Demand for reprint of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' overwhelms publisher

Like any scourge of darkness, the best cure is sunshine. Let this tome of hate and wretchedness be published, let it be debated and discussed. It is only through cutting it apart in the community of ideas will it ever truly be discarded on the dust bin of history. By banning it and driving it underground it allows it to fester in the dark. Shine the light on it and eventually it will wither and die!

I think the opposite, this should stay buried and banned, what benefit do we have to read this guy..

this should stay buried and banned

It can't stay buried. Just Google "Mein Kampf" and you'll have instant access to an English translation, and I suppose other versions are also easily available. Over the years I have come across various quotes from different groups, each pushing their own agenda.

I hope they only added annotations and kept the text intact; otherwise, it's quite meaningless.

15,000 copies and they're overwhelmed?

With modern print methods, a print run of 1 or 1,000,000 are easy to produce so there is no reason that 15,000 copies are a problem for any printing company to manufacture, hell I can go to FedEx Kinko's and get 15,000 books by next week.

CrzyJoe: I say the same thing for the Yasakuni visits. It should not be buried.

this should stay buried and banned

No. Censorship gives this worthless rubbish a kind of credibility. Mad bad thinking like Nazism should be out in the open where we can give it the ridicule it deserves. We all need to read Mein Kampf and try to understand how this diseased mind managed to take over one of the great civilizations of Europe and plunge the world into industrial-scale death.

Should a book be banned under a democracy? Isn't that a characteristic of authoritarian societies? Either way, the "timing" really takes the cake.

The guy set out to wipe jews off the face of the earth and ended up giving them their own country and more power than any other in the region. Alanis Morisette would be rolling over in her mind.

leave it online, left to the blackhole of the Internet

I'd burn everyone of those copies such ideas shouldn't be printed on paper or read for that matter.

ooo! golly! "tell me how to hate!" now, what was it to hate? oh, yeah! "anything Adolph says, got it!"

What a silly book. What a silly idea.

"The book became a bestseller in Germany in the 1930s, after Hitler had become chancellor, and sold 12 million copies by the time World War Two ended in 1945. " - article

And was the basis for A's personal fortune from royalties. Nicely fabricated that.

If people want to read it and see what it's about, let them. I think non-religious people should read books like the Bible and Quran, ancient Greek philosophy, and even literary as well, as it adds education and knowledge of something that someone debates. It doesn't by any means require a person who is merely interested in reading it to adhere to Nazi propaganda or believe in what Hitler was doing or anything of the like. Hitler was an evil man. A book is just a book. How the reader uses it is the key.

Why do people think there is such a demand for the book now in the first place? It's because until now it was banned and censored. Print it, give people access, and most of the interest will die out anyway. Suggesting all copies be burnt will only pique interest.

Citizen2012:

" this should stay buried and banned "

Buried and banned? Anybody who wanted to read it has been able to so so for a long time on-line. For example, it is regularly published on islamic websites, like "Radio Islam". Just google for it.