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Italian ed. of the 2nd part (1934)

{it} Adolf Hitler. La mia vita, tr. Bruno Revel,. Milano: Bompiani, 1938 <1925>. <Italian ed.>

Abstract

Translation of the 1st part of Hitler's Mein Kampf (1925). The 2nd part had already been published in 1934 under the title [:File:1934 Hitler 1 it.jpg|La mia battaglia].

The publication of Hitler's Mein Kampf was promoted by Benito Mussolini himself as part as a sustained antisemitic campaign that would lead to the promulgation of the Racial Laws in 1938. Ironically, the translator of the 1934 volume, Angelo Treves, was a Jew and communist, and his name could not be mentioned as Hitler had explicitly required that the translator be a non-Jewish Italian. The translator of the 1938 volume was now a non-Jew, but a Waldensian, married with a Jew, and an antifascist.