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Originally Posted by HarryT
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Originally Posted by faltradl
You are not right.
It's legal to own it and to read it. And it's legal to buy the old books from antiquarian booksellers. - Or short: The book isn't illegal.
It might be a Problem, when there is a poster in the shop window.
The only way was, to use the copyright to prevent new reprinted copys. (Of course they could rule only selling it in germany.) That's why the federal state Bavaria is using the copyright so restrictive.
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Promoting Nazi ideology is illegal, though, isn't it? There would be a very strong argument that reprinting the original book unaltered would constitute promotion of Nazi ideology. |
But owning an old one, or buying it in an second hand bookshop isn't promoting the ideology. And the german second hand bookshops are allowed to sell them. Of course they will not make big sales promotion.
Even plenty of germans think it's a forbidden book. But it isn't. The best proof ist the fear, that after the ending of copyright at once new reprints will be on offer. In ordinary bookshops. So they decided to start annotated academic version. To let historical interested people not allone with the disastrous original text.
P.S.
The same idea 1988 with an annotated diary of Anne Frank. Of course it no nasty book. But it's an good idea to give more background information.
And 1992 an new edition of the common edition, because her father revised it very much.