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Referenced when discussing Hitler's worldview, specifically his 1925 statement that 'the life of man is a dreadful struggle for existence'

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Tom reads a passage from Mein Kampf describing Hitler's first experience in battle during autumn 1914, marching to Flanders and encountering enemy fire while singing Deutschland über alles

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Referenced multiple times - first when discussing how Hitler's plans had been evident for years in his writings, and later noting it was the 100th anniversary of its publication.

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Referenced when discussing Hitler's worldview and ideology of racial struggle. Tom mentions 'you open the pages of Mein Kampf. It's all full of this stuff about a coming race war, the struggle for the future of the planet.'

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Mentioned in the context of a famous photograph showing a GI reading Hitler's book while lying on Hitler's bed in Munich, which 'went around the world' as an iconic war image.

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Referenced in a Yorkshire Post editorial from 1938, stating that the treatment of German Jews could have been anticipated by reading this book, which is 'plastered with anti-Semitic abuse'

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Referenced when discussing why Jewish families might not have left Germany, noting that 'if you haven't studied Mein Kampf and all Hitler's speeches, so you don't know what's coming' - explaining why some Jews thought the persecution might be temporary.

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Referenced when discussing Hitler's understanding of history and the concept of struggle, with Tom noting 'that echo of Mein Kampf' in relation to a Nazi documentary titled 'All Life is Struggle.'

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The episode opens with a quote from this book, explicitly identified as 'Adolf Hitler writing in 1925 in Mein Kampf, My Struggle.' The hosts discuss its significance in understanding Hitler's ideology of struggle and conflict.

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Trevor Phillips recounts a story about Dudley Thompson (who later became Jamaica's foreign minister) finding a copy of Mein Kampf at a dentist's office, reading references to black people as 'semi-anthropoidal,' which motivated him to join the RAF and fight against Hitler in World War II.

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Referenced twice: first when discussing that anyone who read it would know about Nazi genocidal ambitions, and later noting that Unity Mitford had a signed copy from Hitler that she used like an autograph book for Nazi luminaries.

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Mentioned in comparison to Arnold Spencer-Leese's book on camels, implying it's 'a better read' than Hitler's work

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Hitler's autobiographical manifesto, discussed extensively as the book he dictated while imprisoned at Landsberg. The hosts discuss its themes of anti-Semitism and plans for expansion into Russia.

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Explicitly mentioned as 'Mein Kampf, My Struggle, which he writes in the mid-1920s' - quoted from regarding Hitler's reaction to Germany's defeat

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Referenced at the end of the episode as a preview of the next episode, describing how Hitler decided to write this book while serving his sentence in Landsberg prison to 'keep the Nazi flame burning'

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Referenced multiple times in discussion of Hitler's ideology and development. Kershaw discusses what Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf about his realization he could speak, and about figures he admired like Georg Schoenner and Karl Lueger.

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Referenced when discussing Nazism as a conspiracy theory - 'you read Mein Kampf, Mein Kampf is a massive conspiracy theory'

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Referenced when discussing Hitler's views on the Battle of Tours - 'he spelt it out in his table talk' - followed by a direct quotation from the work