Hitlers Second Book or Social Welfare

Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf

Author: Adolph Hitler

The first complete and annotated edition of the book that Adolf Hitler dictated just before his rise to power but never wanted to publish. Contains startling and revealing ideas that drove him once in power but that he didn't want made known.

Dr. Gerhard L. Weinberg was working in the repository of captured German records in Alexandria, Virginia, when in 1958 he found a manuscript that had been dictated, by Adolf Hitler. Since publishing Mein Kampf in 1925 and 1926, Hitler had not dealt with foreign policy issues to any extent. In 1928 he decided to write a new book to address a number of questions tied to events that were taking place at the time especially the elections to the Reichstag where the Nazi party had a mere 12 seats out of 410. However the main idea behind the new book was to provide answers to a number of foreign policy issues. It is here that the idea of an alliance between Germany and Italy is clearly enunciated and Mussolini is praised. Of course, the entire text is riddled with the familiar racial language that was Hitler's particular trademark, as well as his form of extreme Social Darwinism and insistence of the need for "living space" and the need to "Germanize" the new space in the East, which meant in any case annihilating the Jews and others located there.

The new contribution offered here was the much broader, "open" vision Hitler gave of his foreign policy views and the fact that all of them were oriented toward war and aggression. He only conceived foreign policy and relations with other countries in those terms and stated for example that his goal was not to revise the Treat of Versailles at all since he wanted to acquire much more space for Germany than the borders of 1914!

Finally the most startling vision is the terrifying future Hitler offered, one of continuous warfare, with new wars being carried out in a kind of chain-reaction until the final inevitable clash with the United States. These statements, wrapped in the typical rhetoric and with many references to people and events that belong to those times, and masterfully explained by Dr. Weinberg's annotations, makes this one of the essential documents, unavailable until now, for a deeper understanding of the Nazi period and his long list of horrors.

The New Republic - Omer Bartov

Must we read another ranting book by Hitler? This book is certainly as close to the heart of darkness as a book can be. But it should have been read in its time, and it should be read now.... This is a book that should be read... by contemporary journalists, political observers, and all concerned people who have the stomach to recognize evil when they confront it.

Publishers Weekly

In 1958, while directing the microfilming and organization of a trove of archives that the U.S. forces had taken from the Nazis at the end of WWII, historian Weinberg (A World at Arms) discovered the manuscript of a second book that Hitler had written but never published. The manuscript was published in German in 1961, accompanied by Weinberg's annotations, but this is the first authoritative English version (a pirated and poor translation appeared in the 1960s). The text bears all of Hitler's hallmarks: rambling thoughts, half-baked ideas, pedantic writing-along with a terrifying, sustained belief in war and violence as the means to ensure that Germans would flourish. Compared to Mein Kampf, there are fewer pages devoted to Jews. Nonetheless, what comes across most strongly is Hitler's abiding commitment to the principle of race and his identification of Jews as the enemy that threatened to undo all that Germans had created. Hitler dwells at length on foreign policy, and outlines a strategy of alliance with Fascist Italy and Great Britain. (He actually believed that Britain would accept a German-dominated European continent so long as Germany did not challenge the overseas British empire.) He also foresees an inevitable clash with the United States. This provides solid historical background on Hitler's thinking in the late 1920s, when his party was nothing more than a tiny, radical sect. Weinberg provides helpful notes and a very informative introduction. 20,000 first printing. BOMC, History and Military Book Clubs main selection. (Oct. 10) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Weinberg (A World at Arms) is a respected historian of the Nazi period who discovered the original text of this book, dictated in 1928 but never published, in the captured German archives now housed at Alexandria, VA. In 1961 it was published both in German and in an unauthorized and now out-of-print English translation as Hitler's Secret Book. This new edition provides a smooth translation, a thoughtful preface, and extensive, useful scholarly annotations and notes. This scholarly care does not blunt Hitler's verbose and meandering style or the vileness of the thoughts presented here in all their stultifying ugliness. For the general reader who has already encountered Hitler's ideas in Mein Kampf, most of the contents of this book will be chillingly familiar. For the scholar or student, there is some additional information touching on Hitler's opportunistic approach to the nationality question in the case of Italy and the South Tyrol, as well as acknowledgment of the importance of dealing with the United States. But, except for the notes and scholarly apparatus, Hitler's Second Book extends the ideas of Mein Kampf in only a limited fashion. This book has been picked up by the Military and History Book clubs; so demand may lead to purchase. Suitable for academic libraries and for public libraries striving for completeness.-Barbara Walden, Univ. of Wisconsin Lib., Madison Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Introduction
	Preface	3
I	War and Peace in the Struggle for Survival	7
II	Fighting, Not Industry, Secures Life	16
III	Race, Conflict, and Power	29
IV	Foreign Policy Critique and Proposals	38
V	The Policies of the NSDAP	48
VI	From the Unification of the Reich to a Policy of Space	51
VII	The Misguided Economic and Alliance Policies of the Second Reich	58
VIII	Necessity of Military Power - The Borders of 1914 Not the Goal	83
IX	Neither Border Policies Nor Economic Policies Nor Pan-Europe	99
X	No Neutrality	119
XI	Germany's Political Situation: No Alliance with Russia	134
XII	Basic Principles of German Foreign Policy	153
XIII	The Possible Goals	155
XIV	Germany and England	160
XV	Germany and Italy	175
XVI	Conclusion	224
	App. I	235
	App. II	236
	Notes	241
	Index	289

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Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need

Author: June Axinn

Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need
Seventh Edition

June Axinn
Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
Mark J. Stern
University of Pennsylvania


Basic Approach:

Social Welfare, Seventh Edition, describes and analyzes the ideas that have shaped the history of social welfare–from the Colonial Period to the present day. It offers a comprehensive examination of the history of social welfare that explores the ideas and the economic and political forces that have shaped policy development, providing students with a foundation for understanding current policies.

Features:

• New! The period from 1992—2006 (Chapter 9) looks at the main thrusts of social welfare policy emphasized by the Republican majority in Congress and examines their impact on the poor and the oppressed in the United States.
• Chapter 9 includes updated material on Medicare prescription drug legislation, welfare reform, Hurricane Katrina, and social security privatization.
• Expanded sections cover the historical development of institutions and the de-institutionalization movement.
• Revised discussion of the War on Poverty takes recent scholarship into consideration.
• Expanded discussions of trends in the justice system address the immigration debate and the issue of homosexuality and the law.
• New Discussion Questions for each chapter help engage students in the role of history in contemporary policy debates.

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“I really enjoy Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need and find that each time I read it in order to prepare for class, I pick up a few new interesting facts.”
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Axinn and Stern (social work, U. of Pennsylvania) present a historical narrative of social welfare issues in the US, accompanied by relevant historical documents. Organized around historical time periods from the mid-18th century to 1999, the volume places social welfare policy into economic, demographic, and political contexts. Revisions include new sections on the treatment and status of Native Americans, immigration policy, family roles, and attitudes towards the aging. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)