(New Republic) Omer Bartov - Adolf Hitler's so-called second book, written in 1928, was not published in his lifetime because it was apparently seen as disclosing his foreign policy plans too explicitly to allow publication. Published in German in 1961, and in a pirated and unreliable English edition in 1962, it is only now that the public can read this text in an authoritative translation. We still do not seem to have learned a simple crucial lesson that Hitler taught us more definitively than anyone else in history: some people, some regimes, some ideologies, some political programs, and, yes, some religious groups, must be taken at their word. Some people mean what they say, and say what they will do, and do what they said. When they say they will kill you, they will kill you - if you do not kill them first.
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