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Bavaria wins Mein Kampf ban in Czech Republic

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The court also ordered the company to withdraw and destroy the Czech edition of Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel of Mein Kampf, which was first published in English in the United States in 2003....
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