One Hundred And Thirty-One Years

the Leader was born

For Hitler’s birthday week, we will be posting excerpts from Mein Kampf. Below is our first installment. Hitler’s ignominy in the present day, simply proves his greatness. And his memory will one day raise up his followers to even greater glory.

“For the greater a man’s works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runner of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

Among them must be counted the great warriors in this world who, though not understood by the present, are nevertheless prepared to carry the fight for their ideas and ideals to their end. They are the men who someday will be closest to the heart of the people; it almost seems as though every individual feels the duty of compensating in the past for the sins which the present once committed against the great. Their life and work are followed with admiring gratitude and emotion, and especially in the days of gloom they have the power to raise up broken hearts and despairing souls.”