'Mein Kampf' To Be Republished In Germany

Hugh Pickens writes "Jacob Heilbrunn reports in The Atlantic that Germany is taking a new step toward what is often called 'normalization' as the state of Bavaria has announced that in 2015 it will publish Hitler's Mein Kampf, banned in Germany since World War II. In announcing the publication of the book, Bavarian finance minister Markus Soeder says that he wants to contribute to the 'demystification' of it. In 2015, the Bavarian state's copyright to the book will expire and the idea is to publish a scholarly version that will help stem its appeal for commercial publishers. The book is not banned by law in Germany, but Bavaria has used ownership of the copyright to prevent publication of German editions since 1945. Copyright restrictions stop at the end of 2015, 70 years after Hitler's death. By publishing in 2015 before the expiry of the copyright, Bavaria hopes to make future German editions as 'commercially unattractive' as possible. 'We want to make clear what nonsense is in there,' says Soeder and to show 'what a worldwide catastrophe this dangerous body of thought led to.'"

Re:The English version is good for this

[Gib7]

Sort of like the Skeptics Annotated Bible ?

Re:You know who else...

[million_monkeys]

Why can't we make it through a single story without someone bringing up Nazis?

Re:The English version is good for this

[Grayhand]

Wait a minute, blond haired, blue eyed muscular men aren't serious stud muffins? You mean Hitler was lying? Next thing you'll be telling me "The Producers" was a comedy and "Spring Time For Hitler" was played for laughs and he wasn't the vaguely gay character they represented him as. I mean what are you to do when your niece that you were sleeping with commits suicide? I guess after you kill a few million people, and are responsible for the deaths of tens of millions, you marry the maid and blow your brains out in a bunker. I can totally understand why the skin heads idolize him, they are morons.

Re:Demystification

[Black Parrot]

If a German politician wants to end a discussion quickly he will just mention that the Nazis did it that way.

That works on the internet, too.

Re:Copyright..

[Black Parrot]

The mere fact that a book written by someone nearly 70 years ago is still under copyright is ridiculous

Count on Slashdot to turn a story about naziism into an anti-copyright rant.

Re:Heil

[Anonymous Coward]

The word is "foreword", not "forward".

Posted anonymously on account of being a grammar nazi (pun not intended).

Re:well, on reflection, it's not a real godwin

[TheRaven64]

You know who else published Mein Kampf? The NAZIs!

Re:Heil

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, what kind of backword thinking is that?

Posted anonymously on account of being a pedantic semite.