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Historian: Put Mein Kampf back in bookshops with refutations

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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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