Hitler's Contradictions

After reading Mein Kamf, I find it hard to believe that the Nazis still believed in their absolute leader, Hitler, after reading such a hypocritical book written by him. The clear-cut contradictory statements made in his biography are hard to miss by anyone who actually read the book closely and tried to understand Hitler as a person. One of the subjects that I find to be most inconsistent throughout the book is Hitler’s take on media. Hitler states in the early chapters of his book how he got to loathe the Jewish race and become enlightened of their treachery. He states in Mein Kamf,

“Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation……. I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments, which gave me some food for thought. At all events, these occasions slowly made me acquainted with the man and the movement, which in those days guided Vienna's destinies.”

Here Hitler is speaking about how he first got acquainted with Karl Lueger, a member of the anti-Semitic Christian Social Party and mayor of Vienna, and other anti-Semitic leaders. He read and listened to them through the press. He referred to media as “food for thought” and believed that his continual readings of this media led him to follow his idol in German politics. However, after Hitler starts listing reasons of how Jews were evil and what helped them along the way he makes this comment, “Freemasonry is joined by a second weapon in the service of the Jews: the press.” Hitler refers to the press as being used as a weapon by the Jews when he himself learned about the “evilness” of the Jews from the press. He blames the Jewish propaganda for leading people down the wrong path when he himself became an advocate for anti-Semitic practices through what he learned through anti-Semitic propaganda. Throughout his career as well and to the day that his followers were reading this biography, the press was one of the main tools Hitler used to gather followers to his cause. This is just but one example of how Hitler contradicts himself in Mein Kamf and it makes me wonder how such intelligent people such as the Germans fall into the spell of Nazism with this man as their leader.