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Germany’s Outdated, Wrongheaded Ban on Nazi Books Like ‘Mein Kampf’ - The Atlantic by Heather Horn There’s something deeply distasteful about the news out of Germany this week. It’s not that the latest edition of a British publisher’s excerpts of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf has sold 250,000 copies in just a few days. It’s that the Bavarian state government, which technically owns the copyright, is considering fighting it. Hitler’s ideological dumping ground of an autobiography isn’t technically banned in Germany. But it might as well be. The finance ministry of the state of Bavaria, in the south, holds the copyrights to Mein Kampf and has simply refused to let it be republished. It’s done the same for other Nazi works. This same British publisher, Peter McGee of Albertas Ltd., reprinted parts of Nazi newspapers in 2009 with accompanying historical commentary, and the Bavarian government, holding the copyrights to those papers as well, had police seize the publications.

Germany’s Outdated, Wrongheaded Ban on Nazi Books Like ‘Mein Kampf’ - The Atlantic

by Heather Horn

There’s something deeply distasteful about the news out of Germany this week. It’s not that the latest edition of a British publisher’s excerpts of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf has sold 250,000 copies in just a few days. It’s that the Bavarian state government, which technically owns the copyright, is considering fighting it.

Hitler’s ideological dumping ground of an autobiography isn’t technically banned in Germany. But it might as well be. The finance ministry of the state of Bavaria, in the south, holds the copyrights to Mein Kampf and has simply refused to let it be republished. It’s done the same for other Nazi works. This same British publisher, Peter McGee of Albertas Ltd., reprinted parts of Nazi newspapers in 2009 with accompanying historical commentary, and the Bavarian government, holding the copyrights to those papers as well, had police seize the publications.

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