MUNICH (dpa) – A German ban on publishing long extracts from Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” was upheld Thursday by a Munich court, dashing the hopes of a British publisher to use the dictator's own words in a history magazine. All Hitler's written works remain covered by copyright in Germany until 2015, 70 years after his suicide, and authorities routinely refuse licenses to publish them. The Nazi leader's book, published in two parts 1925-26, claimed Jews were to blame for Germany's ills. The court rejected arguments by a British company, Albertas, and its chief, Peter McGee, that extracts from the book could be reprinted as long as the whole two-volume book was not republished. McGee's Zeitungszeugen is a weekly facsimile collection of newspapers from 79 years ago with accompanying historical articles. McGee wants to re-publish pages from 1933 newspapers and other documents this year, and continue to track German media until the Nazi defeat in 1945. The state court in Munich ruled the magazine could not rely on an exemption allowing short quotations for scholarly purposes. It upheld a temporary restraining injunction obtained against McGee in January by the German state of Bavaria. Zeitungszeugen blacked out the Mein Kampf quotes in a series of issues after that ruling. McGee said in January that banning Mein Kampf had led to a “bizarre” mystification among younger Germans of Hitler's “revolting” text. Germany has been powerless to stop its republication in other nations. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/0mORx Tags: Banned, Germany, Hitler, Kampf, Mein Section: Europe, Latest News
