Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Polish publisher sentenced to prison for "Mein Kampf".

Polish publisher issuing excerpts from the book of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf", received three months jail on probation for two years and sentenced to a fine of 2271 euros. That was reported by AFP on Monday, May 25.
The court in Wroclaw (city in south-west Poland) sentenced the publisher, named for the press as C. Marek (Marek S.), in a case initiated by the Bavarian authorities.
According to the AFP, the right of publication of a book by Hitler that the German soil since 1945. The authorities of the land shall ensure that the ideas of Nazism did not apply and is not promoted.
Publisher XXL, owned by Marek S., published in 2005, the 20 thousandth edition excerpts from "Mein camphene. After the German authorities have filed a lawsuit in 2007, the clerks removed the book publisher from the shelves of book stores, nerasprodannuyu of copies destroyed.
According to the AFP, Bavaria often similar lawsuits filed against the publishers of the book Hitler.

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