description: After the Nazi Party's poor showing in the 1928 elections, Hitler decided that the public did not fully understand his ideas. He retired to Munich and began dictating a sequel to Mein Kampf. It focused on foreign policy, expanding on the ideas of Mein Kampf and suggesting that around 1980, a final struggle would take place for world domination between the United States and the combined forces of Greater Germany and the British Empire.The origins of Zweites Buch can be traced back to one of the main issues during the 1928 Reichstag elections, the condition of ethnic Germans in Italy.In the province of South Tyrol, which had become part of the Italy after World War I, but possessed a German-speaking majority, Benito Mussolini's Fascist government had followed a policy of forcible Italianization of the German-speaking majority, a policy widely opposed in Germany. During the 1928 Reichstag elections, the leader of the German People's Party, the Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann felt that taking a strong diplomatic stand against the Italianization policies of Fascist Italy might improve his party's chances at the polls. Indeed, every German political party — except the Nazi Party — followed Stresemann's lead and vied with each other to offer the strongest possible condemnation of Mussolini's treatment of Italy's German minority.
language: English
title: Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf
titlecomplete: Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf
genres: Biography, War, Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Nazi Party, Holocaust, Germany, History, World War II
ratings_count: 636
publisher: Enigma Books