Mein Kampf causes controversy in Italy as copies given away with daily newspaper

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Mein Kampf causes controversy in Italy as copies given away with daily newspaper



ROME: -- An Italian newspaper has come under fire for distributing free copies of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’

Centre-right daily Il Giornale offered the annotated work to readers who bought a book on German history – available as a supplement with Saturday’s edition.

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi labelled the giveaway “squalid” and offered his solidarity with the Jewish community.

The newspaper, which is owned by the family of former Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, justified the decision by arguing it would allow readers to “study what is evil to avoid its return.”

In the editorial, Alessandro Sallusti wrote: “The concerns of our friends of the Italian-Jewish community, who always have and always will see us by their side… deserve all our respect.”

Upon the copyright expiry of Mein Kampf this year, Germany allowed only an annotated, critical edition of the work to be published. The country’s incitement laws restrict the publication of other versions.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-06-13

[ezzra]

What next? free copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion with every espresso?

or maybe Stalin's favorite nightstand book The Prince, by Niccolo Machiaelli,

or how about The manifesto of the communist party by karl Max and fridrich Engels?

after all, the people has the right to know about history, right?.....

[billd766]

There is also a book around by Julius Caesar called my best friend Marcus "Brutus" Aurelius.

I believe that there is also a "Dummies Guide to Backstabbing" to be published soon.

[hawker9000]

Actually, maybe this isn't such a bad idea. Neo-Nazi cranks are definitely still crawling around in the woodwork. Some even pop up here on TVF from time to time. Holocaust deniers, Jew-haters, etc. People need to understand the malignancy they carry.

[Kiwiken]

Plenty on here who ask for a war against Semitic races. Found the book a load of drivel.

[hawker9000]

Plenty on here who ask for a war against Semitic races. Found the book a load of drivel.

Yes, it definitely is. 'Right up there with Das Kapital. But their respective wild-eyed, die-hard, thoroughly brainwashed proponents exist to this day nevertheless.