Hitler's Mein Kampf Seen As Self-Help Guide For India's Business Students

[sufrommich]

"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".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/22/hitlers-mein-kampf-seen-a_n_190064.html

"successfully complete it" that's just precious. :puke:

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. well, Adolf was all about the "Aryan" race. Or so he said.

And the original "Aryans" weren't blue eyed blonde Germans.

[T Wolf]

2. Anyone who has read the book should be able to acknowledge the fact that Adolph was

pretty damn effective at gaining power. Holding onto it in the face of armed opposition from the US is what cost him, in the end.

What is fascinating is how he read the psyche of the German people and used their fears and hatreds to bring himself to power. Gee, that sounds familiar.

Give the devil his due, people. Adolph did not have rich parents who bought him power. He got power the old-fashioned way. He earned it. He did have a vision. He did work out a plan. He did successfully implement that plan and became leader of a nation, and then, almost an entire continent.

The lesson is there for all to learn.

That business-people would look to him for a model of "how to make friends and influence people" is not that big a stretch. How many consumer decisions are made on the emotions that are evoked by advertising that connects with something inside of us?