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'Mein Kampf' a Best Seller in Turkey
Yahoo - AP ^ | 03/24/05 | JAMES C. HELICKE

Posted on 03/24/2005 12:54:58 PM PST by Borges

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1 posted on 03/24/2005 12:54:58 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

I read it when I was in high school. Just because you read a book doesn't mean you agree with it.


2 posted on 03/24/2005 12:56:02 PM PST by Bluegrass Conservative
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To: Borges
"I saw the book on TV and got curious about Hitler's life and decided to buy it," said Asli Ugur, 20, a university student.

She also bought a book about Che Guevara.

Well they are blood brothers and ideologically similar.

3 posted on 03/24/2005 12:57:34 PM PST by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

ping


4 posted on 03/24/2005 1:02:19 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Bluegrass Conservative
Why buy it when it's available free on line.
5 posted on 03/24/2005 1:02:37 PM PST by joshhiggins
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Why buy it when it's available free on line.

I actually checked it out of the public library. But I understand if someone buys it. Say what you will, it is an influential book in 20th Century history. If I was teaching a college class on what led up to WWII, I would make sections of it required reading.

6 posted on 03/24/2005 1:06:17 PM PST by Bluegrass Conservative
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It was apparently pretty much ignored until after Hitler came to power. The book itself had no real influence until after the war was unavoidable.


7 posted on 03/24/2005 1:09:12 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges
The book itself had no real influence until after the war was unavoidable.

This is true. Perhaps I need to clarify. I would make it required reading because it gives insight into the mind of Hitler.

8 posted on 03/24/2005 1:11:32 PM PST by Bluegrass Conservative
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An uncle brought one back from duty during WWII, I still have it, but I can't read the german script. Is it worth anything?


9 posted on 03/24/2005 1:18:55 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (BBTD is back after 5 mos absence.)
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To: Borges

'Mein Kampf' a Best Seller in Turkey and Canada?


10 posted on 03/24/2005 1:19:31 PM PST by maestro
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To: Borges
I heard Hitler wrote Mein Kampf at a period in his life when he was troubled by chronic constipation
11 posted on 03/24/2005 1:26:00 PM PST by injin ("sooner rather than later.")
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To: Bluegrass Conservative

I tried to read it in college, but it was so poorly written that I couldn't get past about the first 15 or so pages. Maybe it just loses something in the translation from German to English, but seeing it back on bestseller lists, and rising anti-Semitism in a supposedly moderate Muslim nation is troubling.


12 posted on 03/24/2005 1:35:35 PM PST by ABG(anybody but Gore) (From Roe v Wade to Terri Schiavo, the RATS have become a death cult...)
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"Metal Storm" by Orkun Ucar and Burak Turna, a novel imagining a war between Turkey and the United States, is Turkey's top seller.

Something else to ponder.

13 posted on 03/24/2005 1:37:28 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: Bluegrass Conservative
Amazon has it for $15.40 (guess Bavaria get the royalties)

And you can read it on the web for free.

14 posted on 03/24/2005 1:43:28 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: maestro

Quite a few people have a copy of it in Canada...My mother has a very old copy of it , along with a 200 year old engineering book on steam engines...She has lots of old books.


15 posted on 03/24/2005 1:44:11 PM PST by MD_Willington_1976
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To: Tribune7

Here's a synopsis:
http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=2456


Sounds trite.


16 posted on 03/24/2005 2:01:00 PM PST by mrsmith
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Sounds trite.

Sounds insane.

17 posted on 03/24/2005 2:12:37 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Does it have a picture of Hitler on the cover or is it a plain cover?


18 posted on 03/24/2005 2:17:04 PM PST by Rebelbase (FR has gone "All Terri All The Time".)
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To: KC_Conspirator

You think Che and Hitler were ideologically similiar?
Che was a died in the wool revolutionary Marxist-Leninist.Hitler was an avowed anti-Bolshevik whose suppressed Marxists within Germany and unleashed Hell on Soviet Russia.
Now it can be argued truthfully that both Guevara and Hitler were totalitarian ideologues who tolerated no dissent and were true believers in their particluar political pathologies.In that respect they were quite a bit alike.


19 posted on 03/24/2005 2:20:04 PM PST by Riverman94610
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Both were socialists. One a national socialist and one an international socialist. Its the totalitarian and brutal traits that I think they have in common as well.


20 posted on 03/24/2005 2:24:08 PM PST by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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