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Question: Critically evaluate the following pair of documents placing them in their historical context and discussing their status in the historiography:
1.22: Adolf Hitler extracts from Mein Kampf (1925)
1.24 Adolf Hitler, speech to the Reichstag (7 March 1936)
Answer: Document 1.22 consists of extracts from Mein Kampf. Document 1.24 is a transcript of a speech to the Reichstag by Hitler. Eleven years apart, both are primary sources. Document 1.22 consists of extracts and the whole work should be viewed to utilise its contents as a reliable source whereas document 1.24 is a full account and can be taken as it is. Document 1.24 is a public document with an audience of members of the Reichstag and film evidence validates its authenticity. Mein Kampf was written during Hitler’s time in prison and was intended for publication with an audience of the Nazi party and beyond . Both documents have been translated but as both documents have been utilised by many notable historians their accuracy is assumed. In both documents Hitler describes foreign policy aims, however, when writing Mein Kampf Hitler was not in a position of power but by 1936, as Fuhrer of ...(short extract)
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- Subject: World War 1 and 2
- Course: AA312
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 66%
- Words: 2682
- Date submitted: January 13, 2009
- Date written: September, 2007
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 93
