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Clemens Vollnhals, a professor of history at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research of the Technical University in Dresden, arguing that book bans should not be tolerated in a free society. "Mein Kampf" has found a new audience in Japan, where a manga version has become a minor hit. (Asahi Shimbun)
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The banning of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' may have been justified in the early years after the war, but now we have a totally different situation. 'Mein Kampf' has no magical qualities. It is a badly writt
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shinjukuboy
The key word is "minor hit". 45,000 copies isn't even a drop in the bucket for a manga hit. The buyers probably don't even know what it is.
franz75
"where a manga version has become a minor hit." a manga? do they have a hello kitty version of Bergen-Belsen?
More seriously, I read a copy of "Mein Kampf". Didn't learn much out it and I didn't became a fervent National Socialist after that. It is not a dangerous book. The problem is the nuts believing what is written in it...
nath
This collection of notes should have been required reading after the war.
griff
what's the point of school if people can only understand a text if it is watered down into a manga version?
WMD
I read Mein Kampf off the internet. Very interesting, a piece of history, nothing more.