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August 26, 1999
Croatian Edition Of Mein Kampf Can't Be Banned
Croatia's state attorney Berislav Zivkovic on Wednesday said a
Croatian edition of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" could not be banned
legally in the Balkans country, a Croatian daily reported.
"It is not possible to implement such a ban in Croatia," Zivkovic
told the Novi List daily explaining that procedures for imposing
the ban should be conducted under a law on the prevention of
abuse of freedom of the press and other information, dating from
1976, which was no longer valid.
Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust and a founder
of the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna, on Monday called on
the government of the German state of Bavaria, which has the
copyright of Mein Kampf, to ban the book's Croatian edition.
However, Zivkovic said that it was not yet clear whether the
publishing house Croatiaprojekt had publishing rights for
Hitler's book.
He stressed that under Croatian criminal law it would be possible
to press charges against the editor of a book like Mein Kampf if
he supported its contents.
The book's editor and publisher Franjo Letic said Monday that
there was "no reason for Simon Wiesenthal to request a ban,"
arguing that it "would be counter-productive."
"'Mein Kampf' has been published in Croatia in 2,000 copies since
mid-June, according to Letic, and one third of the copies have
been sold so far. ((c) 1999 Agence France Presse)
Lead-in to article from
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990823/wr/tech_hitler_4.html
Monday August 23 4:52 AM ET
Bertelsmann Pulls 'Mein Kampf' From Online Shop
By Deborah Cole
BERLIN (Reuters) - German media giant Bertelsmann Friday pulled
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf from its BOL online book store after
being accused in Germany of selling hate literature.
BOL's German and Dutch services have never sold Hitler's
autobiographical manifesto, written in prison several years
before he led the Nazi party to power in 1933 and full of
anti-Semitic tirades, because the book is banned there.
But BOL said it would stop offering the book on its English and
French services to prevent Germans buying it anyway.
End lead-in
Well: apparently the solution to education about the worser
periods of history is to ignorance-denial-hiding that period and
its primary resource material. Perhaps it's because the book
describes the writer's attitudes towards certain people -- as
far back as the '20s -- that might prove to be embarrassing
(i.e., even *I* would have gotten the point). Additionally,
start banning books then they become collectors' items (i.e.,
important) and take on a whole new significance. Thus, as a
coveted item, it might provide some inspiration. It would be
interesting to see how the sales progress now that this new push
to pull the book is underway.
Then Croatia ... wasn't that one of the countries that marked
among the first ethnic cleansings of the Serbs? Go to
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/bookstore/voices/voices7.htm
for some additional information on this last item. So, wouldn't
a ban be a little late? AER
AER
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