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To: Tennessee Nana
From the article: Until now, the work had been owned by the Bavarian state government, which prevented any new editions being published in Germany for the standard term of 70 years after the death of the author.
3 posted on 01/14/2016 6:41:54 PM PST by KarlInOhio (CNBC = Clowns Neutered By Cruz)
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To: KarlInOhio; Olog-hai
Wasn't it available in Germany or something ???

Not only was it "simply unavailable" (because "out of print") - anyone attempting to bring in copies of it from outside Germany was subjected to intense scrutiny and required to justify themselves.

Thus, the commercial market was dead. (Because commercial vendors just didn't see the value of bothering.)

Additionally, anyone discovered (e.g., by customs officials) bringing in a privately-owned copy would, of course, been made to "pass through the gauntlet." He would have been required to demonstrate that his copy was a "critically annotated" edition - i.e., one containing abundant footnotes decrying Hitler as a madman.

Hence, it was essentially unprocurable.

Regards,

29 posted on 01/14/2016 9:18:57 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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