Is It Really A Good Idea To Start Peddling Mein Kampf In Germany Again?

[youngmafbog]

Or, since the Germans are achieving by stealth what they failed to do in two World Wars does it not matter any more?

http://news.sky.com/story/1618909/hitlers-mein-kampf-on-sale-again-in-germany

[retrocop]

What is happening in Germany at the moment will not require My Struggle to fire the imagination or outrage of decent Germans I am sure. It is a history book written by a dangerous deranged lunatic with a dream. The Germans know that and can't be any more contrite for what their country was guilty of in History. I have an unexpurgated version that I could copy and give to German friends. It wouldn't morph them into Nazis !

[dannyk13]

I remember an English version available here during wartime.

[naomi24]

Little point in continuing the ban. If people want the book they'll get it. It's available in this country.

[ichkeria]

Quite correct retrocop.
I am staggered always though by the belief among many that somehow the Germans have not moved on from the mistakes of two World Wars.
I hope and trust that the events currently unfolding there will not see the rebirth of Nazism or anything similar, but the idea that the actual national or governmental ethos hitherto has been to conquer Europe by stealth is mindboggling, and shows a complete misunderstanding of Germany.

[naomi24]

//I hope and trust that the events currently unfolding there will not see the rebirth of Nazism or anything similar//

Me too, but I'm not holding my breath that it won't eventually come from unexpected quarters. None so far right as radical Islam.

[youngmafbog]

//the belief among many that somehow the Germans have not moved on from the mistakes of two World Wars//

Oh they have. It's now takeover by stealth in the form of the USSR.

[ichkeria]

"Oh they have. It's now takeover by stealth in the form of the USSR. "

Pardon??

[youngmafbog]

The Germans no longer need to use Panzers. Obergruppenführer Murkel is marching through Europe taking it over by stealth using a vehicle more commonly known as the EU.

[ToraToraTora]

perhaps they should peddle Das Kapital for balance.

[ToraToraTora]

YMB: ".......vehicle more commonly known as the EU" with enthusiastic support of the usual bunch of collaborators!

[KARL]

Who is Murkel ?

[Peter Pedant]

o yeah great
lets start censorship again
and peddle the idea with - of course we will only ban books we dont like

certainly not for books by pussy cats like David Cameron ....

[Peter Pedant]

// perhaps they should peddle Das Kapital for balance.//

I wasnt sure that this was ever banned

One way to get mega bucks is to have your books banned
Peter Wright's spycatcher made him a lot of money

so much so that a lesser author Nigel West tried desperately to get one of his own books banned ( unsuccessful )

Romans have a lot of practice in banning books - index librorum - and so on and I remember having to get a master's chitty to read Voltaire's Candide. My father a liberal prot was shocked ....

[Peter Pedant]

// Who is Murkel ?//

um no - wait - yeah


she's that shadowy german reichskanzler

actually I think she might be "Bundeskanzlerin"

[bazwillrun]

"a dangerous deranged lunatic with a dream"

1939 Adolf Hitler >------- 2016 -Adolf Merkel.......

same ambition, different M.O.