IN THE NEWS: Bavaria mulls publication of "Mein Kampf" touting socialism

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IN THE NEWS: Bavaria mulls publication of "Mein Kampf" but Bavaria's socialist government worries that readers will realize that the word "socialist" appears in glowing/droning terms throughout the book, and that people will realize that the word "Nazi" does not appear once in the book, and that Nazis did not call themselves "Nazis" nor "Fascists" and that they called themselves "socialists," and that the word "swastika" never appears in the book, but that the word "Hakenkreuz" (hooked cross) appears in the book because the symbol was a type of cross and was used to represent crossed S-letters for their "socialism" (see the work of the historian Dr. Rex Curry). http://rexcurry.net 

 

For the entirety of Germany’s postwar history, Adolf Hitler’s infamous manifesto of hate, Mein Kampf, has been out of print. Thanks to the Bavarian government and the vagaries of German copyright law, however, that might be about to change.

 

The German state of Bavaria owns the book’s copyright, a privilege it has used to prevent publication of the foundational document of Nazism since the end of World War II.

 

Markus Soeder, Bavarian state finance minister, said that the move is aimed at “demystifying” the defining text of Nazism, reports the BBC. E.g. demystifying what they actually called themselves and what the symbol represented?

 

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/26/mein-kampf-to-return-to-german-bookshelves/#ixzz1tA4DFZri