Walter van Holst wrote:
My guess is that restrictions on the sale of Mein Kampf have nothing to do with copyright, but rather with the fact that a number of European countries (including, I believe, Germany) ban the possession of the book.
Posession is legal here, offering it for sale is illegal though.
Trading is illegal only if the copy is a reprint made after 1945. Ironically, Hitler made himself a law prohibiting the second-hand resale of his book, thus increasing his revenues.
Some public libraries even carry it, but it may not be easy to borrow it. I doubt that this situation will last very long, however.
At the rate the German government is going, most likely they will start presenting a copy to all new-married couples before long. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org