest for power, this book
improves the Fuhrer's image.

It establishes Hitler's credibility as
no longer just a political agitator,

a speaker but a writer.

It's something that matters in Germany.
Germany is still a country that respects

its doctors and professors.

1933,

Hitler amazes the whole world.

when he arrives in power, almost by
surprise.

He is appointed chancellor, though he
only won 37 % of the votes.

To realize his dreams of greatness and
the conquests he wrote about in Mein

Kampf, he would need a united Germany.

So, with the help of Goebbels, he uses
one of the theories contained in his

book, propaganda.

All effective propaganda must restrict
itself to a few key points and enforce

them with stereotypical formulas as long
as required until the last of the

audience is able to understand the idea.

And one of the tools of this mass
propaganda, of course, is Mein Kampf.

Very soon, the state recommends that all
government employees buy it.

From 1936, it is given to all newlyweds.

And then the Führer charmed the
manufacturing industry.

Thanks to rearmament, their orders
increase eightfold.

Businesses like Krupp hand it out to
everyone.

It was given as presents for birthdays
and celebrations.

or it was given out like a bonus for
good performances.

And to boost sales, the publisher offers
the book in all formats.

Braille editions for the blind.

Deluxe versions with a marble cover and
gold -plated pages.

A limited edition for high -ranking Nazi
dignitaries.

And the ultimate in propaganda, an
enormous version in Bible format.

It was a symbol of domination for the
National Socialists. It was considered

like the Bible of Nazism. And even more
important than the book itself was its

symbolic function that everyone said, we
know Mein Kampf, it's the Führersbuch.

By force, the book becomes a bestseller.

and so insures Hitler's fortune.

Through royalties, he earns the
equivalent of around 10 million euros.

He can buy himself his famous base, the
Berghof, and satisfy his taste for

luxurious Mercedes cars.

In total, 12 .5 million copies were
printed in Germany until

1944.

Hitler earned around one Reichsmark,
which means through this book he earned

least 12 million Reichsmarks.

But behind the massive distribution, was
Mein Kampf really read?

This isn't certain. With its 700 pages
and laborious text, the work certainly

had enough to put people off.

In 1940, Karl Heinz Riener is enrolled
in the Wehrmacht as a nurse.

In his family, his father had received a
copy from his company, but was not

pleased with the gift.

My father put the book on a shelf.

and it stayed there until 1945.

My father looked inside it and said it
was a declaration of war, pure and

simple, and added he would never read
this nonsense.

In fact, at the time, like many other
Germans, Karl and his father

underestimated Hitler.

We didn't take Hitler seriously.

We didn't think a man who wrote
something like that could stay in power.

And we made jokes about him.

We laughed at him.

In the end, it's true.

Perhaps we could have taken him
seriously.

In other families, conversely, the book
crystallized all their fears.

In the suburbs of East Berlin, on the
banks of the Spree, Lutz Rakow remembers

perfectly the first time he heard talk
of Mein Kampf.

In 1938, Lutz was only six years old.

His father, Otto, was an architect.

One evening, he got all his friends
together at their house to talk about

Hitler's book.

I was sat under the table instead of
being in bed because I was curious to

what they were saying.

I heard my father keep repeating, but
read this book.

And of course, they weren't talking
about the Bible or anything else.

but about Mein Kampf.

Lutz doesn't know if his father's
friends followed his advice, but one

sure, his father was one of the few
Germans to understand the future

catastrophes that this Nazi book
forewarned.

He was of the opinion that all the
answers to what the Nazis were going to

were in Mein Kampf.

At that time, I remember Hitler talked
about freedom, freedom, freedom.

And in reality, he was preparing for a
war with all his force.

And of course, this war that was in
preparation had to stay completely

And that is exactly what started to
worry Hitler.

He is afraid that his plans will be
revealed in his books.

Indeed, some of the passages do announce
future conquests.

The aim of our external politics, ensure
the German people that they will get

the territories they should.

Territory will justify the sacrifice of
our own children.

And in his hunger for this needed space,
Hitler targets one country in

particular, France.

The mortal enemy, the merciless enemy of
the German people, is and remains

France.

Mein Kampf predicts, or in any case,
legitimizes the idea of a revenge

against France, a military revenge, and
there are many very violent pages

against France, which is seen as a
symbol of racial mixing, a country of

Negroes, it's the word used by Hitler,
and a country of Jews.

If the French took these threats
seriously, they could prevent rearmament

Germany. So Hitler adopts a very daring
strategy.

November 1933.

In Berlin, the Führer is visited by a
French journalist, Fernand de Brunon, a

supporter of becoming closer to Germany.

He speaks German and, without a doubt,
has already read the passages in Mein

Kampf. And Hitler gives him a scoop.

