42: Hitler's Struggle
While serving his prison sentence for his failed beer hall putsch, Adolf Hitler made some adjustments to "world-view." By Ian Kershaw Ideas which had been taking shape in his mind since late 1922, if not earlier, on the direction of future foreign policy were now elaborated into the notion of a quest for "living space," to be gained at the expense of Russia. Blended into his obsessive antisemitism, aimed at the destruction of "Jewish Bolshevism," the concept of a war for "living space" -- an idea which Hitler would repeatedly emphasize in the following years -- rounded off his "world view." Thereafter, there would be tactical adjustments, but no further alteration of substance. The modifications in Hitler's "world-view" that were already forming in the year before the putsch are clearly evident in Mein Kampf . Hitler's book offered nothing new. But it was the plainest and most expansive statement of his "world vi...