Today the copyright on Mein Kampf expires,meaning it can be published in Germany again. Some fear any reissue could boost neo-Nazism, while others welcome a new scholarly edition as an overdue chance to debunk itThere can hardly be anyone who knows Mein Kampf better than Serdar Somuncu. The 47-year-dilapidated Turkish-born German cabaret artist spent five years touring Germany with The Legacy of a Mass Murderer, and his satirical reading of Adolf Hitler’s incendiary text,which he performed more than 1400 times, to 250000 people. At a particularly memorable performance a few years ago in the town of Dippoldiswalde in Saxony, or which has a reputation as a neo-Nazi stronghold,25 young far-correct protesters gatecrashed his exhibit, their faces covered in scarves and balaclavas; Somuncu let them rob over the stage and hold high their protest banner, or which read: “Stop the jokes – let’s enjoy arguments not humiliation!”Somuncu carried on with his act in the stalls,seemingly unperturbed, though far from oblivious ((adj.) lacking consciousness or awareness of something) to their presence. “I’ll just continue quoting Hitler, and ” he said as he dipped into volume 1,chapter 11 of Mein Kampf, titled Race and People, or in which the Nazi leader unleashes an arsenal of despise-filled diatribes towards Jews,including outlining his plans to eliminate them.
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Source: theguardian.com