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There may be no taboo greater in Germany than to republish Adolf Hitler's manifesto, "Mein Kampf." But historians in Munich are breaking it.
The Institute for Contemporary History is reprinting the murderous dictator's book and selling it in bookstores for 59 euros ($63) a copy, starting next week.
I think it's a good thing. Anybody who wants to read the book for himself should have the right to read it. If anything, it teaches critical thinking skills.
It is not appearing in its original form but is heavily annotated to expose the "lies, half-truths and vicious tirades," the institute said, behind a Nazi vision of racist hostility that ended in the deaths of tens of millions of people in World War II.
They are trying to use it for teaching, but nothing has changed in the world new tyrants are born every day.
It is not appearing in its original form but is heavily annotated to expose the "lies, half-truths and vicious tirades," the institute said, behind a Nazi vision of racist hostility that ended in the deaths of tens of millions of people in World War II.
They are trying to use it for teaching, but nothing has changed in the world new tyrants are born every day.
I think that them changing it is a crime. It's like the sanitized history in our history books.
I think what they mean is adding lots and lots of footnotes to it.
It is available on the internet, even the Wiki article about the book provides links to the German, English and other-language texts. I think the act of producing an "official" paper edition is more of an educational and political significance. Basically the Germans are saying: "Look, we are not afraid of it, and we don't mind if people do read it."
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