Wednesday, July 04, 2007

"When eventually [Hitler] came to power there was no book

which deserved more careful study from the rulers, political

and military, of the Allied Powers [than Mein Kampf]. All was

there--the programme of German resurrection, the technique

of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the

concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of

Germany at the summit of the world. Here was the new

Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but

pregnant with its message."


-Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm.