Jan 102016
Two newsworthy events occurred in Germany at the turn of the new year: the copyright expired on noted socialist thought leader Adolph Hitler’s manifesto “Mein Kampf,” and a number of sexual assaults were reported, half by immigrants/refugees from the middle east. The two events are of course not related, but one might be tempted to suspect that a secondary result of the first event might be somewhat related to the second event:
New edition of Hitler’s Mein Kampf goes on sale in German bookshops and sells out instantly
The edition in question is a 59-euro TWO THOUSAND page “critical edition” (presumably with just a whole lot of new footnotes and commentary and such) that was limited to a print run of 4,000… but 15,000+ orders were made for it before publication.