2001-06-28 ROYALTIES FROM MEIN KAMPF COME TO HOLOCAUST VICTIMS Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” is forbidden for republication in many countries. The ban is not applied to Great Britain, though. A row broke out when it turned out that the royalties from the book’s sale had been coming to the German Welfare Council, a foundation aimed to help Holocaust victims. The British public was indignant over the commercial use of Mein Kampf. The foundation was forced to refuse from receiving further royalties from the book’s sale. In the meantime, Hitler’s Mein Kampf is known to have brought the foundation an income estimated at about DM3m. http://english.pravda.ru/society/2001/06/28/8889.html
' The British Public ' ...? Oh yes, that must have been that big demonstration last week, nearly a million people on the streets of London, waving banners in protest....er, no, that was for something else.... Seriously, a few intellectuals, maybe, but I should think that the 'British Public' ( about 56m of them ) would be fairly indifferent.
Well, as someone who bought it many years ago, i would be happy to think that some of my cash went to help the authors victims. This British public that were in such upoar at this, i wounder if they were BNP members.
Well, I won't be so happy to tell you that my copy of the book went directly to the author's pockets... My book's edition is from 1934...
Well, I have a copy of it in Spanish, printed some years ago in Mexico City, so I do not know who got the incomes of the book's sell... However, it is an interesting copy, because the prologue was written by a pro-fascist Argentinian writer in the 1930s who does everything but stop saying wonders of the Führer...
Ive got a copy of it somewhere--I think its about 40 or so yrs old--not sure--my mother bought it when it was new.
I don't have a copy to call mine, but I have read it twice. I had to special order it through the university library and it took about 2 months before I could get it...even then, I was only allowed to rent it for 10 days IL DUCE
Well. We have to accept that the book is very good, actually! The author catches your mind with his rethoric and he drives it as he wants in a very pleasant way. However, sometimes he does not explain why he thinks that way or quotes not very trustable facts. And there are many things which he says over and over again about morality, bolshevism, the jews, etcetera which are tiring and not true. But in other aspects he comes with such wonderful undeniable truths about the world and politics. It's amazing!
Hmm, most of what I've read about Mein Kampf have said it's incomprehensible, barely grammatical rhetorical gibberish.
Greenjacket: I'd have to disagree...it seems to be the genreal consensus of this forum that Mein Kampf was and still is a very interesting read. Now, that doesn't mean that any of us here agree with what Hitler wrote, but we do agree that it is a book that deserves recognition, good or bad.
I didn't mean to say it was an insignificant, uninteresting, or a book unworthy of recognition. Rather, simply that Hitler's written style was very poor, according to what I have read.
I am not sure, I mean his written style may not be up in the league of the greats but it is better than most trashey novels that you will find these days. I have read chunks of it and found the style reasonable. Actually I would say that it is rather mediocre, nothing more nothing less. I really should read the whole thing sometime.
you should Stefan! it's well worth it. Greenjacket: understood....I guess what I meant by my last post was that you should try and read it yourself and then that way you can judge it for yourself. A book is an awful lot like a movie...some people love it while others can't stand it. It's up to the viewer (or in this case the reader) to determine if it suits them or not. IL DUCE
I totally agree with Stefan and Randi: The language of the book may be too baroque, but it is very well explained and understandable. It is a book which is definately worth it and it is a MUST READ book if you want to understand nazi ideology and Germany's policies in WWII as well as ALL modern politics.
