The first reprint of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in Germany since World War II [1945] has proved a surprise bestseller, heading for its sixth print run, its publisher said Tuesday.
The Institute of Contemporary History of Munich (IfZ) said around 85,000 copies of the new annotated version of the Nazi leader's anti-Semitic manifesto had flown off the shelves since its release last January.
However, the respected institute said that far from promoting far-right ideology, the publication had enriched a debate on the renewed rise of "authoritarian political views" in contemporary Western society.
http://ift.tt/2j0BJb9
The Bavarian state government's closely held copyright expired in 2016.
OCDO common-taters frequently disparage as conspiracy theory concepts with which they disagree. Hitler built a conspiracy theory of Semites and Bolsheviks.
George Orwell commented extensively in his letters. (Orwell, George. "Mein Kampf" review, reprinted in The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol 2., Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, eds., Harourt Brace Jovanovich 1968)
The Wikipedia of course has an extensive article and informative. It includes; "In his 1943 book The Menace of the Herd, Austrian scholar Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn[26] described Hitler's ideas in Mein Kampf and elsewhere as "a veritable reductio ad absurdum of 'progressive' thought"[27] and betraying "a curious lack of original thought" that shows Hitler offered no innovative or original ideas but was merely "a virtuoso of commonplaces which he may or may not repeat in the guise of a 'new discovery.'"[28] Hitler's stated aim, Kuehnelt-Leddihn writes, is to quash individualism in furtherance of political goals: ...[my emphasis]"
The Institute of Contemporary History of Munich (IfZ) said around 85,000 copies of the new annotated version of the Nazi leader's anti-Semitic manifesto had flown off the shelves since its release last January.
However, the respected institute said that far from promoting far-right ideology, the publication had enriched a debate on the renewed rise of "authoritarian political views" in contemporary Western society.
http://ift.tt/2j0BJb9
The Bavarian state government's closely held copyright expired in 2016.
OCDO common-taters frequently disparage as conspiracy theory concepts with which they disagree. Hitler built a conspiracy theory of Semites and Bolsheviks.
George Orwell commented extensively in his letters. (Orwell, George. "Mein Kampf" review, reprinted in The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol 2., Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, eds., Harourt Brace Jovanovich 1968)
The Wikipedia of course has an extensive article and informative. It includes; "In his 1943 book The Menace of the Herd, Austrian scholar Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn[26] described Hitler's ideas in Mein Kampf and elsewhere as "a veritable reductio ad absurdum of 'progressive' thought"[27] and betraying "a curious lack of original thought" that shows Hitler offered no innovative or original ideas but was merely "a virtuoso of commonplaces which he may or may not repeat in the guise of a 'new discovery.'"[28] Hitler's stated aim, Kuehnelt-Leddihn writes, is to quash individualism in furtherance of political goals: ...[my emphasis]"
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