The first French interview with the new
chancellor.

And when de Brunon asks the Führer about
his anti -France statements in his

book, Hitler uses a ruse as old as time.
An outright lie.

Hitler explained that he only wants
peace.

He's been through war, and Europe has
already had too many deaths.

Rinon has to ask him the question, as
Mein Kampf is well known, saying that

not the opinion you have in Mein Kampf.

It's not about peace.

It's about war.

And Hitler replies to him, I've changed,
as would a politician that is faced

with a text from his youth.

I've changed.

I wrote this text in prison, in the fury
of that time.

And today I'm chancellor.

The interview is on the front page of
the newspaper Le Matin, one of the

daily newspapers at the time, with a
reassuring declaration from the Führer.

War will settle nothing. It will only
worsen the state of the world.

But in France, one man doesn't believe a
word and will do everything to fight

Hitler's book.

This man is Fernand Solow, a publisher
who had just started to break through in

Paris in the 30s.

Fernand Solow is the small publisher who
publishes essays relating to political

news.

He publishes many political texts and
literature.

He's the fourth or fifth biggest
publisher of foreign novels.

Fernand Solow, whose politics are right
-wing, at the time admires Mussolini.

But Hitler and his work worry him a lot.

In any case, this is how Francois
-Savier Solot, one of the publisher's

remembers it.

30 or 40 % of the text is anti -French.

It's really an attack on the country.

He hadn't fought in 1914, he was too
young, but he met my mother, who was

anti -German, because my maternal
grandfather was killed very early on in

1914 war.

Forlò wanted to print Hitler's book to
warn the French people and also for the

commercial gain.

The problem was that it would
potentially be expensive.

There were 700 pages to translate.

And above all, Max Amann and Hitler
refused any translation into French.

Mein Kampf is packed full of anti
-French passages.

It is unthinkable that an uncensored
version of the text would be released in

French.

So Fernand Solow finds himself at an
impasse.

That is, until the day he is called to
the ministry for former soldiers.

There he is welcomed with complete
discretion.

A secret operation is underway.

Sorlo is put into contact with a Jewish
former soldier whose name is Maurice

Vanikoff and who will introduce it into
the ministry of former soldiers.

And it's through this ministry that a
team, unofficially of course, is put

together.

And so Solol begins a race against the
clock. He wants to translate Mein Kampf

into French as quickly as possible.

And to do this, the ministry supplies
seven experienced translators.

Even better, the Liga, the League
Against Antisemitism, buys 5 ,000

meaning 50 ,000 francs for Solol.

Which is absolutely crucial since, as
you can see, in an operation like this

one, which has to be carried out
quickly, money needs to be raised

that was done.

The book is released in February 1934
with a slogan aiming to shock.

Everyone in France must read this book.

Same turn of phrase on this poster. It
plays on the fear that Mein Kampf

inspires and predicts.

A second world war is coming.

Sorlo has pulled off a great book
launch, but things soon take a different

Hitler is furious.

This small French publisher is ruining
his propaganda.

Obviously, Hitler doesn't want the
French to have access to his text

propaganda and his ad hoc speeches.

At that time, Hitler is on a pseudo
-pacifistic offensive where he's

to anybody who'll listen that he's a
pacifist.

From that perspective, Mein Kampf is a
thorn in his side.

So the Chancellor takes Thoreau to
court.

The case takes place in Paris at the
Commercial Court.

5th June 1934.

The German and French lawyers face each
other.

The right to alert the public against
copyright.

Solow against the most powerful man in
Germany.

The sentence is given 13 days later and
may seem shocking.

The French courts rule in favour of the
dictator.

It is forbidden to print or sell Mein
Kampf with a penalty of 100 francs per

infraction.

Existing books have to be destroyed.

But this doesn't stop Solow.

He gets around the law with abridged
versions, in other words, pirated

that are edited without the author's
consent.

As a bonus, he also manages to see off
his stock with the collusion of the

police.

He sold a considerable number of books
during this period even after the court

ruling because when the Germans
complained that the books were still on

demanded that the copies were seized
from the publisher

The local police called my father to
say, we are coming to see if you are

selling the book and seize any copies
you have.

And so we put all the books into a van.
The police came and said there were no

more copies. And that evening, the van
came back and the next day we carried

However, Thoreau did fail in one aspect.

The book didn't alarm any of the French
elite.

Even the 4 ,000 copies distributed by
the leaker didn't have any effect.

The decision makers were blinded by
Hitler's pacifistic talk.

They considered the book too violent to
be real.

It's unthinkable to follow the politics
suggested in Mein

Kampf. So it is thought that Hitler has
cooled his opinions.

There is a refusal to see the violence
in Mein Kampf,

but also a refusal to understand that
German political culture was such that

Hitler would do what he said.

