“THIS DAY IN HISTORY”: JULY 18

   In 1925, Adolf Hitler publishes his book Mein Kampf (original title was "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")

During Hitler's years in power, the book was given free to every newlywed couple and every soldier fighting at the front. By 1939 the book had sold 5.2 million copies in eleven languages. By the end of the war, about 10 million copies of the book had been sold or distributed in Germany.