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

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

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

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

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

And just in time too.