Sunday, December 2, 2012

Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' is popular in India

Hitler in Warsaw after the conquest of the western half of Poland in September 1939; the first military stage of his attempted realisation of the plan set out in Mein Kampf
According to this story on the Daily Beast there are over a dozen Indian publishers with editions in print which sell significant quantities.

Much of Hitler’s Indian afterlife is the legacy of Bal Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena party who died on 17 November.

Thackeray freely, openly, and often admitted his admiration for Hitler, his book, the Nazis, and their methods. In 1993, for example, he gave an interview to Time magazine. “There is nothing wrong,” he said then, “if Muslims are treated as Jews were in Nazi Germany.”

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