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Tango01 | 25 Jun 2016 12:36 p.m. PST |
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wrgmr1 | 25 Jun 2016 12:53 p.m. PST |
I read Mein Kampf many years ago, it revealed what a stark raving loon Hitler really was. |
Mako11 | 25 Jun 2016 2:34 p.m. PST |
I don't see why not, Armand. Books should not be censored, or made unavailable. |
Cyrus the Great | 25 Jun 2016 2:53 p.m. PST |
@Tango01, Did you read the article? This was be the annotated edition. It refutes the writings of Hitler. It sold out in hours after its release. |
15th Hussar | 25 Jun 2016 5:15 p.m. PST |
What Cyrus said, this has been all over the news for the past week or so. |
Northern Monkey | 26 Jun 2016 4:45 a.m. PST |
What's worse, banning books or burning them? |
ThePeninsularWarin15mm | 26 Jun 2016 5:32 a.m. PST |
@Northern Monkey, depends what the books are. You don't even know why the books were burned, as most of us Americans are fed partial details of WWII. It's not a book I would buy but if others want to buy it and read it, I support their right to do so. |
tberry7403 | 26 Jun 2016 7:17 a.m. PST |
So Nazi's had GOOD reasons for burning books? |
ThePeninsularWarin15mm | 26 Jun 2016 9:41 a.m. PST |
Tberry, what types of books did they burn? If you don't know the answer then please drop the immature sarcasm. |
toofatlardies | 26 Jun 2016 12:15 p.m. PST |
Among the authors the Nazis banned and their books consequently burnt were Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Max Brod, Otto Dix, Alfred Döblin, Albert Einstein, Friedrich Engels, Lion Feuchtwanger, Marieluise Fleißer, Leonhard Frank, Sigmund Freud, Iwan Goll, George Grosz, Jaroslav Haek, Werner Hegemann, Heinrich Heine, Ödön von Horvath, Heinrich Eduard Jacob, Franz Kafka, Georg Kaiser, Erich Kästner, Alfred Kerr, Egon Kisch, Siegfried Kracauer, Karl Kraus, Theodor Lessing, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Karl Liebknecht, Georg Lukács, Rosa Luxemburg, Heinrich Mann, Klaus Mann, Ludwig Marcuse, Karl Marx, Robert Musil, Carl von Ossietzky, Erwin Piscator, Alfred Polgar, Erich Maria Remarque, Ludwig Renn, Joachim Ringelnatz, Joseph Roth, Nelly Sachs, Felix Salten, Anna Seghers, Arthur Schnitzler, Carl Sternheim, Bertha von Suttner, Ernst Toller, Kurt Tucholsky, Jakob Wassermann, Frank Wedekind, Franz Werfel, Grete Weiskopf, Arnold Zweig Stefan Zweig, Victor Hugo, André Gide, Romain Rolland, Henri Barbusse, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, John Dos Passos, and Helen Keller, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Maxim Gorki, Isaac Babel, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Nabokov, Leo Tolstoy, Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Ilya Ehrenburg. These were categorised variously as works of traitors, emigrants and authors from foreign countries who believe they can attack and denigrate the new Germany, the literature of Marxism, Communism and Bolshevism, pacifist literature, literature with liberal, democratic tendencies and attitudes, and writings supporting the Weimar Republic. All historical writings whose purpose is to denigrate the origin, the spirit and the culture of the German Volk, or to dissolve the racial and structural order of the Volk, or that denies the force and importance of leading historical figures in favor of egalitarianism and the masses, and which seeks to drag them through the mud. Writings of a philosophical and social nature whose content deals with the false scientific enlightenment of primitive Darwinism and Monism. Books that advocate "art" which is decadent, bloodless, or purely constructivist, writings on sexuality and sexual education which serve the egocentric pleasure of the individual and thus, completely destroy the principles of race and Volk. The decadent, destructive and Volk-damaging writings of "Asphalt and Civilization" literati. Literature by Jewish authors, regardless of the field;Popular entertainment literature that depicts life and life's goals in a superficial, unrealistic and sickly sweet manner, based on a bourgeois or upper class view of life; Nationalistic and patriotic kitsch in literature. Also pornography and explicit literature by Jewish authors and all books degrading German purity. We DO know what books they burnt, both by type and which specific authors they were. |
GGouveia | 26 Jun 2016 12:58 p.m. PST |
A now former friend of mine has a ww2 german version that was given to an SS officer. He paid about 400 for it. Came in a case and everything. My wife and I went there for dinner almost 2 years ago. After dinner we had a conversation about Adolph and how history would have been so different if that one Brit soldier pulled the trigger on Adolph in ww1. My ex friend then went on a rant about Adolph being a great man etc. . I was also shown before dinner a diorama in 1/35 scale he was making from a ww2 SS picture of an officer about to shoot a Jewish man in the head and a trench full of executed jews. He was planning on entering this horrid diorama in a modelling competition. I was appalled. Anyways I have not contacted him since. Wierdo. |
Tango01 | 26 Jun 2016 1:06 p.m. PST |
This is a book that have to desapear… Amicalement Armand |
15th Hussar | 26 Jun 2016 1:32 p.m. PST |
No, Tango…it must NEVER disappear! I hate it, despise it and it's author…but it needs to be out there in the public view, ignored mainly, acted upon hopefully never again…but we need it (and others of its ilk) for a reminder…for ever! |
Zargon | 26 Jun 2016 2:00 p.m. PST |
Agree, as vile and loony as it is it needs to make us never forget. Never Again. |
GGouveia | 26 Jun 2016 2:28 p.m. PST |
I agree Zargon, it's part of history and it's ok for it to be published if not to show how utterly insane thus man really was. |
toofatlardies | 27 Jun 2016 2:51 a.m. PST |
I have to say that I read it in an un-notated format and you really do not need a commentary saying "he's being very naughty here", it is bleedin' obvious how wrong headed he is. What is more, it is badly constructed, utterly erratic and contradicts itself many times over. It is truly a shoddy piece of work. Anyone inspired by it should be in an asylum. That said, it should never be banned. People need to see how daft it is. |
GGouveia | 27 Jun 2016 6:25 a.m. PST |
Richard, well said asylum indeed. |
jpattern2 | 27 Jun 2016 6:36 a.m. PST |
As others have said, neither banned nor burned, but exposed for the ravings of a madman that it is. |
Legion 4 | 27 Jun 2016 9:53 a.m. PST |
The resurgent Nationalist movement in Germany may appreciate it. The influx of refugees from all over the islamic world seems to upset some. But I guess that could almost have been expected. The economic burden alone may seem too much for many to digest. But we must never forget history … |
Tango01 | 27 Jun 2016 10:50 a.m. PST |
Maybe you are right my friends… Amicalement Armand |
GGouveia | 27 Jun 2016 10:25 p.m. PST |
Also look at the increase of violence vs minorities in England after Brexit. And that's another conversation how can 50% plus 1 mean an exit out of the EU. I don't get it. Should it not be 65% minimum to decide something so huge. An English lady I work was shocked and said a huge petition is going around England to bring a motion to Senate but the result is that the initial vote was set on the motion of 50 % plus 1. Wow. |
jpattern2 | 28 Jun 2016 5:42 a.m. PST |
The petition your coworker mentioned is closing in on the 4 million mark. |
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