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Historians call for Mein Kampf reprint as time runs out in fight against far Right
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".     [ timesonline :: 2008-04-25 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book ]

Mein Kampf autographed by Adolf Hitler sells for $18,000
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.     [ bloomberg :: 2007-12-06 ]

Signed Mein Kampf, Nazi bravery award Knight's Cross in auction
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 military collector Howard Bergin.     [ heraldsun :: 2007-11-14 ]

Gerhard Weinberg who discovered Mein Kampf sequel to speak
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 He came across an unknown prize: a secret book dictated by Adolf Hitler in 1928, the unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf.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.     [ murfreesboropost :: 2007-11-01 :: Historians, Authors of World War II ]

Bavaria won battle to get sale of Mein Kampf banned in Turkey
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.     [ todayszaman :: 2007-08-26 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book ]

Historian: Put Mein Kampf back in bookshops with refutations
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 cheap 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.     [ haaretz :: 2007-07-17 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book ]

Polish court drops case against publisher of Hitler's Mein Kampf
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.     [ pravda :: 2007-05-23 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book ]

A Polish publisher wants to publish an edition of Mein Kampf
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.     [ spiegel :: 2006-04-25 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book ]

A copy of "Mein Kampf" personally belonged to Hitler?
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.     [ greenbaypressgazette :: 2006-03-16 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book ]

A new translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf Stirs Anger in Azerbaijan
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.     [ FJC :: 2005-11-09 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book ]

Signed Mein Kampf first edition sold for 23,800 pounds
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.     [ bbc :: 2005-06-15 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book ]

10 most harmful books - Nro 2. Mein Kampf
(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.     [ humanevents :: 2005-05-31 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book ]

Mein Kampf sales soar in Turkey
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."     [ guardian :: 2005-03-29 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book ]

Hitler dodged taxes - By 1945 earned 7.6m RM out of Mein Kampf
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.     [ bbc :: 2004-12-18 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Hitler's second book - The amazing story behind discovery
In 1958 Gerhard Weinberg made the kind of discovery that features in every historian's dreams: 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 green 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, read the opening lines and the attached document on its confiscation, it became obvious to me that this was not a draft of Mein Kampf. In fact, this was the book to which I had seen references."     [ telegraph :: 2003-09-25 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book ]

Mein Kampf sequel to be published in English
The sequel to Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf is to be published in English later this year. The book, which has no title and will be published simply as Hitler's Second Book, was dictated during 1928 but never published. Instead, it was kept in the safe of the Nazi publishing house, where it was found by American troops in 1945. The manuscript was rediscovered there in the summer of 1958 by Gerhard Weinberg.     [ telegraph :: 2003-06-21 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book ]

Mein Kampf for sale in Arabic - Sixth best selling book
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.     [ telegraph :: 2002-03-19 :: Mein Kampf & The Second Book ]

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