There are few examples available of Hitler's thought processes, especially during the war when he practically stopped appearing and speaking in public. These notes show a Hitler relaxed, but very much "in control" of his utterances, revealing some of the more brutal and violent traits of his nature as he casually recommends "shooting" people without trial, or sending them to concentration camps by the hundreds of thousands.

This book is the most significant record of Hitler's mind and character in existence. Revealing, for instance, his thoughts on the English language, which he thought inferior to German, as it "lacks the ability to express thoughts that surpass the order of concrete things", his hatred of idealism, and how "he found it quite normal that the bodies of his political prisoners should be burned and their ashes used by his SS guards to manure their gardens". It must be read, to understand the inner workings of a mind capable of genocide. A rare and revealing look into a repellent mind.