Germany's Bavaria state has pledged to maintain an effective post-war ban on Adolf Hitler's manifesto Mein Kampf, sparking a dispute over academic freedom, according to an AFP report. Since World War II, copyright holder Bavaria has blocked any reprints of the 1924 book, in which Hitler railed against the "Jewish peril" and set the philosophical framework for the Holocaust. The book is technically not illegal in Germany, but a reprint in German has not been issued in the country since the war to Read more [...]

Last week, a number of news headlines suggested that the German state of Bavaria was trying to "ban" Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. In fact, no such thing had happened. What had taken place was that Bavaria's minister president, the Christian Social Union (CSU) politician Horst Seehofer, had gone back on a commitment to fund a critical, academic edition of the book, set to be published just before copyright runs out on 1 January 2016.The finance ministry of Bavaria, where the publishing house behind Read more [...]

A small German town has sparked outrage by refusing to scrap Adolf Hitler's honorary citizenship. Politicians in Dietramszell, Bavaria, voted against removing the Fuhrer from their books after it emerged he was given the keys to the city in 1933. RELATED: POOR PUP LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE ADOLF HITLER They claimed it would be a "distortion of history" and would prefer to debate more contemporary issues. But critics said the refusal of the town to disassociate itself from the brutal dictator is Read more [...]