Then the author must have been on to something, huh?
"‘Mein Kampf’: A historical tool, or Hitler’s voice from beyond the grave?" by Anthony Faiola, Washington Post February 24, 2015
MUNICH — Old copies of the offending tome are kept in a secure “poison cabinet,” a literary danger zone in the dark recesses of the vast Bavarian State Library. A team of experts vets every request to see one, keeping the toxic text away from the prying eyes of the idly curious or those who might seek to exalt it.
“This book is too dangerous for the general public,” library historian Florian Sepp warned as he carefully laid a first edition of “Mein Kampf” — Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto of hate — on a table in a restricted reading room.
That's a very interesting take from those claiming to defend freedom of speech against terrorists, isn't it?
Never mind that the writings are old and outdated today (in fact, they actually served as a warning) in most peoples minds, and well they should be. That was almost 90 years ago now.
It crossed my mind that maybe those opposed would like to burn the copies that come off the presses, but then, you know, they would be like, well, you know, those other guys, right?
Nevertheless, the book that once served as a kind of Nazi bible, banned from domestic reprints since the end of World War II, will soon be returning to German bookstores from the Alps to the Baltic Sea.
The prohibition on reissue for years was upheld by the state of Bavaria, which owns the German copyright and legally blocked attempts to duplicate it. But those rights expire in December, and the first new print run here since Hitler’s death is due out early next year. The new edition is a heavily annotated volume in its original German that is stirring an impassioned debate over history, anti-Semitism and the latent power of the written word.
The book’s reissue, to the chagrin of critics, is effectively being financed by German taxpayers, who fund the historical society that is producing and publishing the new edition. Rather than a how-to guidebook for the aspiring fascist, the new reprint, the group said this month, will instead be a vital academic tool, a 2,000-page volume packed with more criticisms and analysis than the original text.
Sorry I've gone so sour on this pri$m of a paper, folks.
I've seen it said many times: the truth never fears investigation.
This horrible man from history would thus be exposed were his book more widely available, right?
Then where is the danger? It would be an alarm bell for the agenda-pushing propaganda campaign of endless Jewish victimhood, right?
Or are there other ideas in there that are nothing like what we have been told and there might even be a few good ones?
Still, opponents are aghast, in part because the book is coming out at a time of rising anti-Semitism in Europe and as the English and other foreign-language versions of “Mein Kampf” — unhindered by the German copyrights — are in the midst of a global renaissance.
That is actually not true, but don't let the lie spoil the narrative for you.
Although authorities here struck deals with online sellers such as Amazon.com to prohibit sales in Germany, new copies of “Mein Kampf” have become widely available via the Internet around the globe.
That is censorship.
In retail stores in India, it is enjoying strong popularity as a self-help book for Hindu nationalists. A comic-book edition was issued in Japan. A new generation of aficionados is also rising among the surging ranks of the far right in Europe. The neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in Greece, for instance, has stocked “Mein Kampf” at its bookstore in Athens.
Yeah, right, the whole world is going Nazi.
I'm tired of the labeling of anyone who disagrees with the Jew World Order, and tired of this violin victimhood constantly promoted by the propaganda pre$$.
Regardless of the academic context provided by the new volume, critics say the new German edition will ultimately allow Hitler’s voice to rise from beyond the grave.
They have been keeping his ghost alive for 70 years now so why stop?
“I am absolutely against the publication of ‘Mein Kampf,’ even with annotations. Can you annotate the Devil? Can you annotate a person like Hitler?” said Levi Salomon, spokesman for the Berlin-based Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism. “This book is outside of human logic.”
Not surprisingly, the new edition has become a political hot potato, illustrating the always-awkward question of how modern Germany should deal with its past.
Why are they being singled out for their past?
Initially, Bavaria, for instance, had pledged $575,000 to directly support publication of the new edition for historical purposes. But it backed out after the Bavarian governor’s 2012 visit to Israel, where he heard withering criticism of the proposal from Holocaust survivors.
