[mj72]

I am currently reading Richard Evans "Coming of the Third Reich" and was just thinking about Mein Kampf. Here in Canada Heather Reiseman (Chapters Indigo) had refused to sell it at one point. I found myself being outraged at the "censorship" but then again, being Jewish herself I see her point of view. So then I am tossing around all these thoughts like "no one who would read the book would become an anti-semite" and "The importance of using it as a historical reference for the beginnings of Nazi Germany".

But I wonder how societies place the label "hate literature" on something? Is it because the book is so old and out of touch with the contemporary world that it's now more acceptable?

The more I think about this, the more I don't know how to reconcile censorship with publishing something as offensive as Mein Kampf.

Does anyone else have thoughts on this?

mj