The book was banned at a time when the occupying powers (and many Germans) feared that Nazism might still to exert a distabilising attraction. Germany was then a poor and humbled country, and the Nazi outlook was far from discredited.
Today Nazism no longer exerts any attraction, so it`s become a historical oddity that Germans, who vigorously pursue self castigation in the form of an obsessive preoccupation with this period in our history, continue to deny themselve access to one of its key original documents. |
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