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Hitler's Mein Kampf to go on sale in Germany in 2015 - Will historians publish before Neo-nazis dailymail.co.uk :: 2010-02-06
Adolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf (My Struggle) is to be published in Germany after being forbidden there since the end of World War II. The book's copyright, held by the state of Bavaria, expires in 2015 (70 years after the death of its author in the fuehrerbunker). The Nazi philosophy is punishable by fines and imprisonment in Germany, but Munich's Institute of Contemporary History hopes to release an annotated version of Mein Kampf with historical notes - project supported by Jewish leaders. Mein Kampf sold more than the Bible in the Third Reich, making Hitler a multi-millionaire.
Hitler's Mein Kampf a bestseller on the streets of Bangladeshi capital Dhaka bbc.co.uk :: 2009-11-27
Booksellers showing off their wares amid the heavy traffic in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, have discovered an unusual best-seller.
Adolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf is selling as well as Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. The street vendors, mostly young boys, compete with beggars to get the attention of motorists. Recently, Mein Kampf - which has a constant demand - did remarkably well because many bought the book to give it away as an Eid present. "For some reason Hitler's book is all the rage among educated people... Many people have seen Hitler in films and want to know more about him," 15yo Mabul told.
Japanese manga version of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf animenewsnetwork.com :: 2009-09-08
The Japanese publisher East Press has sold 45,000 copies of the manga version of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Editor Kōsuke Maruo explained why his company created the manga version of Mein Kampf: "It is a famous book, but there are few who have read it. I think it is [studying] material for knowing Hitler, a man synonymous with 'devil,' and what sort of thinking created that level of tragedy." While his company had no expectations on the manga's sales, it has sold 45,000 copies - much above the 35,000-copy average of the other books in the Manga de Dokuha series.
A rare signed copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf auctioned off for $34,900 bbc.co.uk :: 2009-08-14
A Russian telephone bidder at the Mullock's auction at Ludlow Racecourse bought the rare signed Mein Kampf, which Hitler gave to Johann Georg Maurer, an inmate and an early member of the Nazi Party, at Landsberg Prison after the failed 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. The work, which translates as My Struggle, became the bible of National Socialism in Nazi Germany. The Mein Kampf was sold alongside a signed pencil self-portrait of the Nazi leader dated 1926, which fetched 12,300 pounds and was purchased by a private collector in the UK.
Bavaria rejects reprint of Hitler's Mein Kampf despite widespread support the idea bloomberg.com :: 2009-08-05
Plans by German historians to reprint Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" as an academic treatise were turned down by the state copyright holders, who said a new edition could fuel support for far-right groups. The Bavarian authorities reaffirmed a 64-year-old ban on the book after the Munich-based Institute of Contemporary History (IFZ) applied for permission to reprint the work. Historians had wanted exclusive rights to repackage the work in a scholarly volume with comments and publish it ahead of rivals. While Nazi regalia such as the Swastika are outlawed in Germany, Mein Kampf was subject to a 70-year copyright (expiring 2015) lodged with the Bavarian state.
For sale: A rare pre-publication copy of Mein Kampf, signed by Adolf Hitler telegraph.co.uk :: 2009-07-27
The book is thought to be one of only a handful of pre-publication copies of Mein Kampf given to the Nazi dictator in 1925. Adolf Hitler dedicated it to to fellow Nazi, Georg Maurer, with inscription: "Herrn Johann Georg Maurer. In memory of our time together in prison in Landsberg. Cordially dedicated by Adolf Hitler." Maurer, a Nazi party official, was jailed with Hitler after the failed Munich Beer Putsch in 1923. But when Maurer was freed he betrayed Hitler by giving a list of supporters to the Munich Post. Historical documents expert Richard Westwood-Brookes said the book is a great rarity: expected to reach well over 20,000 pounds when it's auctioned off on August 13.
India: Sales of Mein Kampf soar as students want to learn from the management guru telegraph.co.uk :: 2009-04-21
Sales of Mein Kampf and Adolf Hitler's autobiography are increasing in India where business students see the dictator as a management guru and Mein Kampf as a management guide. Sales over the last 6 months topped 10,000 in New Delhi alone - and it's becoming more popular with every year. Students see it as a success story where one man can have a vision, work out a plan on how to implement it and then complete it. It's not helping that Mahatma Gandhi corresponded with the Fuehrer, pro-Independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army allied with Nazi Germany, and the Nazis drew on Hindu symbolism for their Swastika motif and ideas of Aryan supremacy.
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf a Kindle best seller - Before disappearing from the list cnet.com :: 2009-03-20
Low price e-books can wreak havoc on best-seller lists - just ask Amazon, which had Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" sitting atop its best-seller list for legal thrillers in the Kindle Store. The Kindle Edition of "Mein Kampf" has two versions: one costs $1.58, and the other costs $1.60. Both are popular, and the frist one captured the No. 1 spot on the legal-thriller list, then disappeared within minutes of capturing the screen shot. Amazon had yet not responded to the enquiries about the Mein Kampf case.
How Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (My Struggle) changed the world livescience.com :: 2008-09-02
It is a poorly-written mess penned from the cell of a prison, but the ideas in Adolf Hitler's 1925 "Mein Kampf" would resonate beyond the book's quality. Mein Kampf (at first Hitler thought title "Four Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice") was the manifesto from which Hitler's atrocities stemmed - a book that may have vanished from the history had the author not gone on to carry out the ideas in reality. The "Munich Beer Hall Putsch" sent Hitler to jail for high treason. While jailed, Hitler read piles of books, but he didn't consider putting his ideas down on paper, until proposed that an autobiography might be a good way to pass the time.
1941 comic book "Mean Scamp-F" pokes fun at Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf ottawacitizen :: 2008-08-05
This 60-page comic book is about the early days of World War II and was published in 1941 by the Musson Book Company Ltd. The title is "Mean Scamp-F" and the author is Pte. Harry Hall, from the 46th Battalion Canadian Infantry, 1914-1918. It's a really interesting piece. Very few paper collectibles survive the years, and that's why they're called ephemera (short-lived). Adolf Hitler was convicted of treason in 1923 after a coup attempt. To clear his name he wrote Mein Kampf. The title of this comic book, Mean Scamp-F, is a parody of Mein Kampf. But because there seem to be no sales records for this particular comic, it's hard to appraise.
Historians call for Mein Kampf reprint as time runs out in fight against far Right timesonline :: 2008-04-25
Historians want to bring out a new edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf - outlawed in Germany since 1945. Oscar Schneider, of the Nuremberg documentation centre, is urging the Bavarian government, which owns the copyright on Mein Kampf, to lift the ban. "That copyright runs out in 2015... we have to be prepared that neo-Nazis will distribute the book in large quantities." The Institute for Contemporary History in Munich agrees: "All kinds of inflammatory Nazi writings have been published in a scientific format, except for Mein Kampf." Historian Dieter Pohl said that an annotated version requires "a hellish amount of time and resources".
Mein Kampf autographed by Adolf Hitler sells for $18,000 bloomberg :: 2007-12-06
A 1925 copy of Mein Kampf signed by Adolf Hitler sold for $18,000 at a New York auction. A bidder paid 50% more than the estimate. The buyer is "a noted East Coast collector," says Levi Morgan, a spokesman for auction house Bonhams & Butterfields. Hitler's volume comes from the first edition of 500 copies. It's inscribed to Major Schueler van Kriken and dated Dec. 10, 1925.
Signed Mein Kampf, Nazi bravery award Knight's Cross in auction heraldsun :: 2007-11-14
A signed copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and a rare Nazi bravery award are expected to fetch thousands at an auction in Brisbane. The 1935 copy of Mein Kampf (My Struggle), signed by Hitler, is expected to fetch over $2500 at the Brisbane Legacy Military Memorabilia Auction. However, the auction's showpiece is the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves and Swords, one of Nazi Germany's highest military honours. It was awarded to only 159 recipients during World War II and could fetch up to $20,000. Both were among a number of items donated by the family of German militaria collector Howard Bergin.
Gerhard Weinberg who discovered Mein Kampf sequel to speak murfreesboropost :: 2007-11-01 :: Historians, Authors of World War II
In 1958 in a sweltering (converted torpedo factory in Alexandria, Va.) historian Gerhard L. Weinberg was searching through huge stacks of documents that the U.S. had captured from Nazi Germany. He came across an unknown prize: a secret book dictated by Adolf Hitler in 1928, the unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf. It was this book that became the subject of the History Channel’s 2004 documentary "Hitler’s Lost Plan." This documentary will be shown at 2 p.m. on Nov 7 followed by a talk given by Weinberg.
Bavaria won battle to get sale of Mein Kampf banned in Turkey todayszaman :: 2007-08-26 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book
Bavaria, one of Germany’s states, has won a legal battle to get the publication and sale of Adolf Hitler’s book "Mein Kampf" banned in Turkey after the book became a best-seller in Turkey. With publishers saying more than 100,000 copies have been sold, Bavaria took action to intervene. In letters to publishers, Bavarian officials argued that the book’s copyright belonged to the German federal state everywhere except in the US and Britain.
Historian: Put Mein Kampf back in bookshops with refutations haaretz :: 2007-07-17
German historian Horst Moeller has called for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic book Mein Kampf to be reprinted and put back on sale with notes on its errors, saying this would be preferable to a flood of unrefuted editions. He said this would be better than waiting until 2015 when anybody could publish it after copyright in Germany lapses on the book. The alternative would be a rush of editions without comments when the 1924 book enters the public domain 70 years after Hitler's death. The legal rights to the book are held by the Bavarian Ministry of Finance, which seized all the Nazi Party publishing assets after 1945.
Polish court drops case against publisher of Hitler's Mein Kampf pravda :: 2007-05-23
A case of a publisher charged with breaking copyright laws for publishing Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” was dropped by a regional court in Poland. A publisher, identified only as Marek S., broke law by printing 3,000 copies of the Polish translation of Mein Kampf, "My Struggle." Arguing that the harm caused by the small-scale publishing of the book was minimal, since Marek S. agreed to halt printing and withdraw the work from bookstores at his own cost - the court agreed to drop the case. The German state of Bavaria holds the rights to the book, in which Hitler expressed his desire to conquer territory in Eastern Europe.
