Publisher backs down on Mein Kampf plans

A British publisher has backtracked on plans to sell excerpts of Mein Kampf in Germany in the face of strong public pressure and a court ruling forbidding it’s publication. 

• Mein Kampf headed for German newsstands - National (15 Jan 12)

The Munich District Court issued an injunction on behalf of the Bavarian state Wednesday preventing British publisher Peter McGee from following through with his plan to begin distributing portions of Adolf Hitler's book on Thursday.

McGee said portions of the book would now be distributed with hisZeitungszeugen (newspaper witnesses) product of Nazi-era newspaper reprints, but it would be blurred out so Germans can’t read the words.

“We must ensure that our main publication Zeitungszeugen is not put at risk,” McGee said, said, saying that the blurring would prevent the government from seizing his publication. 


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