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Don't know if this is the right thread, but...
Would you read Mein Kampf by Hitler ?
The book is being published again after 70 years.
Personally I think it is a historical document and there should be no shame in reading it.
What do others think ?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-...s-to-german-bookstores-after-70-years/7078054
Would you read Mein Kampf by Hitler ?
The book is being published again after 70 years.
Personally I think it is a historical document and there should be no shame in reading it.
What do others think ?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-...s-to-german-bookstores-after-70-years/7078054
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It's been available for sale outside Germany since it was written. I think I remember my school library had a copy. It's not particularly interesting.
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It's unlikely to become a bestseller. Those few surviving idiots that still mourn his passing will have saved a copy; plenty were picked up by members of the Allied Forces and sent home.
Anybody else, except for some Historians, won't get much pleasure out of reading it. You won't find a drier, more boring rant full of twisted logic. It's so dull and dry, you could send a copy to Queensland after a cyclone, or right now to Northern UK, to mop up those flooded paddocks and towns. Two copies might be enough to turn the English Channel into a land bridge between Britain and the Continent.
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Brief commentary to ABC's report:
Politically, today's population should be sufficiently well educated not to be swayed by the rants.
(Always excepting the lunatic fringe that has been, and will continue to be, stuck in the old rut.)
Therefore, I reckon a reprint needn't be suppressed. A ban would amount to another case of thought control in a vain attempt of enforced Political Correctness. Let people see how one man's insanity could infect an entire Nation, when the citizens at the time failed to read and think about the consequences of his manifesto.
Incidentally: The translation of "Mein Kampf", offered as "My Struggle" in the ABC article, isn't quite on target. In the context, "My Battle" or "Get Up and Fight!" would be more appropriate.
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It couldn't be any worse than The Guardian, surely?:
... or Donald Trump, comng to think of it
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I have tried to read it, it's a bit like the bible, it's very hard to read the full text, after a chapter you find yourself realising there is a lot better things you could be reading.
I do however have an original German print version in book collection, along with a mint condition hitler youth knife and some other artefacts, it's just a facinating part of human history.
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There's a TV series based on, I think, Phillip K Dick's alternate history of the world if Japan and Germany had won WW2 - The Man in the White Castle I think it's called.
Saw a bit of it and it could be interesting. With Hitler aging, the US being divided between Japan and Nazi Germany...
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That dried ha?
You read it? Wow. I remember it's a very thick book, with small print too.
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yup, it took me quite some time to get through it; but I did want to know what all the fuss had been about. What better way than to borrow a copy (from the son of a Lutheran pastor, no less
) and get the goss first hand, rather than trust my Elders who had been personally involved. Whether for or against, they couldn't help but have a biased opinion.Incidentally, since you mentioned the Bible in this context: I did notice a few parallels between the two. Not only were they the two books most likely to be found in every German bookshelf during the 12 years the 1000-year Reich lasted; but they were probably also the two books least read and understood by their owners. Furthermore, they both present a case for their protagonists to be "The Chosen People", a view presented at an intermediate time (7th Century AD if you didn't guess) for yet another People by yet another "Leader".
The realisation of those parallels greatly contributed to my turning agnostic bordering on atheism.
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No, I haven't read it, Rumpole, but like most girls, read 'The Diary of Anne Frank'.
In saying that, my grandparents overseas took in, and hid a few people through that time.
I read it when I was in my early 20s. I don't remember it in great detail, but I remember the first part (or Volume) was more auto-biographical in nature and a lot more interesting to read.
The second Volume on the NS movement was, as others have said, fairly dry, mainly because it required a lot of historical knowledge (which admittedly I didn't have nearly enough and probably still don't).
In all honesty, it never struck me as a "dangerous book." If anything it's a good example of how convincing and charismatic he was at the time to a lot of people.
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Who is responsible for this ?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-25/aurukun-teachers-evacuated-for-second-time/7444630
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-25/aurukun-teachers-evacuated-for-second-time/7444630
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From Tarzan's Grip all the way down to unleaded petrol?
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Makes you wonder if governments should up stumps and leave it to the residents to sort out their own problems.
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Probably be howls of protest form the arabic brigade that it is unfair to allow aborigines to kill each other, while prohibiting them killing everyone else.
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From as far back as I can remember, right to the day I turned 18, my parents knew they would be held accountable for everything I might mess up. So they made sure I was aware of the concept of "your action = your responsibility." And on the few occasions when I slipped up, they accepted their responsibility for my actions, but most definitely made me share the experience by "feeling" the consequences.
I guess it worked. I still can stuff up with the best of them. But when I do, I don't blame Tarzan's Grip, Jack Daniels, or Johnny Walker.
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I assume you are saying it's the parent's fault and I agree.
Maybe it's time to put the parents in gaol along with their kids.
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Banana throwing woman banned for being racist. She appeared to be a whitey so there must be a mistake.
