Editing Mein Kampf (section)

==Sequel==
{{Main|Zweites Buch}}
Hitler believed that the reason for the Nazi party's poor showing in the 1928 elections was the public's misunderstanding of his ideas. He retired to Munich to dictate a sequel to {{lang|de|Mein Kampf}} to expand on its ideas, with more focus on foreign policy. Only two copies of the 200-page manuscript were originally made, and only one of these was ever made public. The document was neither edited nor published during the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi era]], and remains known as {{lang|de|[[Zweites Buch]]}}, or 'Second Book'. To keep the document strictly secret, in 1935 Hitler ordered that it be placed in a safe in an air raid shelter, where it remained until being discovered by an American officer in 1945.

The authenticity of the document found in 1945 has been verified by Josef Berg, a former employee of the Nazi publishing house Eher Verlag, and [[Telford Taylor]], a former brigadier general of the United States Army Reserve and Chief Counsel at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials. In 1958, the {{lang|de|Zweites Buch}} was found in the archives of the United States by American historian [[Gerhard Weinberg]]. Unable to find an American publisher, Weinberg turned to his mentor – [[Hans Rothfels]] at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich – and his associate [[Martin Broszat]], who published {{lang|de|Zweites Buch}} in 1961. A pirated edition was published in English in New York in 1962. The first authoritative English edition was not published until 2003 (''[[Zweites Buch|Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf]]'', {{ISBN|1-929631-16-2}}).