Mein Kampf to be published in Germany

Catfish · 12-02-15, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Betonov

Imagine 1000 sexual deviants like in 50 shades, another 1000 murders, another 1000 despots in war, some incest and one hippie and you have the Bible. The best thing about the Bible is how un-holly it can get

But then the self-appointed christs with the biggest mouths here never read it. I am sure those of the "Bible belt" do likewise

Betonov · 12-02-15, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

But then the self-appointed christs with the biggest mouths here never read it. I am sure those of the "Bible belt" do likewise

Selective hearing and quote mining. The Bible can be anthing from a rough history book to a masonry manual. Just depends what chapter you read.

Bilge_Rat · 12-02-15, 08:21 AM

I have also read parts of the Bible, another book in need of a good editor. Thought the TV version was more entertaining.

Skybird · 12-02-15, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Betonov

Selective hearing and quote mining. The Bible can be anthing from a rough history book to a masonry manual. Just depends what chapter you read.

"Just depends on..."

Well, that tells all about this book's quality one needs to know.

Hitler also is a victim of selective quote mining. His actings and behaviour can be seen as anything from extremely charming with the ladies, to rough and racist with the Bolschewists and Jews. Just depends what historical anecdotes you quote.

Nobody is a noble man already just because he sometimes chooses to forego a mean trick.

Betonov · 12-02-15, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

Hitler also is a victim of selective quote mining. His actings and behaviour can be seen as anything from extremely charming with the ladies, to rough and racist with the Bolschewists and Jews. Just depends what historical anecdotes you quote.

you don't get a nation to follow you into death without being extremely charismatic.
Problem with Hitler is that millions of dead are imposible to quote mine.

kraznyi_oktjabr · 12-02-15, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Rhodes

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

There is a copy of Finnish language edition (Taisteluni) in my parents' bookshelf. Haven't read it and most like never will.

My greatuncle got it as Christmas present in 1944. Mother's family had custom of giving books as gifts. Oldest books I'm aware of are from 1850s.

Bilge_Rat · 12-02-15, 10:09 AM

talking about Hitler's mental state, much has been written about him, I think the consensus now is that he was lucid until 1943-44 when his mental state and health really started to deteriorate.

But that is not the impression you get from reading "Mein Kampf", again it has been close to 40 years since I read it, but my overriding impression at the time was that the writer had serious mental issues and he wrote the book in the mid-1920s. Releasing the book again will IMHO do more to shatter the Hitler myth than to bolster it.

Aktungbby · 12-02-15, 11:30 AM

ODDLY In the United States, the book can be found at almost any community library and can be bought, sold and traded in bookshops.The U.S. government seized the copyright in September 1942 during the Second World War under the Trading with the Enemy Act and in 1979, Houghton Mifflin, the U.S. publisher of the book, bought the rights from the government. More than 15,000 copies are sold a year.

perhaps not so oddly...Mein Kampf was widely available and growing in popularity in Turkey, even to the point where it became a bestseller, selling up to 100,000 copies in just two months in 2005. In theRussian Federation, Mein Kampf has been published at least three times since 1992; the Russian text is also available on websites. In 2006 the Public Chamber of Russia proposed banning the book. In 2009 St. Petersburg's branch of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs requested to remove an annotated and hyper-linked Russian translation of the book from a historiography web site. On 13 April 2010, it was announced that Mein Kampf is outlawed on grounds of extremism promotion. Tell that to the Crimeans and Ukrainians[wiki] The worthy tome (obviously) has been published in India since 1928 and sold over 100,000 copies. But there's no accounting for taste on the subcontinent...

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,066 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	A new bavarian 'cottage" industry ODDLY In the United States, the book can be found at almost any community library and can be bought, sold and traded in bookshops.The U.S. government seized the copyright in September 1942 during the Second World War under the Trading with the Enemy Act and in 1979, Houghton Mifflin, the U.S. publisher of the book, bought the rights from the government. More than 15,000 copies are sold a year. perhaps not so oddly...Mein Kampf was widely available and growing in popularity in Turkey, even to the point where it became a bestseller, selling up to 100,000 copies in just two months in 2005. In theRussian Federation, Mein Kampf has been published at least three times since 1992; the Russian text is also available on websites. In 2006 the Public Chamber of Russia proposed banning the book. In 2009 St. Petersburg's branch of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs requested to remove an annotated and hyper-linked Russian translation of the book from a historiography web site. On 13 April 2010, it was announced that Mein Kampf is outlawed on grounds of extremism promotion. Tell that to the Crimeans and Ukrainians[wiki] The worthy tome (obviously) has been published in India since 1928 and sold over 100,000 copies. But there's no accounting for taste on the subcontinent... __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!