A Polish publisher wants to publish an edition of Mein Kampf spiegel :: 2006-04-25
A Polish publisher wants to publish an edition of Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic book "Mein Kampf." But he may be in violation of copyright laws. The German state of Bavaria, where Hitler once lived, owns the rights to the title -- and is doing what it can to defend them. "Mein Kampf has to be published, because there's a market for it." The market he's referring to isn't Wroclaw's skinhead community, but the "many students" who have supposedly contacted him to inquire about the book because, as they say, they need it for academic research.
A copy of "Mein Kampf" personally belonged to Hitler? newnation.vg :: 2006-03-16
Gentile's students had written the German government in researching whether a copy of "Mein Kampf" personally belonged to Hitler. The leatherbound book reportedly was taken as a souvenir when American troops advanced into Berchtesgaden, at the close of WWII. A Wisconsin soldier from the 101st Airborne had loaned the book to Gentile's students. Janssen possesses the book and now wants to sell it. The letters could help boost the book's value, he said.
A new translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf Stirs Anger in Azerbaijan FJC :: 2005-11-09
An attempt to get a new translation of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf into bookshops in Azerbaijan has infuriated several groups and triggered the detention of the book's publisher. Anti-mafia police briefly arrested the editor-in-chief of Xural newspaper, Avaz Zeynalli, for getting the book translated into Azeri and publishing a few hundred copies.
Signed Mein Kampf first edition sold for 23,800 pounds bbc :: 2005-06-15
The book, which was sold to an anonymous buyer at Bloomsbury Auctions, was expected to fetch up to £25,000. It was sold on behalf of a collector and was part of a lot of signed postcards and other stationery from high-ranking Nazis. The work - which translates as My Struggle - became the bible of National Socialism in Hitler's Third Reich. Originally called Four Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice, it was first published in two volumes. The book which was auctioned is the first volume, written when Hitler was in Landsberg prison after the abortive Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.
10 most harmful books - Nro 2. Mein Kampf humanevents :: 2005-05-31
(1) The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels. (2) Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler - It was initially published in two parts in 1925 and 1926 after Hitler was imprisoned for leading Nazi Brown Shirts in the "Beer Hall Putsch." Here Hitler explained his vision for Germany, laying out a Nazi program pointing directly to World War II. He envisioned a war against France to precede a war against Russia to carve out "lebensraum" ("living room") for Germans in Eastern Europe. The book was originally ignored, but not after Hitler rose to power. There were 10 million copies in circulation by 1945.
Mein Kampf sales soar in Turkey guardian :: 2005-03-29
Mein Kampf, the book Hitler wrote in prison before he rose to power in 1933, has become a bestseller in Turkey, provoking consternation. The dreams of creating a master race are being snapped up by young Turks. Its publishers believe that more than 100,000 copies have been sold in the past two months. Booksellers and the publishers have assured that their motives are "purely commercial and not ideological."
Hitler dodged taxes - By 1945 earned 7.6m RM out of Mein Kampf bbc :: 2004-12-18 :: Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler spent years dodging taxes, accumulating enormous debts as he led his Nazi party to power, a tax expert has revealed. He owed the authorities 405,500 Reichsmarks (6m euros) by 1934, when as German chancellor his debts were forgiven. A retired Bavarian notary found Hitler's tax secrets from the Bavarian State Archive. Mr Dubon told that Hitler had earned 1.2m Reichsmarks in 1933 from sales of his book Mein Kampf. But he failed to pay tax on 600,000 Reichsmarks of that income. In his correspondence with tax inspectors, Hitler repeatedly asked to pay in instalments. But once installed as chancellor in 1933, his tax troubles were over.
Hitler's second book - The amazing story behind the discovery of Mein Kampf sequel telegraph.co.uk :: 2003-09-25 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book
In 1958 Gerhard Weinberg made the kind of discovery that features in every historian's dreams: Adolf Hitler's largely unknown second book. When Hitler's Table Talk was published by Hugh Trevor-Roper in 1953, there was a reference to this "unpublished work" by Hitler himself. One day, leafing through the contents of a box-file (captured German military documents in the US Army archives) he found a folder labelled "Draft of Mein Kampf". Inside was a 324-page typescript: "The moment I looked at it... and the attached document on its confiscation, it became obvious to me that this was not a draft of Mein Kampf."
Mein Kampf for sale in Arabic - Sixth best selling book telegraph.co.uk :: 2002-03-19
An Arabic translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf which has become a bestseller in the Palestinian territories is now on sale in Britain. The book, Hitler's account of his life and anti-Semitic ideology written while he was in prison, is normally found in Britain in academic bookshops. But The Telegraph found it on sale on Edgware Road, an area with a large Arab population. The book has a picture of Hitler and a swastika on the cover and is selling for £10. Although the Bavarian state government, which claims copyright in the text, has tried to stop its publication, Mein Kampf became the sixth best selling book in the Palestinian Authority area.
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