Yeah, you have to read the unabridged, non-cucked version where they don't remove any passages. You can find the mobi/epub file easily for that version now, it's been released by the group that did the literal translation if you're interested. The versions you find on Amazon and in stores remove certain parts that make him more sympathetic. That said, the book is very dry and a good portion of it is meandering through his childhood, which is only interesting in the broad strokes and not in the minutia he presented.
He wasn't a bad writer, just very dry, and translations only make it worse. I think people should be made to read it just so they see that the man they've been convinced is the most evil person to ever exist was actually a pretty mundane, middle of the road dude in most ways.