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Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Returns to Stores as Copyright Expires  由于版权到期,希特勒的《我的奋斗》将再次出版

Annotated reprints of Hitler's semi-autobiographical book Mein Kampf, or My Struggle, are going on sale in Germany and elsewhere this week, after the copyright to the book expired at the end of last year.  The new German publication of Hitler's political manifesto for the first time after 70 years has sparked a debate about whether it is right to reprint the anti-Semitic work.

The German state of Bavaria, which held the copyright to Hitler's book from 1945, refused anyone the rights to publish it out of respect for victims of the Nazis. But on January 1, the work entered the public domain, and several publishers have prepared annotated reprints for sale.

自1945年起,希特勒所著书籍的版权就属于德国的巴伐利亚州,出于对纳粹受害者的尊重,该州政府拒绝授权出版此书。但是从1月1日起,该书就进入了公有领域,而数家出版商已经开始准备其附注版本的再版、销售事宜。犹太人民认为,这本书时刻提醒着人们希特勒的残酷恶行。

"To find Mein Kampf from the windows of bookstores would be...I just can’t imagine it.I hope this will be prevented for going against sedition laws.”

“难以想象我将会在书店的橱窗里看到《我的奋斗》,我希望它会由于煽动罪而被禁止出版。”

The book is not banned in Germany and there is little authorities can do.“It’s not easy to ban this for copyright reasons; however, anything that seems to be a hate crime can be pursued.”Criminal offenses related to a hate crime will be very systematically pursued in the future.”

但是这本书在德国却并没有被禁止出版,因此德国当局无权进行过多干涉。“我们很难以版权为由禁止此书出版,但我们会将所有仇恨罪行的罪犯绳之以法。日后,与仇恨罪行相关的刑事犯罪将会遭到全面追捕。”

There are also arguments that the 800-page book should be demystified, and that the best way to do that is to publish a properly annotated edition.

另外一些人认为这本长达800页的书籍应该为人们所知,最好的方法就是为这本书作适当的注释后出版。

"Mein Kampf can’t be read like a bible. It has to be put into context, with sociologists and historians.If we do it like that, it will no longer have a negative influence on the public, compared to what we see today with [the anti-immigrant group] Pegida for instance, who quote Mein Kampf without thinking.”

“《我的奋斗》不能作为普适性的权威书籍被解读,而要将其置于特定背景下,由社会学家和历史学家进行注解。我相信这将会消除其在公众中引发的负面影响,比如,当前的反移民团体竟会不加考虑就引用《我的奋斗》中的语句。”

Hitler’s book is banned in several countries, including Austria and the Netherlands, and it is taboo in Israel, where only abbreviated copies are available for study. Some Israeli scholars, believe there is a need for the complete version.

希特勒的书在不少国家都被禁止出版,包括奥地利和荷兰,而它在以色列更是一种禁忌,只能见到少数供研究使用的缩减版。一些以色列学者认为,他们需要这本书的完整版。

"Mein Kampf is an important book because Hitler spent a lot of time writing and phrasing it,so it has basic ideas from his thoughts, of which parts were implemented and other parts not; but, even the parts that were not implemented have importance, to understand the background in which he grew.”

“希特勒花费了大量的时间撰写《我的奋斗》,因而这本书是十分重要的,它包含了希特勒的基本思想和理念,这些理念中有些被付诸实践,另外一些则没有。但是没有施行的那部分在帮助人们了解希特勒的成长环境时也同样重要。”

Many Israelis are ambivalent."It’s complicated.On the one hand I’m not thrilled about the fact that Mein Kampf can now be in even wider dissemination around the world, given the hateful content that it contains, but on the other hand, it’s kind of impossible to control speech, and I’m not even sure that we should.”

不少以色列人民犹豫不决。“这件事很复杂。一方面,我并不会为《我的奋斗》在全世界广泛传播而兴奋,因为它包含一些令人憎恶的内容。但另一方面,我们无法控制公众言论,也不确定我们是不是应该采取控制。”

Mein Kampf outlines Hitler’s ideology and is considered the basis of his politics of National Socialism. He wrote it in a Bavarian prison while serving a sentence for treason after his failed 1923 putsch in Munich.

《我的奋斗》概述了希特勒的思想体系,是其国家社会主义思想的基础。1923年慕尼黑政变失败后,他因叛国罪被捕入狱,在巴伐利亚的监狱中写成此书。

  原文地址:http://www.tingroom.com/voastandard/2016/1/340198.html