Adolf Hitler published Mein Kampf seven months after his release from prison. He reaffirms the doctrine of Pangermanism, which stipulates the superiority of the German people and the existence of inferior peoples who must be subject (Gypsies, Slavs, Jews, etc.). It describes France as the inexorable and mortal enemy of the German people. He announced the "Great Reich", the merger with Austria and all regions with German minorities. This German expansion should be in the East at the expense of Russian territories and Central Europe, and in the West at the expense of France. Mein Kampf also is a...

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