Posted on 03/17/2020 4:31:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Amazon has banned the sale of most editions of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and other Nazi propaganda books from its store following decades of campaigning by Holocaust charities, The Guardian reported on Monday.
According to the report, booksellers were informed in recent days that they would no longer be allowed to sell a number of Nazi-authored books on the website including Hitler’s autobiographical screed and children’s books designed to spread anti-Semitic ideas among children.
In one email seen by The Guardian, individuals selling secondhand copies of “Mein Kampf” on the service have been told by Amazon that “they can no longer offer this book” as it breaks the website’s code of conduct.
The ban impacts the main editions of “Mein Kampf” produced by mainstream publishers such as London-based Random House and India’s Jaico, for whom it has become an unlikely bestseller.
While leading Holocaust education charities and Jewish groups have campaigned to stop Amazon from selling copies of the Nazi leader’s book, the retailer had traditionally defended the right of free speech and the need for students to understand Hitler’s thinking when it comes to selling a book which is legal to publish. …
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Wrong move.
Hitler was a monster. But his book should be read and understood by those who want to know more about how that came to be.
how very...Fahrenheit 451...of them.
Is Amazon going to hold a book burning party next to burn it?
The most important reason Jeff Mengele would want to ban Mein Kampf is that leftist politicians are so frequently tricked into quoting long translated passages from it and their constituents cheer wildly and voice agreement.
I agree completely. Frankly it’s a laborious and unpleasant read but it’s very revealing. It’s also very disturbing to see some of those same attitudes percolating through the public consciousness today.
Books should not be banned.
Good question.
ML/NJ
they don’t like competition.
Exactly. Karl Marx is directly responsible for more deaths than any other single cause.
Rosanna Arquette deeply saddened.
How free speech of them.
But the communist manifesto is still there, along with Sanger’s “women and the new race”, books on becoming a tranny. Books on the wonders of baby killing...etc.
I have Mein Kampf, Das Kapital, and a translation of Mao’s Little Red Book that I picked up in East Berlin back in the day (it’s not red but it is on really cheap paper). They are all dreadful reads, although perhaps much gets lost in translation. They should be required reading by modern day Bernie loving snowflakes. Not that they would ever read a book...
Most editions......so which editions are still allowed?
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