Mein Kampf to be published in Germany

[Jimbuna]

Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, with critical notes by scholars, is to be published in Germany next month - for the first time since the end of WW2.
The Institute of Contemporary History (IfZ) in Munich says it will print up to 4,000 copies with some 3,500 notes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34980701

I'm wondering if the number being printed will be enough or will there be so little interest said number will be too many

Can't say I've read it and certainly doubt I ever will.

[Betonov]

Actuall interest might be underhwelming.
Most of them will be bought by ''rebelious youth'' and ''aspiring nationalist for this week''
I predict a first week besteller, second week nobody will touch it.

Mein kampf is available on the internet (trough channels forum rules won't allow me to mention), I've read it, it was boring. I'm guessing any normal German interested in this probably done the same and got to the same conclusion.

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I've read it, it was boring.

Indeed and I thought also very repetitive. Funny thing, my copy is a english edition, from 1942, printed in England?!

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Rhodes

Indeed and I thought also very repetitive. Funny thing, my copy is a english edition, from 1942, printed in England?!

Know your enemy or sympathizer preparing for the invasion

[STEED]

The worst book I ever tried to read, now in the attic with a good ten years of dust on it.

Originally Posted by STEED

The worst book I ever tried to read, now in the attic with a good ten years of dust on it.

...now try 50 Shades of Grey and say that again!
Always wanted to read it... just like the bible and the quran but then I always find better stuff to do.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34980701

I'm wondering if the number being printed will be enough or will there be so little interest said number will be too many

Can't say I've read it and certainly doubt I ever will.

Might be a hit with certain immigrants though.

[Bilge_Rat]

My Dad had a copy, read the english version when I was a teen, never finished it though, it is poorly written, meandering, full of wild theories. Needs a good editor.

The books written like by Lenin are much easier to read.

Honestly don't know what the fuss is about, no reasonable person can read Mein Kampf and come away being indoctrinated in Nazism.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Might be a hit with certain immigrants though.

It already is quite popular in most of the ME.

On few occasions even me got greeted by locals who wanted to compliment and flatter me when they learned I am German: they told me I could feel proud to come form the country that brought up Hitler. I even recall one old man telling me the only pity of German history is that our forefathers did not manage to kill more Jews, only "16 million" (sixteen). That was in Egypt.

When I coldly blocked that kind of compliment and indicated that actually I felt insulted and disgusted, most often honest confusion was the reaction. They could honestly not imagine why I would not be proud of this great leader and his glorious deeds.

The latest terror strikes in Paris once again has been painted by all too many Arab mainstream media as a Jewish conspiracy - if they even cared to report the news. Even "moderate" LOL Al Jazeerah.

[Fahnenbohn]

" Mein Kampf " was forbidden in the Third Reich !

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn

" Mein Kampf " was forbidden in the Third Reich !

No it was not. Everyone had it in his library, though not all read it.

[Rockstar]

hmmm, all of a sudden 4,000 copies of a new edition of Mein Kampf hitting the streets. Who will purchase these books? Could this be a tracker book like 'The Catcher in the Rye" used to locate and wake up sleeper assassins?

"Mark David Chapman who murdered John Lennon, and John Hinkley the man who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan but failed were both found with copies of The Catcher in the Rye.

After killing John Lennon on December 8th, 1980, Chapman dropped the gun and proceeded to take out a copy The Catcher in the Rye, and calmly started reading, while waiting for the police to arrive. When police entered the apartment of John Hinkley, they found a copy of the book on his coffee table.

Also, Chapman told police, “If you want to know why I murdered John Lennon, read The Catcher in the Rye.”"

Jerry Fletcher

[Betonov]

Yeah right, more conspiracies.

hmmmmmmm

[welding anti tank traps on the border]

[Fahnenbohn]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Everyone had it in his library, though not all read it.

"A. Hitler's book had a so unequal value that German newspapers, during the few years following 1933, were forbidden to publish on their own initiative any passages from Mein Kampf." (Hans Fritzche declaration in Nuremberg, IMT, XVII , 141).

This book was never considered neither as a Bible nor even as a breviary.

[swamprat69er]

I found Mein Kamph to be very dry reading right along with the very popular (in some peoples' eye) Bible, which makes a good door stop.