stonedonkey 🕹️🎮👾Exactly!
Tim@stonedonkey not sure if "Mein Kampf" was officially banned in Germany. But that would be a possible case...
Stephan Matthiesen@dr_rugby
No, it wasn't banned. However, the state held the copyright (until it expired in 2016) and did not license new editions. You could buy antiquarian versions (although not many were on offer). So in practice it was impossible to get. Now annotated editions are available.
However, the book is such a confused nonsense that many people said it's not really dangerous. Even in the 1930s few read it, Hitler' success was based on speeches and politics, not this book.
@StephanMatthiesen @stonedonkey yeah, just read that too...
arceuthobium@StephanMatthiesen @dr_rugby @stonedonkey Hitler successfully sued a publisher in the US for publishing an unauthorized translation of Mein Kampf instead of the sanitized official translation that left out all the people the Nazis were planning to kill.
kinyutaka@StephanMatthiesen @dr_rugby @stonedonkey
But if a confused, unhinged wackjob were to read it so regularly that it was heavily dogeared?
That might be dangerous.
Ponygirl
Man Blues@Ponygirl @StephanMatthiesen @dr_rugby @stonedonkey oh man, the story is that he dictated* the book to Göbbels (or Göring; i get these two mixed up all the time) whilst in prison in 1923.
So this is, essentially, the ramblings of a mad man in prison...
*pun intended
Carsten@StephanMatthiesen @dr_rugby @stonedonkey After invention of the Internet, in practice, you would just download it, if you wanted to read it. I did many years ago, as I wanted to know what this all was about - ooooh dear, what a garbage, incredibly hard to read and without coherent thoughts.