Mein Kampf
Hitler was tried for high treason and used his trial as an opportunity to spread his message throughout Germany. In April 1924 he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in Landsberg Prison, where he received preferential treatment from sympathetic guards and received substantial quantities of fan mail, including funds and other assistance. During 1923 and 1924 at Landsberg he dictated the first volume of a book called Mein Kampf (My Struggle) to his faithful deputy Rudolf Hess.
In Mein Kampf Hitler speaks at length about his youth, early days in the Nazi Party, future plans for Germany and general ideas on politics and race. The original title Hitler chose was My Struggle Against Four and a Half Years of Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice. His publisher shortened this to Mein Kampf.
During his childhood, Hitler had little interest in politics, as he fancied himself a painter. Like other boys in his part of Austria, he was attracted to Pan-Germanism, but his intellectual pursuits were generally those of a dilettante. After the fifth grade, he began neglecting his schoolwork, was forced to repeat a grade, and continually had to take special examinations to be permitted to advance to the next grade level. Soon after his father, Alois, died in 1903, Hitler dropped out of high school at age 16, living at home and pursuing a Bohemian lifestyle.
He discovered his skill in oratory after the end of World War I. Hitler's objective as a politician was to restore the dignity of the German nation.
Hitler wrote of his hatred towards what he believed were the world's twin evils: communism and Judaism. He said his aim was to eradicate both from Germany.
He also wrote that Germany needed to obtain new soil, called lebensraum, which would properly nurture the "historic destiny" of the German people. This was envisioned to encompass vast regions of Eastern Europe.
Read more about this topic: Adolf Hitler's Political Views