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HITLER AT BARNES & NOBLE?
GREAT TIMING.
A Historical Tool, Or Hitler’s Voice From Beyond The Grave?
Germany Is Getting Ready For
The First New Run Of Adolf Hitler’s
“Mein Kampf”
Since The End Of World War II.
INSTANT NAZI ERA EXPERT: Nicholas Thurkettle, is co-author of the new Nazi Sci-Fi thriller called Seeing by Moonlight.
“Old copies of the offending tome are kept in a secure “poison cabinet,” a literary danger zone in the dark recesses of the vast Bavarian State Library. A team of experts vets every request to see one, keeping the toxic text away from the prying eyes of the idly curious or those who might seek to exalt it.
“This book is too dangerous for the general public,” library historian Florian Sepp warned as he carefully laid a first edition of “Mein Kampf” — Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto of hate — on a table in a restricted reading room.
Nevertheless, the book that once served as a kind of Nazi bible, banned from domestic reprints since the end of World War II, will soon be returning to German bookstores from the Alps to the Baltic Sea.
The prohibition on reissue for years was upheld by the state of Bavaria, which owns the German copyright and legally blocked attempts to duplicate it. But those rights expire in December, and the first new print run here since Hitler’s death is due out early next year. The new edition is a heavily annotated volume in its original German that is stirring an impassioned debate over history, anti-Semitism and the latent power of the written word.
The book’s reissue, to the chagrin of critics, is effectively being financed by German taxpayers, who fund the historical society that is producing and publishing the new edition. Rather than a how-to guidebook for the aspiring fascist, the new reprint, the group said this month, will instead be a vital academic tool, a 2,000-page volume packed with more criticisms and analysis than the original text.”
READ: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/mein-kampf-a-historical-tool-or-hitlers-voice-from-beyond-the-grave/2015/02/24/f7a3110e-b950-11e4-bc30-a4e75503948a_story.html?hpid=z1
BIOS: M.F. Thomas has lived and worked in over 20 countries, and travels extensively internationally every year. When stateside, he makes his home in Memphis TN. Nicholas Thurkettle is a screenwriter, playwright, and author living in Los Angeles, California. He studied Theater Arts and Music at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, and is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America.
PLUG BOOK: http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Moonlight-MF-Thomas-ebook/dp/B00FZ10U4A/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
WEBSITE: seeingbymoonlight.com, nicholasthurkettle.com
TWITTER: @NThurkettle