Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Fury over Mein Kampf in Swiss bookshops

We're living in an age where people are scared of books; words. Here in the Netherlands the book is banned too. If we are scared of books, imagine if someone would read the bible or koran... and believe in it and do what is said in there! Wait... that did happen! As long as bibles are sold, any book on any topic should be allowed to be sold too, to anyone who is interested.

Anti-racism groups have expressed indignation that Hitler’s book, “Mein Kampf” (“My Struggle”) is freely available in bookstores in the Swiss region of Romandie.

“How can the works on the origin of the Holocaust, written by the instigator of the worst horrors, be found on bookstore shelves?” asked lawyer and Geneva President of the League against Racism and Anti-Semitism, Philippe Kenel.

Yet according to booksellers, there is still demand for the controversial book, which was written by the Nazi leader in the 1920s, before his rise to power. Unlike in Germany, the book is not banned from sale in Switzerland.

http://www.thelocal.ch/3066/20120411/

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