Mein Kampf
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Part One: Behind the Bastards Q&A: Year's End Edition | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Podcast: Behind the BastardsLike obviously, Stalin's a foreign leader, but I've been reading about Stalin my whole life. Hitler's a foreign leader—I've read more books about Hitler than anybody who's not a Hitler scholar—but like Jair Bolsonaro?
- Episode: Judge Rules Mail In Votes ILLEGAL After Election Day, TRUMP WINNING w/Mike Benz | Timcast IRL
Podcast: Timcast IRLThey were saying he has quotes from Mein Kampf on his dresser, and some ex-girlfriend 30 years ago said not only this; the quote about wanting generals was published in 2022.
- Episode: Kamala BOMBS Fox Interview, Gets ROASTED For Unhinged NON ANSWERS w/Joel Berry | Timcast IRL
Podcast: Timcast IRLThis is one of the most terrifying things that you've heard a presidential candidate say because it is straight out of Mein Kampf.
- Episode: Part Three: America's First Fascist Governor | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Podcast: Behind the BastardsI'm one of the very few people who have read Mein Kampf because that book is not readable seven times.
- Episode: Part Three: America's First Fascist Governor | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Podcast: Behind the BastardsHis opponents took turns attacking him, one targeting Jean for boasting that he had read Hitler's book seven times, although he said he was too busy to read any other books.
- Episode: Part Three: America's First Fascist Governor | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Podcast: Behind the BastardsMy favorite Mein Kampf joke is in the movie Churchill: The Hollywood Years when Winston Churchill, played by Christian Slater, sees a copy of Mein Kampf by his bed and goes, 'What's this, a gay prison novel?'
- Episode: Part Three: America's First Fascist Governor | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Podcast: Behind the BastardsHe embraced this 'minor dictator' refrain, and to conclude from Anderson, 'Jean's early admiration for Hitler, the fact that he had read Hitler's book seven times, and his tendency to surround himself with huge military staffs and nonchalantly call for martial law gave an eerie backing to his words.'
- Episode: Part One: America's First Fascist Governor | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Podcast: Behind the BastardsI'm writing a book in German about—nope, okay, anyway, here's some ads.
- Episode: Part One: America's First Fascist Governor | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Podcast: Behind the BastardsGarrison, it's hard not to make a Mein Kampf joke when someone says the word struggle; you know that's my struggle.
- Episode: Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler | Lex Fridman Podcast #444
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastTo try to analyze Hitler's acts or alleged motives in the absence of the ideology that he himself subscribed to and described in hateful detail in 'Mein Kampf' and other manifestos and speeches is an enterprise that's doomed to failure, justifiably.
- Episode: Henry Ford: The Good, Bad and Ugly | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowHitler cited Henry Ford as a inspiration in Mein Kampf, and I think in 1931, a reporter from the Detroit News interviewed Hitler in his office and noted that there was a huge portrait of Henry Ford behind Hitler at his desk.
- Episode: Harris and Trump Prepare for Highly Anticipated Debate Before Early Voting Begins
Podcast: Pod Save AmericaHe was also a Holocaust denier; he used to quote Hitler all the time; he said that a Black panther was, uh, Jews trying to take money from Black people... or, think she...
- Episode: Tim Walz Delivers BLOCKBUSTER Speech + Trump Seethes Over Barack Obama's Jokes | DNC Night 3
Podcast: Pod Save AmericaSo when Donald Trump is out here paraphrasing Mein Kampf and talking about immigrants poisoning the blood of this country, well then you go look at Project 2025, the architect, but also what's in the plan.
- Episode: CZM Rewind: Part One: Savitri Devi The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Podcast: Behind the BastardsBy 1930, she finally read Mein Kampf for the very first time, which introduced Maximan to Hitler's theories about the Aryan race. His ideas about the superior race, consistently undermined by the evil Jews, jelled remarkably well with Maximan's own beliefs about the ancient Greeks and the Jews.
- Episode: CZM Rewind: Part One: Savitri Devi The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Podcast: Behind the BastardsThis is the guy he co-wrote Mein Kampf with; like Hess and Hitler are like tight before his...His is like his ghostwriter?
- Episode: CZM Rewind: Part One: Savitri Devi The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Podcast: Behind the BastardsAnd here's how he wrote about that moment in Mein Kampf. This takes place, I think, in Austria \u2013 no, sorry, in Vienna.
- Episode: Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #414
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastThere's no idea, there's no—I mean there's no 'Mein Kampf' is not 'Das Kapital', right? 'Mein Kampf' is—like, to the extent I understand it, it's like he's about the Treaty of Versailles.
- Episode: Esperanto: Tre Mojosa | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowHe wrote about it in Mein Kampf, claiming that it was a secret Jewish language used to plot against Germany.
- Episode: Timothy Denevi on Hunter S Thompson and the Art of Journalism
Podcast: The Daily StoicAnd that same year, Stackpole, which was also more of a military publisher, they did a lot of books in military history, they published an unauthorized edition of 'Mein Kampf.' Oh wow, Hitler being...then like it'd be like if Putin had written a book and they felt like people should read it.
- Episode: Part Two: Lord Aspinall: The Gambling King of London | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Podcast: Behind the BastardsIn fact, after a bad night's gambling, he would calm himself down by reading Mein Kampf.
- Episode: Things Have Taken a Turn & This Is My Final Warning | Dennis Prager | POLITICS | Rubin Report
Podcast: The Rubin ReportThat means a lot of books were banned. You mean your elementary school didn't have 'Mein Kampf'? Well, listen, here's the irony.
- Episode: Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #377
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastIt's one of the most important books of the 20th century, and it's politically incorrect to read it.
- Episode: Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #377
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastIt's one of the most important books ever written; how can an educated person not have at least breezed through 'Mein Kampf'?
- Episode: Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #377
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastI mean, six million Jews died; an enormous number of other people died because one guy wrote a book called 'Mein Kampf' and took it seriously.
- Episode: Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #377
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastAnd I said, 'Well, it's one of the most important books of the 20th century.'
- Episode: Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #377
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastSomebody asked me once about what books would be required reading in literature courses, and I listed 'Mein Kampf', and they were horrified.
- Episode: Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #377
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastI think I would rather read 'Mein Kampf' to understand people that hate.
- Episode: Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road | Lex Fridman Podcast #340
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastIt's hard to visualize it in the way I can visualize, like, I've been reading a lot about Hitler; I can visualize meetings between people, military strategy, deciding on certain evil atrocities, all that kind of stuff. I can visualize the people; there's agreements, handshakes, stuff signed, groups built. In the digital space, like with bots, with anonymity, anyone human can be multiple people.
- Episode: Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony | Lex Fridman Podcast #256
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastHe hated nation states; his whole theory, if you pick up, I don't recommend doing this, but if you do read Mein Kampf, then you'll see that he says explicitly that the goal is for Germany to be the lord of the earth and mistress of the globe.