{"id":18744,"date":"2015-12-29T00:44:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T04:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=18744"},"modified":"2026-07-19T05:40:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:40:52","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-adolf-hitlers-mein-kampf-copyright-expiring-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/letter-to-the-editor-adolf-hitlers-mein-kampf-copyright-expiring-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf Copyright Expiring in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Editor:
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"kampf\"During 1924-1926, Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf<\/em>. The 70-year copyright of this work expires at the end of 2015<\/a>. It is now being re-published, with many annotations in January 2016 after three years of work on the 2000 page book(s).<\/p>\n

Here’s what Adolf Hitler wrote, inter alia:<\/p>\n

“THE BEST WAY to take control over a people and control them utterly, is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions.\u00a0 In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed – until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

History repeating itself innocuously?\u00a0 It reminds me of the frog in the cool water.\u00a0 It remains there and adjusts to the ever-so-slight increases in temperature of the water – until it’s boiling and the end ….<\/p>\n

A & R<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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