While it is not a best seller, especially by manga standards, the manga version of Hitler’s most infamous writing, わが闘争 (waga tōsō, Mein Kampf) is selling pretty well–45,000 have been sold so far. It is the best selling manga in the publishing company’s “read it via manga” series, which includes an adaptation of Marx’s Das Kapital.
There have been calls recently to allow the publishing of Mein Kampf in Germany, which is something that has been forbidden since the end of World War II. On top of that the work is still under copyright, being held by the Bavarian Finance Ministry, but that will end in 2015. To head off Neo-Nazi groups who would twist the work to their ends, German Jewish author Rafael Seligmann has suggested publishing an annotated version to give readers an historical framework and educate people about the evil that was Hitler. So far, the proposal for lifting the ban has not been accepted. As for the manga version, it has been dismissed by the Ministry as the wrong medium to tell the story in.
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