Posted on 01/03/2017 6:34:09 AM PST by Enlightened1
The first reprint of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" in Germany since World War II has proved a surprise bestseller, heading for its sixth print run, its publisher said Tuesday.
The Institute of Contemporary History of Munich (IfZ) said around 85,000 copies of the new annotated version of the Nazi leader's anti-Semitic manifesto had flown off the shelves since its release last January.
However, the respected institute said that far from promoting far-right ideology, the publication had enriched a debate on the renewed rise of "authoritarian political views" in contemporary Western society.
It had initially planned to print only 4,000 copies but boosted production immediately based on intense demand. The sixth print run will hit bookstores in late January.
The two-volume work had figured on the non-fiction bestseller list in weekly magazine Der Spiegel over much of the last year, and even topped the list for two weeks in April.
The institute also organised a successful series of presentations and debates around "Mein Kampf" across Germany and in other European cities, which it said allowed it to measure the impact of the new edition.
"It turned out that the fear the publication would promote Hitler's ideology or even make it socially acceptable and give neo-Nazis a new propaganda platform was totally unfounded," IfZ director Andreas Wirsching said in a statement.
"To the contrary, the debate about Hitler's worldview and his approach to propaganda offered a chance to look at the causes and consequences of totalitarian ideologies, at a time in which authoritarian political views and rightwing slogans are gaining ground."
- 'Not reactionaries or radicals' -
The institute said the data collected about buyers by regional bookstores showed that they tended to be "customers interested in politics and history as well as educators" and not "reactionaries or rightwing radicals".
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probably a few muslims are buying it too
The Communists are gonna be pissed off by that.
Poor Angela Merkel, her days are numbered.
It was a best seller in Croatia not that many years ago.
Right around the time they were using arm salutes at hockey games I believe.
>> “Hitler’s worldview and his approach to propaganda offered a chance to look at the causes and consequences of totalitarian ideologies, at a time in which authoritarian political views and rightwing slogans are gaining ground.”
Stuff it, Andreas.
The trouble with his Kampf is that it had no God in it.
More Propaganda.
Hitler was a middle of the road socialist for his time.
He was clearly a man of the left.
To call Hitler and Nazism “right wing” has been a progaganda ploy by the International socialists from the time that the Nazi’s attacked Russia.
They should print it in arabic...would sell a billion copies.
The trouble with his Kampf is that it had no God in it.
“They should print it in arabic...would sell a billion copies”, they have and it does!
Btw how is it we never here Islam revered to a right-winger...they are “religious” imposing and authoritian...?
If you want to know history it’s a book worth reading. Also read Das Kapital, gotta know what these people think.
Germany feels so guilty about the Holocaust that they are importing hordes of Jew haters from the Middle East.
But anyhow, it may be good if, in a broad sense, they’re at least thinking of rebelling against the status quo. Here is where we need the opportunistic evangelist to make sure the Kampf has God in it this time around.
Btw how is it we never here Islam refered to as right-wingers...they are “religious” imposing and authoritarian...?
Or rather... where the German philosophy will tend to go if God becomes a nullity in it.
The Weimar Republic was pretty damned profligate. “Cabaret” was intended as a portrait of its time and place. This profligacy also set up Germany to be a sitting duck for the ghastly judgment of Nazism.
“The institute said the data collected about buyers by regional bookstores showed that they tended to be “customers interested in politics and history as well as educators” and not “reactionaries or rightwing radicals”.
Well duh,it’s a book.
That’s why I read “The Turner Diaries” 15 years ago——curiosity.
Readers read.
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Merkel is bringing the Muslims into the Rheinland!
Maybe this is for the better then, too. Readers read for some kind of purpose. Maybe concern about where Germany could go is an important factor here. I hope they get the hint, if not now then when evangelistic voices are heard in Germany, that there is a wrong way and a right way.
The Koran is Muhammed’s “Mein Kampf.”
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