File this under just weird: Indian business students snap up copies of Mein Kampf

Sales of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's autobiography and apologia for his anti-semitism, are soaring in India where business students regard the dictator as a management guru.

By Monty Munford in New Delhi
Last Updated: 11:27AM BST 20 Apr 2009


Booksellers told The Daily Telegraph that while it is regarded in most countries as a 'Nazi Bible', in India it is considered a management guide in the mould of Spencer Johnson's "Who Moved My Cheese".

Sales of the book over the last six months topped 10,000 in New Delhi alone, according to leading stores, who said it appeared to be becoming more popular with every year.


Several said the surge in sales was due to demand from students who see it as a self-improvement and management strategy guide for aspiring business leaders, and who were happy to cite it as an inspiration.

"Students are increasingly coming in asking for it and we're happy to sell it to them," said Sohin Lakhani, owner of Mumbai-based Embassy books who reprints Mein Kampf every quarter and shrugs off any moral issues in publishing the book.

"They see it as a kind of success story where one man can have a vision, work out a plan on how to implement it and then successfully complete it".

Jaico Publishing House, one of the publishers in India, said it reprints a new edition of the book at least twice a year to meet growing demand.

"We were the first company to publish the book in India and there are now six other Indian publishers of the book, although we were first to take a chance on it," said Jaico's chief editor, R H Sharma, who dismissed any moral issues in publishing Mein Kampf.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/5182107/Indian-business-students-snap-up-copies-of-Mein-Kampf.html

Good news for Hitler on the 120th anniversary of his birth; he's a best seller in India!

I know that's a weird question, but I wonder who's making money off of this.

Since it's in the public domain, his estate (did he even have one? and wouldn't proceeds from it be seized as war reparations?) would realize nothing on such sales.

The book printers and sellers get it all.

:mad:

Hmm.

Particularly since that's one of the few countries that hasn't eschewed the swastika, owing to its meaning that predates what Moustache McAsshole did with it.

"Management Guru?" That's just...icky. How anyone can, in good conscience, 'dismiss any moral issues' is beyond me.

But in the right context..People need to look into the developing mind of a mad man.

All of the Manifesto/Diaries/ etc.. provide a great view of the inner workings of lunacy.

As far as a management tool, they should read Hitler's own General's thoughts on his management or mis-management of the German War Effort. He was no strategic wizard. I shudder to think what could have happened had he not taken the war out of his competent generals hands in order to run it himself.


(On edit, Damn I have to remember It is "Spell Check before Post")

Pardon me for wanting to be well informed.

that's how I know that it is indeed dreck

If you hadn't read it then what would you know about it? Only what you are told.

the unpublished one, another probably ghostwritten rambling, very obscure, so if you're a buff you'll love to have read it.

It think Weinberg published it or parts of it in english....

http://usedmarketplace.borders.com/booksearch?binding=&mtype=&keyword=hitlers+second+book&hs.x=0&hs.y=0&hs=Submit

Never even heard of this!

history, the causes and effects people and events can be very enlightening on current relations both personal and national.
I always researched the history of locales I was deployed to and the reasons for for the strife there.

Thanks for recommendation, I will look it up.

I don't think anyone will need to be worrying about them as an economic threat

but for a different reason.
When I first read Rebuilding Americas Defenses by the American Enterprise Institute the first thing I thought was that I had just read a sequel to Mien Khampf.

I also own a Bible and have read it several times.
Doesn't mean that I believe what I read.

I don't think his process of implementation is one that should be used in business management, though.

I mean, I do hope they realize he was insane and didn't bring Germany to greatness through inspiration and hard work, but through fear, manipulation, and demagoguery, and then when he had foot far enough in the door, violence, complete disregard for the law, and paranoia?

Seriously, of all the dumbass books to use in management.

If Hitler didn't have the SS backing him up, he never would have "managed" Germany.

What are these business kids gonna learn? Post a security goon at every cubicle, and offer huge rewards to snitches?

I always knew there was a "connection" between Hitler and Ford, but this book is quite amazing in detail and scope, and well reviewed and received. (Neil Baldwin, author.) It does not surprise me that there are those who would regard Hitler as a business model. It's a fucked up world we live in, but in an Alice in Wonderland kind of way...Imagine My Surprise.

but gave it that extra special lunatic twist

but his implementation kind of sucked.

Like it or not, there are whispers out there connecting all Jews to the actions of the neocons and the worst of the renegade bankers.

I'm afraid the world's favorite scapegoat is starting to be scapegoated again.

I hate news like this.

But while many Indians are good, there are many who are firmly to the right wing, and see Muslims the way Germans saw Jews. They see resurgent India as a sign of true "aryan" resurgence, and have every intention of being dominant alpha male bastards.

Nothing to dismiss lightly. Though as we know from Partition, Indians can be as bloodthirsty as any crazy radical muslim. And I say that as someone with numerous Indian friends.

Mein Kampf as a guide to.... anything.