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Historian: Put Mein Kampf back in bookshops with refutations
By DPA

A German historian has called for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic hate book Mein Kampf to be reprinted and put back on sale in German bookshops with notes on its errors, saying this would be preferable to a flood of unrefuted editions.

Horst Moeller, director of the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich, said Monday this would be better than waiting until 2015 when anybody could publish it after copyright in Germany lapses on the book.

The newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung quoted him saying it would be better to issue a edition now, with footnotes explaining page by page how Hitler was wrong.
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The alternative would be a rush of cheap commercial editions without comments when the 1924 book enters the public domain 70 years after Hitler's death.

The legal rights to the book are held by the Bavarian Ministry of Finance, which seized all the Nazi Party publishing assets after their 1945 defeat.

For decades, Munich has used those powers to ban any re-publication of the book, which was revered by the Nazis.

A ministry spokesman confirmed that it still never gave permission for the book to be printed in Germany or abroad, although historians may quote from the text for scholarly purposes.

Moeller said he had been also rebuffed by the German Foreign Ministry, which told him Germany's image would suffer if the book were reprinted.

Mein Kampf sets out Hitler's claim that "Aryans" were the founders of human culture and Jews its spoilers as well as his denunciation of "inferior races" and call to seize lebensraum or territory in eastern Europe.

Hitler's book has been re-published in several countries after local copyrights expired
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  1.   Boycott Israel but not Hitler!??!?! 20:02  |  Alain 16/07/07
  2.   Good idea 20:05  |  Gili 16/07/07
  3.   alain 1 20:28  |  get real 16/07/07
  4.   I agree 20:40  |  C McCoy 16/07/07
  5.   Mein Kampf 20:44  |  Marco 16/07/07
  6.   it is 20:50  |  wh 16/07/07
  7.   Do the same with al-Qur`an 20:59  |  JB 16/07/07
  8.   Other issues besides hate in Mein Kampf 21:03  |  Mark Klein, M.D. 16/07/07
  9.   He`s Right 21:15  |  Yosemite 16/07/07
  10.   Anyone can buy this book on Amazon.com!q 21:15  |  Mice 16/07/07
  11.   al-Qur`an 21:21  |  JW 16/07/07
  12.   Mein Kampf is very confusing and boring to read 21:23  |  Glorfindel 16/07/07
  13.   do the same with the Old Testament and Talmud 21:30  |  JP 16/07/07
  14.   JB what about the Bible with its 50 versions 21:35  |  Samir Salameh 16/07/07
  15.   It should have *never* been published... 21:38  |  fances 16/07/07
  16.   Mein Kampf 21:49  |  Fish 16/07/07
  17.   Place it right next to Das Kapital 21:49  |  Bill 16/07/07
  18.   The subject is Mein Kampf there is no need 21:54  |  Samir Salameh 16/07/07
  19.   #14 Do you even know how to frame an intelligent thought? 22:26  |  McQueen 16/07/07
  20.   No. 17 Bill 23:02  |  steve 16/07/07
  21.   Mein Kampf is available in the US 23:05  |  steve 16/07/07
  22.   To Mcqueen Read His Comments 23:06  |  Samir Salameh 16/07/07
  23.   Mein Kampf and Tosefta 23:09  |  Danite 16/07/07
  24.   The book is not dead so it must be refuted 23:15  |  Efox 16/07/07
  25.   re: Samir Salameh 23:19  |  Efox 16/07/07
  26.   re: JP 23:22  |  Efox 16/07/07
  27.   re: Glorfindel 23:24  |  Efox 16/07/07
  28.   publish it 23:24  |  craigd 16/07/07
  29.   re: Samir Salameh 23:31  |  Efox 16/07/07
  30.   Internet 23:32  |  Brenda 16/07/07
  31.   Efox are you Ok 23:38  |  Samir Salameh 16/07/07
  32.   Uh gee folks..... 00:06  |  tadchase 17/07/07
  33.   Mein Kampf is the master work of a monster 00:43  |  Mark Lincoln 17/07/07
  34.   I hear you Glorfindel 00:46  |  Mark Lincoln 17/07/07
  35.   wh # 6 - who woulda guessed? 00:55  |  ChanahS 17/07/07
  36.   on media and messages 00:56  |  Joel Weltman 17/07/07
  37.   On Disagreeable Ideas 00:59  |  Joel Weltman 17/07/07
  38.   #33, it is much more trivial 01:24  |  Fritz 17/07/07
  39.   How do you like this apple? 01:30  |  Joel Weltman 17/07/07
  40.   Efox In your View one Billion 01:41  |  Samir Salameh 17/07/07
  41.   #35 chanahS 02:47  |  wh 17/07/07
  42.   Samir Salameh #18 02:53  |  Joel Weltman 17/07/07
  43.   He`s absolutely right. 03:07  |  Deborah 17/07/07
  44.   freedom of speach 04:05  |  Shmuelshachor 17/07/07
  45.   Hate groups and Islamic states have been publishing it for years 04:32  |  PETER SM 17/07/07
  46.   Yes, read and refute. 05:59  |  Joan Stuchner 17/07/07
  47.   SAMIR SALAMEH IS RIGHT 06:17  |  juan 17/07/07
  48.   If this story were less-timely 06:50  |  greg 17/07/07
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