jul 18, 1925 - Mein Kampf published

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-set out NSDAP message/ideology

-key ideas of NSDAP: revisionism (Treaty of Versailles), Volksgemeinschaft (coordination/community based on blood/ethnicity), rebirth of the nation ("Janus-faced"), Greater Germany (expansion + Lebensraum), rejection of democracy + communism, single party state (totalitarianism), Social Darwinism (Aryan superiority + anti-Semitism)

-attracted nationalists, anti-Semites & anti-communists to NSDAP

-many attracted to sense of hope, belonging, certainty, regeneration, new order embodied by Hitler, that the Weimar Republic lacked (not necessarily anti-Semitism etc.)

-under Nazi regime, it became the main model for literature to follow

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