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It's curious to me that the government (local government in this case, it appears) would want to censor that book. The whole idea of freedom is that people shou
by NickPollard 13y ago
It's curious to me that the government (local government in this case, it appears) would want to censor that book. The whole idea of freedom is that people should be free to make up their own mind, and being able to study what Hitler wrote is important to a study of history.
My parents have a copy of Mein Kampf on their bookshelf; not because they're Nazis but because it tells us a lot about what happened.
- arethuza 13y agoI think it is a misguided, but also completely understandable, desire on the part of modern Germans to be seen to completely disassociate themselves from their ghastly past.
- VLM 13y agoI had (have?) a copy as one of many textbooks for a Holocaust class. Its pretty crazy to read because quite a few things from the 30s and 40s turned out just like planned in the book. Deja Vu feelings all thru. Which led to in class discussions about which modern book, if any, seems equally likely to predict the future. Some peak oil classics were discussed, Camp of the Saints was discussed, a couple others. The unabomber ramblings and quite a few others got discredited. Lots of in class discussion about why the events of WWII seemed inevitable, why was the only response to his very public plans was eventually the D-Day invasion and is that right or wrong way to do it and how so. Its a great book for encouraging in class discussion and hopefully once its finally liberated more history classes and liberal arts synthesis classes will use it as a resource. This is the academic tragedy of copyright. We have better educational materials for the Civil War than WWII because memoirs and such are free from the civil war.