Bland and superficial, the book could hardly have given offense to the Party-perhaps it simply was ignored by the German public.
It is difficult to account for the destruction of almost the entire edition. The Hoover Institution's copy of the book has a handwritten note in German stating that all but fifty copies of the edition of five thousand were destroyed, the fifty copies being given to old Party members.
For the “prehistory” of the paper-i.e., its history before the Nazis bought it-see Dresler, Adolf, Geschichte des “Völkischen Beobachters” und des Zentralverlages der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf ( Munich, 1937), Google Scholar the official Nazi history of the paper.
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