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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.
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You might want to re-read what I wrote. I certainly didn't claim that private possession, or reading it, was illegal. It isn't. But making it accessible to a minor is, so if you have a copy at home and you have minors in the house, your copy must, under any reasonable interpretation of the law, be kept under lock (hence the "within certain limitations").
As for the trade, sure, selling single, antiquarian copies is not distribution, but selling or otherwise distributing a new print run of non-trivial size would be. And selling to minors is still covered by the law and therefor illegal, as is publishing a freely available e-book version (§130 (2) 2 StGB).
It's §86 StGB which makes the whole situation interesting, because that's where the exemptions for serving for art, science, research, education and reporting come from which motivate the new annotated version.