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Mein Kampf, or My Struggle, was Hitler's autobiography written while incarcerated for the National Socialist German Workers' Party putsch of 1923 where it was the party's intention of taking over the whole of Germany. The revolt was unsuccessful and left many involved in jail. The excerpt of the book, located in The Jew in the Modern World, concerns the development of Hitler's anti-Semitic views as well as his final conclusions concerning the fate of Jews. This early literature of the Nazis shows to the reader the way in which Jews would be dehumanized enough to no longer consider them Germans, then European, then hardly human.
The beginning of the excerpt, Hitler admits to his feeling that he considered Jews to be Germans due to the "course of the centuries their outward appearance had become Europeanized and had taken on a human look." By referring to a "human look", Hitler is dehumanizing the Jewish German in the eyes of his readers. This becomes the very important step......

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