d sentences in older translations, a spicing of confusi ng and uncommon words, a poor understanding of the underlying meaning, all combined and then obscured the original thoughts which Hitler loudly expressed in his jail cel l. To truly understand Hitler’s foreign policy requires a Mein Kampf translation that can be understood by the average person. We saw a need for this historical work to be made more accessible. More people than ever are discussing Mein Kampf on the Internet, but very few of them have actually read it. They assume they somehow, psychically know what it contains. Some express opinions w ithout understanding what they are so violently against. Most Nazi sympathizers cla im allegiance to the book but cannot quote a single line from it. Neither person can explain why t hey have strong emotions and a strong point of view because they have no idea what is actually in Mein Kampf . All they can say is that they ‘know’ Mein Kampf is bad or good because they believe that is what they should believe. They claim they do not need to read it to know what i s in it. It is hard to believe such foolishness still persists in an era when we accept that the Earth moves around the sun and the stars are not pin pricks in the curtain of night. If you want a re ason to dislike Mein Kampf , then read or listen to it. At least then you can justify your claims. In today’s modern world, people have less time than ever and few can sit down and leisurely read Mein Kampf . Those who tried to read it were met with confusion and frustration because past translations were dificult to understand, choppy, and poorly presented. The result was that people would read the irst few pages and then quit. The lack of an audio version further limited the availability of Mein Kampf to the average, busy person. We saw a need and decided to create a new, easy to understand edit ion of Mein Kampf which would also be available in an audio format as well as printed for ea sy listening while relaxing, jogging, or driving to work. By creating a new audio format, Mein Kampf is now available to many more people who have always watched documentaries , but never understood the full story of man about whom the documentaries were based. When I started this project, I thought it would be easy. Hire a translator, hi re an editor and it would be done. It did not turn out that way. What I thought would be a short project where I dictated work to others and wrapped it up in 3 months turned into a 2 year proje ct that ended with me taking the product from my staff and inishing much of the transl ation MEIN KAMPF 32 MEIN KAMPF and editing myself. I thought I would get a translation, then have it edited and viola, a new Mein Kampf . I had no idea this quick project would turn into a major endeavor. Some of the problems we re errors in the translation, errors in older translations that confused the issue, vari ous versions of original German versions, having parts checked and rechecked by different German speakers, inding an editor who was competent and could understand how sentences it together and led one into the other, and who could correct punctuation and grammar instead of mess them up. I still have found no such person. I had to do my own editing. I went through a number of editors and, even though they had impressive resumes they could not edit to my satisfaction. The inal editor I hired changed artisans t o artists instead of craftsmen. She frequently made a sentence grammatically correct but the m eaning had disappeared into an eloquent sequence of words. I had to go back through the work and ix all of her mistakes while verifying the original German translation. It wa s a dificult and long road but in the end I believe I produced a new piece of history. The irony is t hat this entire project started when I was looking for an audio book version to avoid reading Mein Kampf , but in the end, when I saw what a mess older translations were and that there