"Mein Kampf" Reissue Debated in Germany-- Part 2

"Described as a rambling, repetitive work panned by literary critics for its pedantic style 'Mein Kampf' was drafted by Hitler in a Bavarian jail after the failed Nazi uprising in Munich of November 1923.  It was originally published in two volumes in 1925 and 1926, with later, joint editions forming a kind of Nazi handbook.

"During the Third Reich, some German cities doled out copies to Aryan newlyweds as a wedding gift.

"The book also laid the groundwork for the Holocaust stating, for instance, that Jews are and 'will remain the eternal parasite, a freeloader that, like a malignant bacterium, spreads rapidly whenever a fertile breeding ground is made available to it.

"Mein Kampf" means "My Struggle."  It was never actually banned in Germany after the war, but reprinting it was.  It is estimated that some 12.4 million copies were made of it before 1946 and hundreds of thousands are thought to still exist.

Personally, my opinion is that it is history and as such should be available for anyone.

--GreGen