Meanwhile, the ideas in the book
progressively penetrate people's minds

streets and over the radio waves.

Goebbels, propaganda minister, reads
extracts from Mein Kampf.

The Reich even develop a low -price
radio so they could be present in every

home. And at school, some teachers sing
the praises of the Führer's cult.

The children sing it. They are ready to
live and die for Hitler, their saviour,

the most noble person in Germany.

In fact...

Hitler is putting into practice what is
written in his book, and so his hatred

of Jews becomes part of the public
consciousness.

This sign says, Germans, your enemy is
the Jew.

The papers are full of shocking
caricatures showing Jews with monstrous

controlling the world.

And as this terrible message is hammered
home, some people end up believing it.

I know that one day my brother came home
from school crying, and my mother asked

why he was sad.

My brother said that Mr.

Kornheim, who was Jewish, had given him
sweets.

And the other children said to my
brother, whoever eats food from the Jews

die.

I heard this story and thought, I don't
have any sweets, so I'm not in danger.

In an insidious and perverse way, anti
-Semitism establishes itself in Germany.

But could the Holocaust have been
foreseen from Mein Kampf?

For once, historians agree unanimously.

Of course, Mein Kampf doesn't talk about
the gas chambers, but the book

theorizes at length about the combat to
the death that the Germans must lead and

that there can only be one winner
between the racially pure German people

the Jews.

The Germans... must have been more or
less aware of what Hitler had planned,

with or without Mein Kampf.

Hitler never left any doubt that he
wanted to modify the Treaty of

and take revenge on France, and in the
mind of anybody with any sense that can

only mean war. But how the war would be
led, against who and what future he held

for the countries in the East, that is
not written in Mein Kampf.

Right up until the eve of the war,
Europeans held on to the idea that peace

the Fuhrer was possible.

October 1938,

Hitler announces that he is going to
annex Czechoslovakia.

This is a violation of the borders that
had been defined in 1918.

Europe is on the brink of war.

Everything plays out here in Munich.

The British Prime Minister, Neville
Chamberlain, and the French Defence

Minister, Edouard Dalidier, are urgently
rushed there.

In the end, they prefer to abandon their
Czech ally in exchange for a promise of

peace from Hitler.

They sign the famous Munich Agreement.

On their return, the French and British
ministers are welcomed as heroes.

I had another talk with the German
Chancellor, Herr Hitler.

And here is the paper which bears his
name upon it as well as mine.

We regard the agreement signed last
night and the Anglo -German naval

as symbolic of the desire of our two
peoples never to go to war with one

again.

Peace seems to be preserved.

Don't mind Hitler, take your holiday,
advises the press.

Which politics want to be in favour of
declaring war?

What politician wants to say, I want to
go to war?

The majority of European companies are
pacifists. Never again do we want war.

Never again the First World War. Never
again the slaughter.

And even after the Munich crisis, very
few of the elite foresee war written in

Mein Kampf.

Churchill and the young Colonel de
Gaulle saw it very early on.

They said they were very worried. But at
the time, they weren't in positions of

power.

The goal is not in power.

In England, Churchill has become almost
an outsider.

In 1939, the pacifistic talk which has
been so carefully maintained collapses

brutally. Germany attacks Poland and
invades a large part of Europe.

The riotous troops march through Paris.

Hitler celebrates.

The whole world trembles at the thought
of falling under the control of the

Nazis. That is when the elite change
their mind about Mein Kampf.

The harmfulness of Mein Kampf is
discovered when Hitler starts to apply

politics that he had written about.

So there's a discovery of what existed
already, but that people didn't see or

didn't want to see.

That's when the fate of the book
suddenly changes.

Before 1939, the Allies hadn't seen its
danger, but now they're going to use it

to create effective counter -propaganda.

That's what happens in the United
States.

There, Americans are protesting against
the war.

The average man is hardly thrilled with
the idea of going to save Europe.

It's another war, not for me. This time
America should keep out, and I know I

will. In the event of war in Europe, I
think we should stay out of it entirely.

By all means, no.

Yes, fight!

No! No!

No!

So the authorities broadcast clips like
these.

The scene takes place in a church at
Mass.

To mobilize its troops, the film is
aimed at the minorities attacked in the

book. Mein Kampf becomes a weapon of
persuasion.

I'm not going to read all of this, but
there are one or two things in this book

that will interest you.

I quote, From time to time, the
illustrated papers show how a Negro has

a lawyer.

a teacher, perhaps even a minister.

It never dawns on the degenerate middle
-class America that this is truly a sin

against all reason, that it is criminal
madness to train a born half -ape until

one believes one has made a lawyer of
him.

This book was written 20 years ago.

The plan which it foreshadowed has
become a reality.

