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Bavaria wins Mein Kampf ban in Czech Republic
Sep 17, 2010, 10:49 GMT
Prague - A Czech court ruled in favour of the Free State of Bavaria on Friday, ordering a Czech publisher to pull out and destroy its Czech-language edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, court spokeswoman said.
The Municipal Court in Prague agreed with Bavaria, which sued the company, KMa s.r.o., for publishing the book without having the copyright, which is held by the Bavarian Ministry of Finance until 2015.
The court also ordered the company to withdraw and destroy the Czech edition of Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel of Mein Kampf, which was first published in English in the United States in 2003.
The firm may appeal the verdict.
Many European countries, including the Czech Republic, ban promotion of the Nazi ideology outlined in Hitler's writings. Millions of people, including 6 million Jews, were killed during the Holocaust and World War II launched by Nazi Germany.
Czech courts earlier handed out a suspended sentence and a hefty fine to another Mein Kampf publisher, convicting him on hate speech charges.
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