La mia vita - my life - First Italian Edition of "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler. Milan, 1938

La mia vita - my life - First Italian Edition of "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler. Milan, 1938

La mia vita : Prefazione di Adolf Hitler per l' edizione italiana "My Life: Introduction by Adolf Hitler for the Italian Edition" – Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, Translated into Italian by Prof. Bruno Revel. Published by Bompiani, Milan, 1938 – First Italian Edition of Part I. This edition of Mein Kampf includes an introduction written by Adolf Hitler specifically for the Italian edition.

In his preface, Hitler highlights the shared principles of fascism and Nazism, describing them as "fighting for noble national ideas" in contrast to "the eternal principles of liberalism, which cloud and poison relations between nations."

The publisher’s introduction explains Hitler’s division of Mein Kampf into two parts: the first, titled "Report, " details his personal life and early political activities, while the second, titled "The Nazi Movement, " focuses on his political initiatives. The Italian version of the second part was published under the title La Mia Battaglia in 1934. The present volume is the first Italian edition of the first part, titled My Life (Vita). The translation was published on the eve of World War II, during the period when Nazi and Fascist ideologies merged into a unified dictatorial movement. This is reflected in the publisher's opening remarks:

"This book, a complete translation of the first volume of Mein Kampf, is not just an autobiography… For Hitler, political theories are not abstract or scientific doctrines but are rooted in the human heart. They are inseparable from the circumstances of his personal career, saturated with pain and elevated by hopes. What is most important in judging a political program is not so much its doctrinal profile as its temperature… Adolf Hitler’s early experiences… admirably bring the Italian reader closer to understanding the origins of many aspects of the National Socialist program. The biography of Hitler is an inexhaustible source of ideas, and through it, the reader can enter the ideological world of National Socialism in a profoundly human, painful, and emotional way, granting unparalleled clarity."

Extremely Rare. Only one copy is recorded in the WorldCat library catalog, located in a German library.

[16], 400, [2] pages. Light stains on the cover. Original dust jacket intact. Condition: Good - very good.