Mein Kampf hits stores in tense Germany

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Mein Kampf hits stores in tense Germany
By Damien McGuinness
Berlin correspondent

BERLIN: -- It's one of the most talked about publications of the year. It's not a new book. And it's not even a well-written book. But Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler, which hits German bookshops for the first time in 70 years on Friday, is certainly attracting attention.

Hitler's anti-Semitic tirade is seen as the forerunner to the Holocaust. But that is also why historians want it republished.

Hitler wrote it mostly while in prison in the mid-1920s, and academics say it helps explain the Nazis' crazed ideology when they came to power less than a decade later.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35242523


-- BBC 2016-01-08

[elgordo38]

I can hardly wait for our singing PM to bring out his version of "Mein Coup"

[elgordo38]

I can hardly wait for our singing PM to bring out his version of "Mein Coup"

[wabothai]

Can believe it, lots of parallels between the 30's and recent days.

[johna]

So the Germans have got a DIY manual on how to solve their refugee problem

[OMGImInPattaya]

And just in time too.