That left the state-funded organization putting out the new edition — the Munich-based Institute of Contemporary History — in a bind. Since the late 1940s, the institute has analyzed the rise and aftermath of the Nazi era, putting out annotated texts such as Hitler’s speeches. The single most important work it has not yet published in annotated form is, in fact, “Mein Kampf.” Since 2012, it has had a team of academics laboring on the new edition in preparation for the copyright’s expiry.
Despite the chorus of opposition, particularly from Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors, the institute has opted to go ahead with publication, funding it from its general budget — a task made easier by the fact that Bavaria allowed it to keep the original grant for other research purposes.
So when is the Zionist-run false flag attack due for Germany?
A rambling, repetitive work panned by literary critics for its pedantic style, “Mein Kampf” was drafted by Hitler in a Bavarian jail after the failed Nazi uprising in Munich in November 1923.
That is where the print article ended.
“I understand some immediately feel uncomfortable when a book that played such a dramatic role is made available again to the public,” said Magnus Brechtken, the institute’s deputy director. “On the other hand, I think that this is also a useful way of communicating historical education and enlightenment — a publication with the appropriate comments, exactly to prevent these traumatic events from ever happening again.”
I get that feeling every day after I've flipped through a Boston Globe, so....
It was initially published in two volumes in 1925 and 1926, with later, joint editions forming a kind of Nazi handbook. During the Third Reich, some German cities doled out copies to Aryan newlyweds as wedding gifts.
The book also laid the groundwork for the Holocaust, stating, for instance, that Jews are and “will remain the eternal parasite, a freeloader that, like a malignant bacterium, spreads rapidly whenever a fertile breeding ground is made available to it.”
Unfortunately, looking at the world today, he has been proved right.
Contrary to popular belief, “Mein Kampf” — or “My Struggle” — was never banned in postwar Germany; only its reprinting was. Of the more than 12.4 million copies in existence before 1945, hundreds of thousands are thought to survive. Old copies can still be sold in antiquarian bookstores. But public access is generally confined to a few restricted repositories such as the library here in Munich, which only permits viewings based on academic need or historical research. Bavarian authorities also have played cat-and-mouse with those who have sought to publish “Mein Kampf” online, acting to block German-language versions posted on the Internet whenever possible.
Brechtken said the new print version will point out, for instance, how Hitler appeared to borrow his views from other sources, and it will refute his racist claims.
Related:
"Winston Churchill favored gassing “uncivilized tribes” because “the Aryan stock is bound to triumph.”
Interesting.
I'm even starting to wonder if Hitler was the racist monster claimed by the self-serving Jewi$h pre$$. All I know is what I have been told by my ejewkhazional and ma$$ media $y$tems. You find out later he met with Africans, Arabs, and Asians and his government worked with some, well.... what are we to believe, and are we to believe the chosen pri$m of a source?
Maybe I will just have to read the book, huh?
Bavarian officials also say they will seek to apply incitement-to-hate laws to any attempt to publish unannotated versions in the future. But so far, they say they will not seek to block publication of the institute’s expanded version, citing the benefits it may bring to historical research.
There has already been loads of research, and those digging for truth have been jailed and slandered as deniers for questioning any version of the official account and its holy numbers.
Yet vocal opposition appears to be growing. Charlotte Knobloch, head of the Jewish community in Munich, said she had not vigorously opposed it when the project first surfaced. But her position, she said, hardened after hearing from outraged Holocaust survivors.
“This book is most evil; it is the worst anti-Semitic pamphlet and a guidebook for the Holocaust,” she said. “It is a Pandora’s box that, once opened again, cannot be closed.”
It's been lying around open for decades and yet look where we are.
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I guess the Globe didn't want you to see what was in print (even if it took them a week).
Related: Sunday Globe Special: Hilarious Hitler
I am $ensing a theme as I so often do when it comes to the Sunday Globe, and some not finding it so funny.
Related: ‘Fifty Shades’ returned to the shelves at BC bookstore
Yeah, books shouldn't be banned no matter how sickeningly disgusting they are.
"Dell Williams, 92; founder of sex shop catering to women" by Margalit Fox, New York Times March 15, 2015
NEW YORK — Dell Williams, who in 1974, after being humiliated by a department-store clerk when she tried to buy a vibrator, was moved to start Eve’s Garden, a New York boutique widely described as the nation’s first sex shop catering specifically to women, died Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 92.
