Question: As usual, Tokyo being destroyed - this time by the Neptune Men in their flying saucers. Buildings exploding...but one particular building has a large picture of Adolf Hitler giving the Nazi salute and with the wrong wording of Mine Kampf (instead of the correct Mein Kampf)...why was this particular building model constructed? (01:03:27)
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Answer: Your question was intriguing, so I did a little Internet research. While there's plenty of conjecture, nobody seems to know what this is about. There is some reference to Hitler's "Mein Kampf" being published in Japan for the first time in the early 1960s, around the time the film was made. Some speculate it was some type of advertising for the book (early product placement?) while others believe it could be a symbolic act of blowing up Hitler's ideals and could explain why it was misspelled.
raywest ★
Ray's answer on the subject is already exhaustive. I'll add for further clarification that the advertising apparently was for "Den blodiga tiden", or, well, Mein Kampf, Erwin Leiser's documentary about the infamous book. I can't find the primary source for it, but it appears credible since the release date of the documentary in Japan was in January of the same year. Also, I do think that given the egregious misspelling, someone should post it also in the mistakes section, even if it was not made by the moviemakers, technically.
Sammo ★