madnessmaka t1_iu3i9nh wrote on October 28, 2022 at 8:05 AM

Reply to comment by vegainthemirror in TIL that Fahrenheit 451, a book about a distopian future where books are banned and burned, was banned and burned by the apartheid regime in South Africa with other tens of thousands. by open_closet

I laugh thinking of his estate taking people to court over copyright infringement.

vegainthemirror t1_iu3j5j5 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 8:18 AM

It was less of an estate, but more of a general (governmental?) agreement that anything AH-/Mein Kampf-related was not allowed for use to the public. At least in german-speaking countries

Salty_Animator_4019 t1_iu4e5sg wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:51 PM

The government of the German state Bavaria took over the copyright from the original publisher after the Nazi time and tried to ensure that the book was not published other than perhaps in a scientific research context. This ended when the copyright ran out 70 years after Adolf Hitlers death.

A new, official version WITH critical annotations was made available, since this year also in a free edition on the internet (in German): https://www.mein-kampf-edition.de/