Sawan Presents Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler from Biographis of Great Personalities. Adolf Hitler's political manifesto Mein Kampf (German for "My Struggle"). It was his sole finished book, and it became the bible of National Socialism under Germany's Third Reich. It was first published in two volumes in 1925 and 1927, followed by an abbreviated version in 1930. It had sold 5,200,000 copies and been translated into 11 languages by 1939. Die Abrechnung was written in 1924 at the Bavarian castle of Landsberg am Lech, where Hitler was imprisoned after the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. It depicts Hitler's childhood, the First World War, and the "betrayal" of Germany's collapse in 1918; it also expresses Hitler's racist ideology, identifying the Aryan as the "genius" race and the Jew as the "parasite," and declares the need for Germans to seek living space in the East at the expense of the Slavs and Russia's despised Marxists. It also demands vengeance on France.