Oh Dear - Sales of Hitler's Mein Kampf soaring

[scooterscot]

He was one of the major influences of the last century. Doubt everyone buying MK is a neo-Nazi, most will probably just be interested in history. Programs about Hitler frequently feature on TV.

That was my take on it. Except my older German neighbour of mein that never says word, always suspicious of him.

[Cliphead]

Just an aside. For years the public library of the town I grew up in had a display showing a hardback copy of MK with an embedded piece of German bomb shrapnel from the blitz, the only book damaged.

[SueEllen]

No because I haven't read them.

Maybe you should - it would expand your world view.

[xoggoth]

Mein Kampf has to be be better that Blair's biographies surely?

[SueEllen]

Mein Kampf has to be be better that Blair's biographies surely?

You mean because you know one is blatantly untrue?

Anyway Blair is still alive. Until he's dead reading his biography about the 3rd way is pointless as we still haven't seen the full historical impact of it.

[WTFH]

So maybe the headline story is a tad misleading...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38500422

[SueEllen]

So maybe the headline story is a tad misleading...
Hitler's Mein Kampf not a best-seller in Germany - BBC News

Interesting....

Mein Kampf (My Struggle) is an expensive academic text, costing €58 (£49; $60), and is being bought by libraries, schools and history academics.

[NickFitz]

I've got books about Alistair Crowley, doesn't make me a Satanist.

I always thought Crowley showed a bit of class by describing his memoirs as an autohagiography - a hagiography being the book of the life of a saint

[shaunbhoy]

Interesting....

Really?

[NotAllThere]

Mein Kampf has to be be better that Blair's biographies surely?

Probably will make you less likely to one to kill someone.