At the same time, on the other side of
the Atlantic, the propaganda around the

book intensifies.

War is also a battle of ideas.

And to win it, the Reich wants to impose
its Nazi doctrine in schools.

But this time, it takes place in
conquered territories.

It's a page of history that not much is
known about.

Part of France, Alsace and Mosul finds
itself Nazified.

From 1940, these two regions become
German again, and the teaching there is

turned upside down.

That's what we discovered at the
regional archives in Alsace.

through the testimony of Marguerite
Förster, an Alsatian teacher who kept an

intimate diary.

From the summer of 1940, distressed, she
writes, What will happen to my

colleagues and me?

I hate the German methods to the bottom
of my heart.

I'm horrified at the thought of teaching
a member of the Hitler Youth, teaching

them to think Deutschland über alles,
Germany above everything.

We have to teach them all of France's
faults, teach them perhaps to hate it as

an enemy.

All of my being is against this state of
things. My God, thy will be done.

There was no use Marguerite protesting.

Like all of her colleagues in Arles
-Vers -Morzel, she had to follow the

of the Reich.

She goes to Germany to undergo an
indoctrination.

There she has to learn the program
called Rassenkunde, the science of the

Reading Mein Kampf is compulsory.

And in her book, Marguerite writes in
German what the Nazis dictate on the

subject of music.

The Jew has no creative activity.

He takes the creativity of others.

Jewish music is going to take Europe
back into the night.

For her students, she now has to use
this pro -Nazi book.

Inside, Hitler is featured as an author
to study.

In their books, under the guidance of
their teachers, pupils aged 8 to 10 draw

Nazi symbols.

The teacher gave the Nazi salute when he
arrived. All the lessons started with

an update from the front, where the
German army were, the advances, the

retreats. It's clear that some of the
teachers, trained in Germany, didn't put

this program into practice.

That a minority did is possible.

And we mustn't forget that there were
some German teachers sent to Alsace and

Moselle, some of whom applied the
program zealously.

From 1944, the German army saw a string
of defeats. As time went on, the

flagship book of the regime became an
inconvenience.

To avoid looking like Nazis, Germans
tried to get rid of it.

The greatest number of copies I ever saw
was on the 23rd of April, 1945.

We had some land next to the Spree, and
I saw a lot of copies floating in the

water.

It was poison.

It had to be disposed of.

And neighbors threw everything that was
poisonous into a hole.

arms and books that had become
embarrassing.

And in all of this was Mein Kampf.

They stood out with their red covers.

We covered all of that with earth and
prayed to our guardian angels that they

would never be discovered.

Of course, with the advance of the Red
Army, People were afraid of being

or identified as people owning this
book. They were scared the Russians

turn against them.

That's why they got rid of it.

From then on, in a defeated Germany, all
Nazi symbols had to be removed.

The Allies demand that the machines used
to print Mein Kampf have to be

destroyed.

Any republishing of the book is strictly
forbidden in Germany. At that moment,

nobody imagined that this bestseller
would become a longseller.

Its author is dead. His work is filled
with hate. His politics ended in an

appalling massacre.

However, his forbidden work continues to
be published.

In France, for example, after the war,
Solow printed Mein Kampf and continues

do so, on average 2 ,000 copies per
year, and it's not the only one.

My Struggle in England, Amina Luta in
Brazil,

Wodi Sengdo in China, the book is
published worldwide, and has been since

1930s. It's impossible to ban its
publication, especially in the age of

Internet. And so millions of copies have
been sold since 1945.

Mein Kampf continues to be read.

Nazism, the Third Reich, Hitler
fascinate.

There is also the fascination for what
is forbidden.

If it's forbidden, it must be
interesting, so we seek it out.

In Arab countries fighting against
Israel, the book seduces anti -Semites.

Even more surprisingly, Kabgam, the
Turkish version, topped the bestseller

in 2005.

Nearly 100 ,000 copies sold in two
months when nationalists arrived in

It is also surprisingly successful in
India, where Hitler is sometimes quoted

management schools as a model of
success.

A country like India, where for years,
decades, Mein Kampf has been successful,

Mein Kampf is the symbol of a
warmongering ultra -nationalism that

imposes itself on its neighbors.

Since the 1st of January 2016, the book
has begun a new chapter in its story.

In accordance with copyright law, the
work becomes part of the public domain.

In theory, nothing now stops it being
republished.

But in Germany, the book is still
considered dangerous.

As such, only critical editions like
this one are authorized.

The fuller's text is surrounded by 3
,500 comments written by historians.

Of course, we wanted to make a critical
edition, one based on the essentials.

It was about contradicting Hitler,
correcting him.

In France, the publisher Fayard took the
same approach.

A scientific council are preparing a
version that is also commented in order

neutralize the hate and lies in the
original text.