A Croatian publisher said calls by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to ban his company’s edition of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” could “cause more anti-Semitic sentiment than a book published 70 years ago.” Franjo Letic made his comments after the center asked the German state of Bavaria, which he says owns the copyright for the book, to have the Croatian translation of Hitler’s autobiography withdrawn from sale.
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