Does History Repeat Itself? Well, Kinda

On 18 July 1925, part one of “Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice” was published in Germany. The book did not see rewarding sales numbers.

The author was in prison when he composed this ‘autobiography’; it was the original title of the work published as Mein Kampf.

The author, failed artist Adolph Hitler, had been convicted of treason and sentenced to five years for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.

The ‘Putsch’ was an attempted coup by Hitler and his assortment of allies to take control of the government in the southern state of Bavaria, a growing centre of the Nazi Party.

The coup did not go well. In fact, it was a disaster. Some of Hitler’s allies deserted, some were grabbed up by authorities – and some of those ‘allies’ sought to make deals.

While the five year sentence was nothing but symbolic, Hitler served only nine months of that. And it was not hard time; leaving him the freedom to dictate his political manifesto.

And realted: Manifestos, central to theories of repeating history