Editing Mein Kampf (section)

===Antisemitism===
While historians dispute the exact date Hitler decided to [[Final Solution|exterminate the Jewish people]], few place the decision before the mid-1930s.<ref name=Browning2003p12>{{cite book |first=Christopher R. |last=Browning |author-link=Christopher Browning |year=2003 |title=Initiating the Final Solution: The Fateful Months of September–October 1941 |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies |location=Washington, D.C. |oclc=53343660 |page=12}}</ref> First published in 1925, {{lang|de|Mein Kampf}} shows Hitler's personal grievances and his ambitions for creating a [[New Order (Nazism)|New Order]]. Hitler also wrote that ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'', a fabricated text that purported to expose a Jewish plot to control the world,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Graves |first=Philip |url=https://archive.org/details/truthaboutthepro00londiala|title=The truth about 'The Protocols': a literary forgery |year=1921 |work=[[The Times of London]] |format=pamphlet |type=articles collection |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510140102/https://archive.org/details/truthaboutthepro00londiala|archive-date=10 May 2013}}</ref> was an authentic document. This later became a part of the [[Nazi propaganda]] effort to justify persecution and annihilation of the Jews.<ref>{{cite book |first=Adolf |last=Hitler |author-link=Adolf Hitler |title=Mein Kampf |chapter=XI: Nation and Race |volume=I |pages=307–308 |title-link=Mein Kampf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Nora|last=Levin|title=The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry 1933–1945|date=1973|publisher=Schocken|location=New York City|isbn=978-0805203769}}</ref>

The historian [[Ian Kershaw]] observed that several passages in {{lang|de|Mein Kampf}} are undeniably of a [[Genocide|genocidal]] nature.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ian|last=Kershaw|author-link=Ian Kershaw|title=Hitler 1889–1936 Hubris|publisher=[[W.W. Norton and Company]]|location=New York City|date=1999|isbn=978-0393320350|page=258}}</ref> Hitler wrote "the nationalization of our masses will succeed only when, aside from all the positive struggle for the soul of our people, their international poisoners are exterminated",<ref>Adolf Hitler, ''Mein Kampf'', Volume One – A Reckoning, Chapter XII: The First Period of Development of the National Socialist German Workers' Party</ref> and he suggested that, "If at the beginning of the war and during the war twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the nation had been subjected to poison gas, such as had to be endured in the field by hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers of all classes and professions, then the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain."<ref name="Yahil-1991">Adolf Hitler, ''Mein Kampf'', Volume Two – A Reckoning, Chapter XV: The Right of Emergency Defense, p. 984, quoted in {{cite book |last=Yahlil |first=Leni |title=The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932–1945 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_aRvKpLUf0C&pg=PA51 |access-date=9 January 2016 |year=1991 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-504523-9 |page=51 |chapter=2. Hitler Implements Twentieth-Century Anti-Semitism |oclc=20169748}}</ref>

The racial laws to which Hitler referred resonate directly with his ideas in {{lang|de|Mein Kampf}}. In the first edition, Hitler stated that the destruction of the weak and sick is far more humane than their protection. Apart from this allusion to humane treatment, Hitler saw a purpose in destroying "the weak" in order to provide the proper space and purity for the "strong".<ref>A. Hitler. ''Mein Kampf'' (Munich: Franz Eher Nachfolger, 1930), p. 478</ref>