mein-kampf
Anne Frank's Diary and Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf Both Enter the Public Domain on Friday
Brendan O'Connor · 12/30/15 11:40PMA copyright fight is brewing in Europe this week as the deadline after which two key WWII-era texts will fall within the public domain steadily approaches. In Europe, a book becomes public domain 70 years after the author’s death, on the first day of January. This Friday, January 1st, both Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl and Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf will enter the public domain.
Make Hitler Happy: The Beginning of Mein Kampf, as Told by Coca-Cola
Max Read · 02/04/15 11:15AM"Make it happy!" Coca-Cola's new marketing campaign exhorts. The campaign, introduced during a Super Bowl commercial, is accompanied by a stunt through which Twitter users reply to negative tweets with the hashtag "#MakeItHappy"; Coca-Cola then transforms those tweets into cute ASCII art. "We turned the hate you found into something happy," @CocaCola chirps.
History Re-reading: Hitler's Mein Kampf to Be Published in Germany for First Time Since WWII
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/27/12 09:38AMHitler Memorabilia Is a 'Small-Scale Industry' in India
Max Read · 06/18/10 02:16AMKenneth Eng Full Of Murderous Rage, Savvy Marketing Strategies
abalk2 · 05/04/07 02:44PMLike so many of us, Kenneth "It Should Have Been Me Who Killed All Those White Kids" Eng, has a book in him. It's a lighthearted, "Bill Maherish" romp through a litany of things Kenneth wants all Asians to hate. Ken's e-mail solicitation going out to publishers reveals that the man is a master strategist of the hard sell ("What's in it for you? Imagine having the ONLY manuscript that defends the VA Tech Shooter") with a firm grasp of the publishing industry's current concerns ("Occasionally, I will use personal anecdotes (proof of which I have, to prevent another James Frey) about my many physical and verbal fights with whites and blacks."). Interested? Of course you are. His solicitation follows.