E which the 70-year prohibition from New Year’s Day one of the world’s most famous – and reviled – books again suppressed. In Germany, given Hitler’s Mein Kampf, now out in a 2,000-page edition, where the Fuhrer’s propaganda commented upon by historians. But the project is controversial in a country still coming to terms with its past.
An edition of Mein Kampf, presented at a press conference in Nuremberg on April 24, 2012. The state of Bavaria presents the project, and the critical version of the book, which one later withdraws its support. Photo: AP
As outsiders can sometimes be difficult to understand the Germans’ relationship to Adolf Hitler. I do not mean the documentaries about the Nazi horrors are constantly broadcast on television, or the guilt that still Altas. No, instead it’s all about the spinal cord, the reaction may be encountered when Hitler unexpectedly shows up.
As when some German friends saw a swastika on the cover of a Swedish history from high school. The picture was one of several and would symbolize the Second World War, but my friends started excitedly claim that Swedish schools spread Nazi propaganda. Or like when I played up the radio reports of a friend in Berlin. It was on May 1, the spring sun was warming and the windows to the living room stood wide open. I had been down in Bavaria and visited Hitler’s Eagle nest for my employer at the time the Swedish Radio. To give a sense of a bygone era, I cut a piece from one of Hitler’s speeches. The dictator’s voice roared from the speakers, got my friend to physically shrink before he threw himself into the room and closed the computer.
– Are you crazy, he shouted. Do you know how many police it is out here because of the May Day demonstrations. And we have the windows wide!
A reaction which of course has its basis in the fact that Germany is punishable by imprisonment wearing Nazi symbols in public, or to otherwise pay tribute to Adolf Hitler.
That’s why after all not so strange that nyutgåvan of a 90 year old book arouses debate in our southern neighboring country and that it discussed for years how to manage the copyright of Mein Kampf Now go out.
Adolf Hitler with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in Munich, September 28, 1938. Photo: AP
Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf while he was in prison after a failed attempted coup 1923. The book was published two years later, and rose in popularity in line with Hitler’s rise to power. Many church congregations gave away the 800-page work to the newly married couples, and the two bands appeared in numerous leather-bound collector editions. Mein Kampf made the dictator to a rich man, and when he took his life in 1945 had the book printed in 12,450,000 copies. The copyright to fell the German state of Bavaria, who immediately banned all publishing.
However, the copyright lasts only for 70 years and as of 1 January 2016, it is open for anyone who wants to Press Hitler’s words, something with a research team at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich to give out a nytgåva subtitled “Eine kritische Edition”. The project was funded first by the state of Bavaria, but when the debate started got local politicians cold feet and the funds were withdrawn. Despite ie that it is “critical issue” and that the five historians in over 3,500 footnotes, comments and respond to Hitler’s all false claims.
Although the German Länder Ministers of Justice have attempted to prevent the project – and that book at all is allowed to be printed . Mein Kampf are not protected by copyright, it should instead be classified as hate speech called it.
In a way is thus a minor sensation that the Germans will now be able to go to bookstore and buy Mein Kampf. At the same time, it is not so much to raise eyebrows for. An interested German has long been able to buy the book in book shop, or read it on the internet – for free. To say nothing of the rest of the world where it has been sold and reprinted in many years.
But that does not stop many Germans from reacting with spinal cord when Hitler is mentioned. It does not change an expired copyright.
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