Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Reprinted Kampf

From the DW:
"Germany's main Jewish organization approves publication of annotated 'Mein Kampf'"

A Jewish group in Germany has given its approval to the publication of a version of Hitler's manifesto with scholarly annotations. The book is scheduled to be reprinted in its new edition in January.  The Central Council of Jews in Germany said it approves of a specially annotated version of Adolf Hitler's notorious autobiographical manifesto, a month before the book is set to become part of the public domain. The two-volume "Mein Kampf" outlined Hitler's political philosophy and contained numerous anti-Semitic remarks about Jews that some historians argue foreshadow the Nazi leader's plans to eradicate the ethnic group. Originally published in 1925 and 1926 respectively, the two volumes have not been published in Germany since the end of World War II. However, the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich said it plans to publish a critical, annotated version of "Mein Kampf" in January. In an interview with the German daily newspaper "Handelsblatt," Josef Schuster, head of the Jewish organization, said the publication of "Mein Kampf" could prove valuable, but also that it needed to be monitored. "Knowledge of 'Mein Kampf' is still important to explain National Socialism and the Holocaust," Schuster said, referring to the political ideology of the Nazi Party and the genocide that led to the deaths of some six million Jews. He went on to say it was important that authorities prevented the spread of unannotated copies of the book. People in Germany who publish unedited reprints of the book face charges of inciting racial hatred - a crime in the country that can carry up to five years in jail.
 
 
^ I have read "Mein Kampf" and it is not a very intelligent book. Even if you take out the anti-Semitic and anti-foreigner rants the book doesn't "flow." While anyone who read it in the 1920s, 1930s or the 1940s knew that Hitler was going to kill the Jews (his message was clear as day) his "message" holds no real meaning in today's society. It is just the scattered thoughts of a dead dictator who clearly wasn't a writer the say way he wasn't an artist. There have been Neo-Nazis in Germany since the Nazi defeat in 1945 and that was before the Germans had access to "Mein Kampf." I don't see the reprinted book bringing a new surge of Neo-Nazis. The refugee crisis in the EU, the poor economy, etc could but not this book. ^



http://www.dw.com/en/germanys-main-jewish-organization-approves-publication-of-annotated-mein-kampf/a-18889894

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