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Polish court punishes 'Mein Kampf' publisher
By The Associated Press and Haaretz Service
Tags: Mein Kampf, anti-Semistism 

A Polish court on Monday convicted a man who published Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf of copyright infringement and given him a three-month suspended prison sentence.

A court in the southwestern city of Wroclaw also fined the man 10,000 zlotys ($3,200) on Monday.

The man, identified only as Marek S. was sued, in line with Polish privacy laws, by the German state of Bavaria, which holds the rights to the book.
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The defendant published 20,000 copies of Mein Kampf in 2005 without seeking Bavaria's permission. His motive was profit, he said.

He will have to serve the prison term if he tries to publish more copies in the next two years.

Mein Kampf is banned in Germany and Bavaria is seeking to block it in other countrires for fear it fears it could be misued by right-wing extremists.

The 1925 book expresses Hitler's disdain for his father, as well as his desire to exterminate Jews and occupy territory in Eastern Europe.


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      1.   COPYRIGHT?He could have published in any Moslem country 02:50  |  PETER SM 26/05/09
      2.   peter sm 1 09:14  |  potobac 26/05/09
      3.   POTOBAC Lots of Mein Kampf copies available in Moslem countries 10:17  |  PETER SM 26/05/09
      4.   peter sm 3 19:52  |  potobac 26/05/09
      5.   POTOBAC then you can show how they pay them 03:43  |  PETER SM 27/05/09
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