Hitlers Zweites Buch - Eine vergessene Quelle der Zeitgeschichte zu Hitlers außenpolitischen Ansichten

The following seminar paper takes a closer look at one of the lesser known writings of Adolf Hitler. His second book came to the surface only through the work of historians in the 1950s. This paper is to present the discovery, the following publication of this manuscript and the public and scholarly reaction to it. Secondly, it will contemplate Hitler`s thoughts and views on German foreign policy. Finally, it will discuss several theories on why this unfinished manuscript never came to be published until 1961in the first place.