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Originally Posted by Frenzie
Is it hyperbolic if it's real? Mein Kampf wasn't available for purchase until a couple of years ago because it was still under copyright. That copyright was (ab)used to censor the work. Of course it's an exceptional situation, but still.  |
Copyright affected publication in Germany, but not other countries.
How available
Mein Kampf and its sequel were, literally depended upon what country you lived in. Some countries banned both books. Some countries banned one book, but not the other. I have forgotten which country allowed
Mein Kampf, but banned the sequel. More common was to allow the second book, whilst banning the first.
Much more common was publishers, and distributors deciding that publishing either book would be a guaranteed instant money losing proposition. (A long time ago, I read a publisher in the "White Supremacy" publishing niche explain how and why the economics of publishing
Mein Kampf didn't work for his organization.)