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Munich court stops 'Mein Kampf' reprint
Published: 9 Mar 12 08:33 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120309-41233.html
A German court has banned a British publisher from printing extracts of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf," upholding a ruling that doing so would break copyright laws.
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The court in the city of Munich ruled in favour of the southern state of Bavaria, which holds the rights to all publications from the main Nazi publishing house and had sought to block the book's appearance.
"He has been dead for 70 years but Adolf Hitler is still keeping the courts busy," the regional court in Munich said in a statement.
Confirming an earlier decision from January, the court concluded: "To shorten a work and add explanations and comments does not give rights over the... published original work."
McGee said he "regretted the ruling and would appeal to a higher court".
"We respect the decision of the regional court and will refrain from putting 'the unreadable book' - a scientific essay about Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' with quotes from this work - onto news-stands," he said.
"At the same time, we believe the court's decision was wrong."
"Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle"), written when Hitler was languishing in a Bavarian prison, combines elements of autobiography and sets out his views on Aryan "racial purity", his hatred of Jews and his opposition to communism.
It is not banned as such in Germany but since the end of World War II, Bavaria - which holds the rights until 70 years after the dictator's death in 2015 - has not permitted reprints.
McGee has been involved in disputed projects in Germany before. In 2009, he caused a stir when he began selling reprints of the Nazi propaganda newspaper Völkischer Beobachter (People's Observer), again with comments from historians.
In that case, Bavaria launched a legal challenge to the series but succeeded only in blocking the sale of editions from after the war's outbreak in 1939.
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It's ridiculous that a book outlining the ideology of a regime responsible for WW2 and the immeasurable death and misery of that period should not be freely available. It should be studied in secondary level school and above by all children.
I want @KLaus Stoiber to feel guilty for WWII so he does not notice my crimes!
I want @Freechoice to visit a jail and see if there are prisoners inside and conclude that Germany is being overrun by prisoners.
Hello. This is the New World Order speaking!
When I read Mein Kampf and Hitler wrote about the need to appeal to the ignorance of the masses, I now realize he was claire-voyant and speaking of you two.
Hello. THis is the New World Order speaking!
The New World Order fears a strong germany, just admit your fear. Oneday Germany will rise and take its rightful place in the world. Germans will advance to such an extent that we will colonise distant planets, and continue technological advances that we are so very famous for
The Other day I called you the "vanguard of the fourth Reich " ,
thank you so much for proving my point.
As the fuhrer of the New World Order, I have learned that you are actually paid by The Local . De to say stoopid things to provoke lots of "comments" and attract more readers.
I am asking my minions now to investigate your tax returns.
Also, I am taking away your 4th Reich Secret Decoder Ring. (Thanks for the insight to Englsh Ted ;) )
Finally, since Germans are slowly becoming extinct and are not reproducing at replacement levels, you better hurry up and build that rocket ship. Auf Gehts!!! Los!!!
And, if you see John Carter en route to those distant planets, tell him I am waiting to hear from him!
All Hail the Fuhrer of the New World Order!!!
And Schwab Hall does ROCK!
"And Schwab Hall does ROCK! "
That should be Rock and Droll :-)
It was the most unreadable, most uninspiring pile of dog-poo I have ever read in my life. The words "International Jew" appear more times than the word p*nis in Mr. Garrrison's novel. All I took away from it was that Hitler was an extremely uninteresting man. How the Germans lapped it up, I'll never know.
I guess every racist KKK biker and skinhead has a copy next to his bible. If so, it proves they either can't read or are simply too lazy. Maybe they should legalize it so people will see what a total crock it really is.
For what it's worth, the DVD is available on Leni Riefenstahl who created / filmed "Triumph of the Will" and other Nazi propoganda. It was originally released in the 1980s but is still fascinating for insight into Adolph and his gang and "appealing to the ignorance of the masses."