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by ben_w 335 days ago
There's a reason the inherititors of the coyright* refused to allow more copies of Mein Kampf to be produced until that copyright expired.

* the federal state of Bavaria

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Was there? It seems like that was the perfect natural experiment then. So what was the outcome? Was there a sudden rash of holocausts the year that publishing started again?
> Was there a sudden rash of holocausts the year that publishing started again?

Bit worse than the baseline, I'd say. You judge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides

2016 was also first Trump, Brexit, and roughly when the AfD (who are metaphorically wading ankle deep in the waters of legal trouble of this topic) made the transition from "joke party" to "political threat".