Posted on 10/15/2015 6:33:36 PM PDT by markomalley
For the first time in decades, Adolf Hitler’s manifesto, “Mein Kampf,” is making a return to bookstores, NBC News reports.
A historical research center in Munich, the Institute of Contemporary History (IFZ), will publish a new annotated version of the manifesto in January.
The decision to publish Mein Kampf is arising because the copyright on the book is about to expire.
Currently the copyright belongs to the Bavarian government, given to them after the end of the Second World War. Since holding the copyright, the Bavarian government has restricted the publishing of the book out of respect for victims of the Holocaust.
Now with the copyright to set to expire, Hitler’s political declaration will return to German bookstores, a rare sight in the country since the days of the Third Reich.
Copies of Mein Kampf will be published with annotations providing analysis on the content of the books.
With the added commentary, the length of the book will increase from 800 pages to 2,000 pages with five historians and 30 experts from other fields contributing to the new edition.
The new annotations are a prerequisite to publishing Hitler’ manifesto. According to NBC News, the Bavarian government has threatened to prosecute anyone who would try to publish the book without historical commentary under “racial incitement” laws.
While Mein Kampf is not banned in Germany, Nazi symbols are banned, unless they are used for historic or educational purposes. The soon to be publisher said that the goal of publishing the manifesto with the political commentary is an attempt to counter Nazi ideology.
I talked to some Germans, many years after the war, who still thought he was the cat’s pajamas. Go figger.
We’ll split the difference: he was quite possibly the greatest demagogue ever.
I'm willin' to settle on that.
Sold.
He’s a “natural”. He doesn’t calculate. He’s a businessman, not a politician.
He doesn’t care if we agree with him but he is aware of the way people respond to him and he enjoys it.
Once he stops enjoying it, he will walk away, about the time his poll numbers drop. Then (hopefully) Cruz will step in and take over.
I would like to see Cruz make him ‘Czar in Charge of Hell Raising’. of course it will be a different title, but that’s what he would do. His first year would be taken up reversing Obama’s EOs and damage to our armed forces.
Hitler had a very good timber to his speaking voice. Those that heard him speak said he was mesmerizing. He would practice hand gestures to use and the same with facial expressions. There are actual photographs of him practicing.
The masses loved to listen to him, especially as there were light shows, torchlight parades and other special atmospheric effects to go along with his speeches. He was the first rock concert star and played the crowds like a fiddle.
>“Mein Kampf,” is making a return to bookstores<
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WHY not? IT belongs in the same category with the Koran.
And when it comes to public speaking, the man had no equal.
Thank God.
“He doesn’t care if we agree with him but he is aware of the way people respond to him and he enjoys it.
Once he stops enjoying it, he will walk away, about the time his poll numbers drop. Then (hopefully) Cruz will step in and take over.”
Dream on. Never going to happen. Trump is in it for the long run, and he will win the primaries and be our Prez candidate. Wanna bet?
He was charismatic. No doubt there.
Some of those crowds were massive.
WOW! I did not know Merkel has background from communist East Germany. That indeed clears up lot of things!
People who think Trump will get bored and drop out, simply do not understand what makes Trump tick. He never gives up when there is a chance to succeed. 4 bankruptcies of some of his business ventures did not cause him to give up. He came back out of them much stronger.
Only way ge drops out is exactly as he said, if his poll numbers go down to low single digits. And that is not even close to what is happening. Trump leads in EVERY state, in all polls. He as far from dropping out as I am to beating Jordan Spieth in golf.
Are you day dreaming? From yesterday’s poll numbers from SC. Trump 36, Carson 18, Cruz 5.
NV. Trump 38, Carson 22, Cruz 4.
Trump is surging and having more fun.
TIDBITS:
We always think of Hitler as rather unattractive, when actually in his time he was said to be considered attractive to the ladies to whom he was also very charming and had an old fashioned German courtly way about him. He had piercing blue eyes. Hitler was very formal about who would go into the dining room for meals first (they would go in two by two) and with whom and where each person would sit.
Although a Vegetarian himself, he never tried to impose it on others for whom meat dishes would be served. Eva Braun, Hitler’s mistress, would serve as hostess with the mostest for these evening dinners in Hitler’s mountain home. Later often the group would watch movies, as Hitler liked them, and/or sit around the fireplace listening to Hitler pontificate. Hitler had trouble sleeping, a problem for his dinner guests who would be stuck there later into the night rather than get to go to their rooms or home to sleep.
Hitler had a favorite applecake that he loved and his cook would make it for him all the time. She would leave it on the kitchen counter for him, knowing he would sneak into the kitchen late at night to eat a piece or two.
Not unlike what you would expect from the devil his own self.
> The man knew how to tune in to the passions of the people. Logic was just a plot device.
Well put. Hitler was no dunce. Misguided, but definitely a guy with a talent for communication.
anyone reading this diatribe will read it as the ravings of a madman and be turned off Naziism -- I've read it
Most Nutzis never read it and many complained on how rambling it was
You nailed it.
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