Mein Kampf and other readings

Sorry for posting late in the week. I've had quite a bit going on. I'll give a follow up post tomorrow.

For today, we read Hitler's Mein Kampf and some other documents on Social Darwinism.

The general class consensus was that the whole idea of "master races" and innately "inferior" and "superior" people was utterly ridiculous.

We discussed the conditions of Germany and its people when Hitler came to power and that gave us more context through which we could understand how the German people came to follow Hitler and accept his ideas.

I think it is important to understand how downtrodden the German people felt after WWI, and that, in turn, made them more receptive to ideas we today would consider inhuman and overall detrimental to the stability of greater human society.