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“Mein Kampf”:Adolf Hitler’s diatribe is e-book Bestseller at Amazon / Strange News

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When U.S. online retailer Amazon, there is the book division “propaganda and political psychology.” At its peak now the e-book version of is “Mein Kampf”. Why the diatribe sold abroad so numerous ?

A heated discussion about Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” had arisen in Germany in December: then, the Bavarian government had participated in an historical-critical edition zurückgezogen.Wie now, among other things, the British “Independent” reported experiencing the diatribe in the U.S. and Great Britain, a boom in the e-book market. In the U.S. Amazon immerse different versions on sale in the upper ranks.

On amazon.com has an edition for 99 cents the first place in the sales division ” propaganda and political psychology ” and the ninth in the theme session “globalization.” Both no giant lines – but a surprising list .
Became aware of the listing is the American journalist Chris Faraone . In an essay for the pop-culture platform vocative.com he writes: “People are curious, but do not want to get the book delivered to your home , have it stand in the living room on a shelf or even be seen with it in the subway. ”

The cheap copies on Reader could reader but simple – and especially anonymous – can delete or disappear in a folder. A similar argument applies for erotic literature such as ” 50 Shades of Grey” , Faraone writes in the essay .

In the U.S. and UK, the license rights have already been sold “Mein Kampf” in the thirties . In Germany, the Free State of Bavaria received from the Allies copyright and publishing rights to the book and withdrew after criticism from Holocaust victims and their families in December from the project of a critically annotated version return . A reprint is illegal. By 2015 , for 70 years after the death of Adolf Hitler in Germany will go out of copyright. Customers resident in Germany , however, the e-book of the Federal Republic of can not buy at Amazon.com .

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