Today September 15 2016 is 100th birth anniversary of Margaret Lockwood (1916-1990)
Mein Kampf in translation has been a popular book in Marathi.
And then I came across this:
Mein Kampf in translation has been a popular book in Marathi.
“One of the welcome developments of the new year is the
republication in Germany, for the first time since World War II, of—yes,
gulp—Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto was re-released in
a new, highly annotated academic edition, in German. With 3,500 footnotes and
nearly 2,000 pages in two volumes, the new book is more than twice as long as
Hitler’s 782-page original...
...While the lifting of one of the last postwar prohibitions in
Germany has to be seen as a sign of civic maturity, Germans are still, to some
extent, afraid of their own shadows. The conference of state justice ministers,
who enforce laws like incitement to hatred, have said they will prosecute
anyone who publishes a non-annotated version of Mein Kampf. Even today, the
naked text is treated like the unexploded ordnance of German history..."
I watched Carol Reed's 'Night Train to Munich', 1940 on YouTube'. I did it primarily for attractive looks as well as very good acting of Margaret Lockwood.
And then I came across this:
display at Berlin train station book stall
both pictures above courtesy: 20th Century Fox