Should Germans Read ‘Mein Kampf’?

[mota bhai 2,675]

By PETER ROSS RANGE

JULY 7, 2014

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Hitler wrote the first draft of his deeply anti-Semitic, race-based ideological screed in 1924, while in prison for leading a failed coup; by the time of his death 21 years later, it had sold 10 million copies.

Since then ... its copyright holder, the state of Bavaria, has refused to allow its republication, creating an aura of taboo around the book.

All that is about to change. Bavaria’s copyright expires at the end of 2015; after that, anyone can publish the book: a quality publisher, a mass-market pulp house, even a neo-Nazi group.

The release of “Mein Kampf” into Germany’s cultural bloodstream is sure to be a sensational moment.

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This publishing event will shape contemporary politics and feed Germany’s deep-rooted postwar pacifism. Germany’s involvement — or noninvolvement — in international crises like Kosovo, Afghanistan, Libya and, most recently, Mali is profoundly influenced by such impassioned debates.

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Racing to be first to publish the book is the Institute for Contemporary History, a noted center in Munich for the study of Nazism, which has a five-scholar team at work on an annotated “critical edition” of Hitler’s 700-page ramble.

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The book’s extensive notations, he added, will “encircle” Hitler’s story line with a “collage” of commentary to demystify and decode it, an alternative subtext and historical context that will strip it of its allegedly hypnotizing power.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/opinion/should-germans-read-mein-kampf.html

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yes.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Yes.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

They should be able to read it if they want to. Since MBD is on an ego trip over Germany playing in the World Cup final, I bet he'd agree.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

They should be able to read it if they want to. Since MBD is on an ego trip over Germany playing in the World Cup final, I bet he'd agree.

Mein Kampf? Pfft. I think we ought to write a new book about the recent Goalecaust.

[Operator 1,927]

Will Holocaust jokes ever really be acceptable?

Edited July 9, 2014 by Operator

[mota bhai 2,675]

Will Holocaust jokes ever really be acceptable?

They've become quite common.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Will Holocaust jokes ever really be acceptable?

Ask Rabbi Miller!

http://www.google.co.jp/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CBYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Frabbi-jason-miller%2Fwhen-is-holocaust-humor-acceptable_b_2805169.html&ei=bHK9U5KbI4Pm8AWWgoGgCg&usg=AFQjCNG8jiny3APcxMTRBrN1-IVPoC_dEQ&sig2=8W0n2_L-cvYPMHDAhiWp6g

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

google "mein Kampf pdf"

oh hey look! A few thousand copies somehow are available now for the low price of zero... I suggest the one at the internet archive.

edit: Holy ####### 1000 pages.. never mind.

Edited July 9, 2014 by OnMyWayID

[Dakine10 5,452]

Should they have the right to read it - yes.

Should they actually read it - probably not.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Should they have the right to read it - yes.

Should they actually read it - probably not.

I don't see why anyone should.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

google "mein Kampf pdf"

oh hey look! A few thousand copies somehow are available now for the low price of zero... I suggest the one at the internet archive.

edit: Holy ####### 1000 pages.. never mind.

Hitler gave new meaning to windbag.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Everyone should read Mein Kampf.

[mota bhai 2,675]

why?

[JohnR! 5,495]

Because it would give you good insight as to the rhetoric used by politicians today. Perhaps if more people read it, the likes of Palin and Bachmann, and other extremists would not find much of a following amongst the sheep...