Video: 'Mein Kampf: An Autopsy Of The Nazi Mind'

(Saturday, July 18, 1925) — The first volume of Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”), an autobiographical manifesto by National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany was published today.

In the book, Hitler blamed Germany’s chief woes on the parliament of the Weimar Republic, the Jews, and Social Democrats, as well as Marxists, though he believed that Marxists, Social Democrats, and the parliament were all working for Jewish interests.

He announced that he wanted to destroy the parliamentary system completely, believing it to be corrupt in principle, as those who reach power are inherent opportunists.