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CakeDayisaLie t1_iu4aao9 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that Fahrenheit 451, a book about a distopian future where books are banned and burned, was banned and burned by the apartheid regime in South Africa with other tens of thousands. by open_closet

Mein Kampf was accessible to me as a 4th grader in my private Christian schools library lol. No idea why.

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Wide-Composer-7230 t1_iu5vbz3 wrote

Yeah I took out Mein kampf from my public library.

I was just curious as a history major who took so many World War II history courses in college.

I read it in English and thought that it was terribly written from a grammatical and humanitarian standpoint . To clarify, I am the farthest thing from a racist but was surprised that this book was written by an individual who was able to take control of Europe for half a decade. It sounded like a whining child rambling about life‘s unfairness. So then I thought maybe the translation to English changes the perception, so I spoke to a few Germans I knew in the literary field and they all said the German version is exactly the same.

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