In London Murphy contacted his literary agent , Robert Somerville , and they found an interested publisher in Heinemann . However , they realized that translation rights in the United Kingdom and its dependencies already belonged to Hurst and Blackett . Furthermore , they did not have a manuscript in hand . So Murphy was convinced to return to Germany to secure both a copy of the manuscript and permission to publish it , but on the date he was scheduled fly to Berlin . he was denied an entry visa and told he would be wasting his time . Therefore , his wife , Mary , decided to make the trip , finally crossing the Channel on November 6 , 1938 . In Berlin she was unable to schedule any appointments with the Propaganda Ministry until November 10 . This meant she was in Berlin during the infamous Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9 . The next day she met with Heinrich Bohle at the Propaganda Ministry , but could not get anywhere . She pursued other contacts within the Ministry but came up empty handed . Finally , without any more money and living with her ex-house keeper , she decided to visit one of James ' former secretaries whom he had employed as a typist . To her great relief , she still had one of the handwritten copies of the James Murphy translation . She left Berlin on November 20
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Mein Kampf in English