TD: volume 13, issue 2016, 1, page 45–70

Abstract

Es folgt die Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache following the article short description

This article argues that there is an astonishing discrepancy between Hitler’s grandiose public behavior and his inhibited process of writing. His author awareness remains quite evasive and it is not confident. While writing “Mein Kampf” at Landsberg, Hitler takes great pains to destroy most of the written evidence by discarding his drafts and sketches. This restrained behavior might be understandable for a not yet established writer. However, after the implimentation of his dictatorship, this behavior gets rather bizarre: While “Mein Kampf” becomes a monolithic and canonical text, it must not be interpreted, commented on, or officially altered at the same time.