Offered for sale is a rare original
1939 PEOPLE’S EDITION OF ADOLF HITLERS “MEIN KAMPF”
SOLD IN 1940 IN NEW YORK, USA TO A LADY FROM GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT
Adolf Hitler’s autobiography and political manifest. The copies that are offered for sale are all the People’s Edition or Volksausgabe, published by Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, Franz Eher, Nachf. The Volksausgabe was smaller in size than the earlier editions. In fact, it now had the same size as a standard German bible. This was no coincidence; the Nazi’s goal was that Mein Kampf would eventually replace the bible in every German household.
415. – 416. People’s Edition or Volksausgabe, published in 1939 by Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, Franz Eher, Nachf. in Munich, Germany. Nice condition, some spots on the cover. This copy has a sticker of the bookstore in New York on the inside cover which sold it in August of 1940 to a lady in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Eher publishing company subcontracted to a number of binderies throughout Germany and had them print copies of Mein Kampf. This is one of them. The book was printed by NS-Gauverlag und Druckerei in Tirol, Innsbruck.
Hitler dictated this book to his secretary, Rudolf Hess while imprisoned in Landsberg after the failed 1923 revolution. The first editions (1925 and 1926) were only “Band I” (volume one). “Band II” (volume two) was first published in December 1926. All the “official” Third Reich copies (1933 to 1945) contained both volumes combined in one book. Very few copies of the first editions have survived. When his book first came out it was not a success, few people cared about the book in 1925 which would almost have had a much longer title. The original title Hitler chose was “Viereinhalb Jahre [des Kampfes] gegen Lüge, Dummheit und Feigheit” (Four and a Half Years [of Struggle] against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice). His Nazi publisher, Max Amann, decided this title was too complicated and had it shortened to Mein Kampf (simply “My Struggle”). Before Hitler became Reich Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Mein Kampf sold very slowly; but in 1933 alone 1.5 million copies were sold.
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