Books: Copyright Confusion

It has been said of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, Nazi imperialist bible, that in it Hitler wrote the history of Europe from 1933 to the indefinite future. Most observers agree that, Adolf Hitler being what he now is in the world, Mein Kampf is hot political dope. But for U. S. readers, two-thirds of Mein Kampf is a closed book. The only U. S. edition (Houghton Mifflin, published in 1933) was heavily expurgated, the suppressed sections referring to Hitler's designs on central and eastern Europe, South America, the democracies generally.

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