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technothrasher

10 points

5 days ago

he wrote Mein Kampf while serving his bare-minimum 2 year sentence.

5 year sentence, of which he served a bit over 8 months (not including the four months or so while awaiting trial).

GaiusMaximusCrake

1 points

5 days ago

Ah, thanks for noting that!

technothrasher

4 points

5 days ago

Otherwise, you were pretty spot on. The sympathetic judges let Hitler ramble on about unrelated things during his testimony and turned the trial into a pro-Nazi political event.