<story><title>George Orwell&apos;s review of Mein Kampf (1940)</title><url>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmBhYakPbYtT3k5cDd4Sm1SRUE/edit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelsbradley</author><text>In 1937, Pope Pius XI published a kind of &amp;quot;review&amp;quot; of the ideas in Mein Kampf and the actions of the Nazi Party. &lt;i&gt;Mit Brennender Sorge&lt;/i&gt; (&amp;quot;With Burning Anxiety&amp;quot;) remains the only papal encyclical ever principally published in a language other than Latin. That is, the official edition was published in German and other translations were derived from the German rather than a Latin original. Apparently, the Pope&amp;#x27;s harsh critique enraged Hitler.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_14031937_mit-brennender-sorge_en.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vatican.va&amp;#x2F;holy_father&amp;#x2F;pius_xi&amp;#x2F;encyclicals&amp;#x2F;docume...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mit_brennender_Sorge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mit_brennender_Sorge&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>George Orwell&apos;s review of Mein Kampf (1940)</title><url>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmBhYakPbYtT3k5cDd4Sm1SRUE/edit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Htsthbjig</author><text>With what we know today we could see Orwell picture of Germany was incomplete.&lt;p&gt;People did not want struggling at the time. After the Great depression created by the banks bubble and having everything they could produce taken by countries like France as payment for WWI GERMANS WERE ALREADY STRUGGLING.&lt;p&gt;Germans were dying in winter because the coal was sent to France as payment. And this is not like winter in Morocco. In Germany you have no energy in winter, with 30 Celsius degrees under zero you die.&lt;p&gt;Not only they were struggling, but having all what they could make confiscated to pay debts created a very dangerous situation, there was NO HOPE.&lt;p&gt;They had become slaves. Romans already measured that a slave worked way less than half what a free man did.&lt;p&gt;So Hitler brought hope. He stopped paying the debt(default), the military occupied the coal areas back for Germany and brought hope.&lt;p&gt;Is not that he promised suffering, but that he promised that suffering will end.&lt;p&gt;He also made suffering more tolerable making it social. Hitler created social programs for workers that let them travel and meet other people.&lt;p&gt;It is probably hard to understand for Westerns, but there are millions of people in Africa or India that are happier than people from the West, even while being very poor, because money is not everything, there are friends, for example, that people from Africa have more than isolated westerns.&lt;p&gt;Today the world is in Great Depression number II. Countries are over indebted, and we have the same problem they had: economies had stop to a halt and will be there until bad debts are cleaned, and defaults are issued.</text></comment>