​Some colleagues have asked for a way to associate themselves publicly with a protest to MLBD about their publication of Mein Kampf. 
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​I've started the public petition "Motilal Banarsidass, Indological Publishers in Delhi: Stop publishing and selling Hitler's Mein Kampf" and you can sign it if you wish to add your name to the initiative.

Here's the link:

Here's the statement, which is extracted from my open letter:

Hitler's Mein Kampf is a racist, anti-Jewish diatribe that laid out his plans for racial sterilization. He carried out these plans after starting the Second World War and masterminding the industrialized murder of six million innocents. He murdered Jews, priests, gays, gypsies, and people with brown skin. History has judged Hitler as one of the greatest criminals of all time, a true monster.

It has been established by many scholars and historians that Hitler's Mein Kampf was written with the express intent of promoting communal hatred and violence and with “deliberate and malicious intention of outraging religious feelings.” The government of Bavaria, in agreement with the federal government of Germany, refuses to allow any copying or printing of the book in Germany, and opposes it also in other countries, because it promotes hatred and war. Publishing Mein Kampf is thus a criminal act under Sections 153A and 295A of the Indian Penal Code.

Motilal Banarsidass (MLBD) has prided itself on its national and international identity as an Indological publisher. Now MLBD has decided to pollute its publication list with a book that is one of the world's most notorious books that deliberately promotes violence and death, a book that has nothing to do with Indology. 

We, the undersigned, call upon MLBD to withdraw Mein Kampf from publication.

You can sign the petition by clicking here.

The idea is that in about six weeks, this petition and its signatures will be emailed to MLBD.

Best wishes
Dominik Wujastyk

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