Her death was confirmed by a friend, Mary Elizabeth Greene-Cohen.
A former actress, advertising executive, and Army WAC, Ms. Williams was for four decades a nationally known advocate of women’s liberation, sexuality, and sexual health — a stance founded on the premise, as she often put it, that “women have a right to sexual expression.”
I'm not saying they do not, but I'm not saying that is liberation either. Some would even say it has led to exploitation.
She was consulted frequently by the news media on subjects including sex toys on Valentine’s Day; the use of vibrators; and the furor around a 2003 song by Britney Spears, “Touch of My Hand,” which celebrates female masturbation.
Remember Joycelyn Elders getting in trouble for that?
“In the past 50 years or so, even as the medicinal and moral fears of masturbation have ebbed, the stigma still remains — and that’s what is shameful,” Ms. Williams said at the time. “Hopefully, Britney’s honesty and her song can help women overcome feelings of embarrassment and instead embrace something so natural.”
When Ms. Williams founded Eve’s Garden at her kitchen table, discussions of female sexuality in general, and female orgasm in particular, had long been taboo. What sex shops there were — mostly seamy red-light-district affairs — were owned by, and catered to, men.
Today, thanks partly to her work, the women’s sex-product industry is a multimillion-dollar concern nationwide.
Begun as a mail-order business, Eve’s Garden has for decades operated a discreet brick-and-mortar store from an upper floor of a Manhattan office building. For the timid or the out-of-town, the shop still sells by mail order and, in recent years, via a website, www.evesgarden.com.
Among its offerings are myriad vibrators, including a model made famous by an episode of the TV show “Sex and the City”; mint-, cola-, and banana-flavored condoms; and a welter of “Fifty Shades of Grey”-licensed products, including the Submit to Me Beginners Bondage Kit, at $60, slashed down from $70.
OMG!
Ban books but don't ban torture! Just call it female liberation!
The shop also sells books, including Ms. Williams’s memoir, “Revolution in the Garden” (2005), written with Lynn Vannucci. The book chronicles her theatrical training with the Method actor Paul Mann, her life in the Communist Party and the feminist movement, her Army career, and, in her words, “how a nice Jewish girl from the Bronx ended up owning a sex-toy store.”
That is who is behind all the perversions and pornography, folks, and it is promoted by their pre$$. I wish it were not true, but they are the ones behind the culture and family-destroying agenda.
The daughter of Isaac Zetlin and the former Sarah Bronstein, Dell Zetlin was born in Manhattan on Aug. 5, 1922, and reared in the Bronx.
Her given name, according to family legend, was in honor of socialist journalist Floyd Dell, a staunch champion of birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger. The surname Williams, which she adopted in adulthood, appears to be a variant of the surname of a man to whom she was briefly married.
That's a very interesting role model considering how much the Jewish pre$$ cares about civil rights and racism (btw, did you know Susan B. Anthony opposed abortion?).
When she was an older teenager, Ms. Williams’s memoir recounts, she was raped by a date. Later, after a brief wartime romance, she became pregnant and underwent a painful, terrifying illegal abortion.
In 1945, Ms. Williams enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps. As an entertainment specialist at an Army hospital in Tuscaloosa, Ala., she produced and performed on a daily radio show broadcast to patients, and later toured military bases in a WAC musical. After her Army service, she was involved in theater in Los Angeles before returning to New York, where she pursued a career in advertising.
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Related:
"Bertrice Small, a convent-educated writer whose dozens of bodice-ripping romance novels titillated readers for decades, died Feb. 24. As a virtuoso in navigating the fine line between passionate romance and sophisticated smut, Ms. Small preferred to describe herself simply as “a nice lady who lived in the country and wrote books.”
I write blogs but I'm no lady.
Looks like "Shades of Grey" finally faded to black in favor of Cinderella.
Lew Soloff, 71; trumpeter for Blood, Sweat and Tears
I remember them from the 1976 Olympics.
Jimmy Greenspoon, 67; keyboardist with Three Dog Night
Who will ever forget ‘‘Joy to the World?’’
Oh, if I were king of the world..... (sob)
