( My
Struggle )
PREFACE
ON
Thus, after years of uninterrupted work, an
opportunity was for the first time offered me to embark upon a task which many
had demanded and which I myself felt to be worth while for the movement. I
decided to set forth, in two volumes, the aims of our movement, and also to
draw a picture of its development. From this it will be possible to learn more
than from any purely doctrinaire treatise.
At the same time I have had occasion to give
an account of my own development, in so far as this is necessary for the
understanding of the first as well as the second volume, and in so far as it
may serve to destroy the foul legends about my person dished up in the Jewish
press.
I do not address this work to strangers, but
to those adherents of the movement who belong to it with their hearts, and
whose intelligence is eager for a more penetrating enlightenment. I know that
men are won over less by the written than by the spoken word, that every great
movement on this earth owes it growth to great orators and not to great
writers.
Nevertheless, for a doctrine to be
disseminated uniformly and coherently, its basic elements must be set down for
all time. To this end I wish to contribute these two volumes as foundation
stones in our common edifice.
The Author
Source: Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf.