There, in the Alps, he would continue writing his racist rancor, bombastic ideas, and histrionic plans for the world. Snug in a cottage rented from his friends, the Büchers, owners of the Platterhof Hotel (formerly Pension Moritz), Hitler composed volume two of Mein Kampf. This time, Hitler dictated his words to a secretary. As usual, Hitler was obsessing over Germany’s defeat in World War I, the beginning of history in the Hitlerian bubble. Blaming Jewish back-stabbers and alleged profiteers for Germany’s loss, he continued his habit of vitriolic and venomous comments about Jews. If twelve or fifteen thousand Jewish “scoundrels” had been “taken out at the right time,” he claimed, “a million worthwhile, proper German lives would have been saved.”2 These are the only lines in Mein Kampf suggesting that Hitler may have had visions of exterminating Jews by modern methods. Most historians, however, do not believe Hitler already planned massive death camps with gas chambers.
What do You think about 1924: The Year That Made Hitler?
