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by chistev 201 days ago
Interesting that he still has an estate. And thanks for explaining what it means
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Estate is a common law concept. There’s no direct equivalent in German law.
In practice, there was not a Hitler estate - the government of Bavaria (a state in Germany) took ownership of the copyright.
...did they exercise it?
Rather the opposite, they disallowed anyone from printing copies