(Newser) – Mein Kampf is coming back. The copyright on Hitler's "anti-Semitic manifesto" expires Read more [...]

At 19:40 local time, the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) informed the Munich police that they had received information about 5-7 Islamic State (IS, ISIS / ISIL) suicide bombers preparing a terrorist attack on the city, Munich police chief Hubertus Andrä said at a press conference.Andrä added that there are 550 officers deployed in Munich right now, but they have yet to find any indication of an imminent threat.The exact location and time of the allegedly planned attacks were given, which alarmed Read more [...]

In the United States, Mein Kampf has never been prohibited, though some Jewish organizations opposed the sale of the book in 1933, at a time when populist demagogues were spreading their vitriolic anti-Semitism. Mein Kampf was not even banned when the United States went to war against Nazi Germany. In fact, the book’s U.S. publisher, Houghton Mifflin, urged Americans to study Mein Kampf as part of their patriotic responsibilities, and advertised it in The New York Times Book Review in 1944. U.S. Read more [...]

When Gerhard Weinberg returned to Germany in 1962, he hadn’t seen his hometown of Hannover for more than twenty years. The buildings on his old street, rebuilt after the relentless bombings of the war, looked brand new. He stopped across the street from his family’s old apartment building. “I burst out laughing,” Weinberg remembered. He thought to himself that British bombers must have had very good aim. “The one building they didn’t hit was the one we had lived in.”That house Read more [...]