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I agree 100% with this, but I have always wondered if this was the translation or not (I don't speak or read German). If you were a translator is this the sort

I agree 100% with this, but I have always wondered if this was the translation or not (I don't speak or read German). If you were a translator is this the sort of book you would want to make a good read?

elorant 11y ago
I’ve read the Murphy translation and according to Wikipedia it was the only translation approved by Nazi Germany. So if it was good for them I guess should be good for us. Although there have been controversial translations where the translator deliberately left-out some of the more anti-Semitic statements (Alan Cranston translation). But even that would make the book more bearable, not worsen it. I think the book is badly written because the guy was so full of anger. If you take it at face value the book is a road-map of all the monstrosities that happened once the Nazi party took the power. Every atrocity that took place, from the Holocaust to invading half of Europe and especially the severity of their attacks against Russia is more or less mentioned in the book. For me the $64.000 question is why leaders of the era weren't alarmed from the writings. Haven't they read the book? They didn't take it at face value? The book was written 15 years before the war erupted. They'd surely have time to prevent it. And then nothing happened.
- danieltillett 11y ago
  It certainly was not in the small amount of what I could stomach an easy read. I would hate to have the job of translating it. I thought the reason the book was not taken seriously was because nobody could believe this was his real plan.
- telotortium 11y ago
  > For me the $64.000 question is why leaders of the era weren't alarmed from the writings. Haven't they read the book? If you're American, do you read the campaign biographies of all the major presidential candidates?

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I agree 100% with this, but I have always wondered if this was the translation or not (I don't speak or read German). If you were a translator is this the sort

by danieltillett 11y ago

elorant 11y ago
I’ve read the Murphy translation and according to Wikipedia it was the only translation approved by Nazi Germany. So if it was good for them I guess should be good for us. Although there have been controversial translations where the translator deliberately left-out some of the more anti-Semitic statements (Alan Cranston translation). But even that would make the book more bearable, not worsen it. I think the book is badly written because the guy was so full of anger. If you take it at face value the book is a road-map of all the monstrosities that happened once the Nazi party took the power. Every atrocity that took place, from the Holocaust to invading half of Europe and especially the severity of their attacks against Russia is more or less mentioned in the book. For me the $64.000 question is why leaders of the era weren't alarmed from the writings. Haven't they read the book? They didn't take it at face value? The book was written 15 years before the war erupted. They'd surely have time to prevent it. And then nothing happened.
- danieltillett 11y ago
  It certainly was not in the small amount of what I could stomach an easy read. I would hate to have the job of translating it. I thought the reason the book was not taken seriously was because nobody could believe this was his real plan.
- telotortium 11y ago
  > For me the $64.000 question is why leaders of the era weren't alarmed from the writings. Haven't they read the book? If you're American, do you read the campaign biographies of all the major presidential candidates?