Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler made an absurd amount of money off of 'Mein Kampf'

Amanda Macias/Business Insider During Hitler's nine-month imprisonment for trying to overthrow the German government in 1923, he wrote the book that would become the basis of his fortune — "Mein Kampf," or "My Struggle." Initially sales of Hitler's anti-Semitic diatribe didn't capture Germany's attention. "They sold, so-so," Dr. Pascal Trees, a research associate at the Institute for Contemporary History, said in the Smithsonian documentary "Hitler's Riches." "To be perfectly frank, it's not a...