"Mein Kampf" - back in Germany!

[HarmanKardon]

The masterpiece of one of the most popular historical figures in this forum will be republished in Germany in 2016. The book will have 2000 pages. 780 pages insane crap full of contempt for humanity (20 years ago I read the first 100 pages, after that I had almost to puke) and more than 1300 pages with scientific comments on these 780 pages. The old copyright of the book ends in 2015.

This publication is remarkable because up to now "Mein Kampf", the original version, is totally forbidden in the Fahterland. Try to sell a copy (worth thousands of Euros!) on Ebay and you will get SEVERE calamities. I know that there is a very relaxed attitude towards "Mein Kampf" in the USA, which shows again the different attitude of our nations towards Third Reich memorials.

"Mein Kampf" would never be published in Germany without the huge scientific comment. There are still too many people over here (and everywhere in the world) who would take the verbal faeces of the Barking Monster for serious facts, for reasonable ideas.

[icenine]

Not memorials but the First Amendment. In America there is no law against publishing any book,
unless it is deemed to be obscene, which "standard" is reserved for pornography.

[finnbow]

While I understand German sensitivity to Hitler's writings, it should be published, with or without editorial commentary. Germany has done far better than Japan in acknowledging the atrocities it committed in WWII and this process should continue.

[HarmanKardon]

Rob I totally agree with you. I never accepeted the Bevormundung (imposing?) by the German authorities, which ends now, I think it would have been useful if intellectuals in Germany could have made their own opinion by reading the book. The copy I started to read was from my former music teacher, his parents got it when they married - instead of the bible - as it was usual back then.

[sheltiedave]

Chris, you are a willing and thoughtful ambassador of Germany here. We applaud your country's stance as one of significant soul searching, and this to be a reasoned attempt to properly frame this newly published book.

Thanks!

[HarmanKardon]

Originally Posted by sheltiedave

Chris, you are a willing and thoughtful ambassador of Germany here. We applaud your country's stance as one of significant soul searching, and this to be a reasoned attempt to properly frame this newly published book.

Thanks!

Thank you so much for your encouragement, I need that sometimes. It is not easy for a German in a foreign Political forum to particpate in an appropriate manner due to the dark history of the 20th century. But as this topic shows, like other topics as well, I am ready for a critical reviewing of the difficult past of Germany.

Nice that you use the term "ambassador" because it is exactly the term that comes from time to time into my mind when I participate on Audiokarma. I posted 17300 times over there trying to be an ambassador of the modern open minded democratic Germany. (Okay - of course the main reason for my participation is entertainment...)

Well - and don't forget that I never speak a single word English, never, all my English just exists in a written form.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

Well - and don't forget that I never speak a single word English, never, all my English just exists in a written form.

Ach du liebes Bichen!

I think that is German for Holy Cow!

I am sure if you can write it like that you can speak some...you should practive the next time you see an "ugly American" tourists with a fanny pack on lol

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

Nice that you use the term "ambassador" because it is exactly the term that comes from time to time into my mind when I participate on Audiokarma. I posted 17300 times over there trying to be an ambassador of the modern open minded democratic Germany.

Modern Germany is a wonder and, in part, an example of what an enlightened approach to post-conflict treatment of former adversaries can do. Would that* America had taken these lessons to heart.

Well - and don't forget that I never speak a single word English, never, all my English just exists in a written form.

Should you ever want to improve your spoken English, you could visit my old friend Mark in Lorch. He's an Ami service brat who seemed always to feel more German than American so, when he got to a certain point in his life, he moved back to Hesse.

John

*That's how to use, "would that", Zeke.

[matteos]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

Thank you so much for your encouragement, I need that sometimes. It is not easy for a German in a foreign Political forum to particpate in an appropriate manner due to the dark history of the 20th century. But as this topic shows, like other topics as well, I am ready for a critical reviewing of the difficult past of Germany.

Nice that you use the term "ambassador" because it is exactly the term that comes from time to time into my mind when I participate on Audiokarma. I posted 17300 times over there trying to be an ambassador of the modern open minded democratic Germany. (Okay - of course the main reason for my participation is entertainment...)

Well - and don't forget that I never speak a single word English, never, all my English just exists in a written form.

The Germans have suffered enough now. Most generations in Germany weren't even alive in WW2...dont get me wrong.. as a brit i love to make lazy tasteless jokes, but the fact is you guys have soul searched as well as any country can and you are absolutely back as part of modern Europe where we work together as allies, because God forbid we ever have to endure the horrors of two world wars again. Germany, France, Britain. .we're friends and allies how Could we ever fight each other again? Buck a thousand years of invading and fighting each other because it's a terrible idea, a Terrible outcome and culturally were all so similar anyway. We're natural allies. Why did we even fight each other?i feel the same way about Russia. Why are we at odds with them? They're similar enough culturally..makes no sense at all to be foes.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

While I understand German sensitivity to Hitler's writings, it should be published, with or without editorial commentary. Germany has done far better than Japan in acknowledging the atrocities it committed in WWII and this process should continue.

Get with the program. The Nazis, not Germany, committed those atrocities.