Hitler Book Flying Off Shelves In India
 Friday, May 8th, 2009  by Connie T.

Have you ever read Spencer Johnson's "Who Moved My Cheese?" Lots of people consider it to be some sort of business bible. I, personally, thought it was extremely overrated (and not very nice to mice, either, not that that was the point of it); but it spent five years on the New York Times Business Best Seller List.

Well, apparently, Adolf Hitler's autobiography "Mein Kampf" ("My Fight" or "My Struggle") is becoming sort of a "Who Moved My Cheese?" in India.

The UK Telegraph reports that sales over the last six months exceeded 10,000 copies in New Delhi alone, and that leading stores there say the memoir in political theory is becoming more popular every year.

Pardon my bloguage, but WTH...?

"Students are increasingly coming in asking for it and we're happy to sell it to them," said one store owner. "They see it as a kind of success story where one man can have a vision, work out a plan on how to implement it and then successfully complete it."

A Philosophy Professor disagrees the popularity is primarily among students, saying that the book has "likely influenced some of the fascist organizations operating in India and nearby." The copyright to the book in Germany is owned by the state of Bavaria which has banned the book until the year 2015.

Winston Churchill called the tome "the...Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message."

We don't believe that any type of literature should be censored from the public. But are you at all alarmed with these statistics? And would it be beneficial for publishers (internationally) to perhaps add a preface to "Mein Kampf" with a factual biography of the crimes and reprisals committed by Hitler, in order that the book be realistically understood?

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