Czech publishers ordered to withdraw Mein Kampf

A Prague court dealing with a complaint lodged by the state of Bavaria against a Czech publishing company over the publishing and sale of Hitler’s Mein Kampf in the Czech Republic has ordered the latter to withdraw the book from the market and destroy all copies on stock. Bavaria lodged the complaint in April of this year on the grounds that the Bavarian Finance Ministry owns the copyright to the book until 2015, seventy years after Hitler’s death. No representative of the Czech KMa publishers was present in court and it is not clear if they are planning to appeal the verdict.