Mein Kampf is effectively outlawed in Germany, except for academic study, but a British publisher wants to reprint excerpts and make them available in small brochures. Heather Horn grasps the bigger picture:
[F]ighting reprints is no protection against fascism, or even against poor taste and inflammatory rhetoric. Quite the contrary. This latest debate has a particularly nonsensical ring, as the attention has already been drawn — and the entire work is available on the internet anyway. But don't let the nonsense obscure what is truly an important point: either you believe in liberalism or you don't. And even if the letter of the German law isn't one of censorship — though legislating against the swastika and Holocaust denial suggests otherwise — the Bavarian state is misusing its power.
The Dish 