Manga ‘Mein Kampf’ gives Hitler a wider audience in Japan

October 5th, 2009 LONDON - Keen to ensure British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was fully aware of the threat posed by Adolf Hitler in 1938, Britain's intelligence agencies told him that the German leader called him an arsehole", says a new book. Britain's domestic security service MI5 was desperate to draw the attention of Chamberlain to its 1938 assessment that Hitler was in the early stages of a massive programme of territorial expansion.

September 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Even as thousands of people packed the streets of Washington on Friday to protest against government spending, some of the agitators likened President Barack Obama to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. According to a CBS report, most of those would have called themselves "patriots" arguing that their government was betraying traditional principles.

September 15th, 2009 LONDON - Two Belgian 'Hitler-hunters' claim to have traced 39 relatives of the Fuhrer in Austria and the US. Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders and historian Marc Vermeeren say that they pinned down on Hitler's kin by matching the DNA of the Nazi leader to discarded cigarette butts in an Austrian village, a used paper napkin from a New York restaurant, and letters sent from France three decades ago.

August 14th, 2009 LONDON - A signed copy of Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto "Mein Kampf" has fetch 21,000 pounds at an auction. The semi-autobiographical work outlining Hitler's anti-Semitic ideology was sold at Mullock's auctions at Ludlow racecourse, Shropshire.

August 13th, 2009 Hitler's infamous manifesto sold in UKLONDON — More than 80 years after it was first published —and later outlawed— in Germany, a signed copy of Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto "Mein Kampf" was sold Thursday for 21,000 pounds ($34,900). The semi-autobiographical work outlining Hitler's anti-Semitic ideology, was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder at an auction in the town of Ludlow in western England.

August 13th, 2009 Hitler's infamous manifesto up for auction in UKLONDON — A British auction house says a signed copy of Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto "Mein Kampf" is going under the hammer. Mullock's Auctioneers says the semi-autobiographical book will be auctioned on Thursday in Ludlow, 124 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of London.

August 6th, 2009 BERLIN - Leaders of the Jewish community in Germany have called for a republication of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (My Struggle), which would be accompanied by a critical introduction and footnotes challenging Hitler's assertions. Currently, the German state of Bavaria has a 70-year exclusive copyright on publishing the book, which is due to expire at the end of 2015, leading to fears of a free-for-all among unscrupulous publishers, The Telegraph reported.

August 3rd, 2009 ONDON - Hitler's Nazi Germany was proving to be an unstoppable force in the early days of the Second World War, but the dictator made a series of strategic mistakes which resulted in his defeat, a new book has claimed. In his new book The Storm Of War, English Historian Andrew Roberts points out that Hitler should have settled matters with Britain before invading Russia during Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941.

July 27th, 2009 BERLIN - Descendants of famous German composer Richard Wagner have decided to reveal their family's proximity to Adolf Hitler. The two great-granddaughters of Wagner, who held their first Bayreuth Festival this weekend, have promised to reveal whether their grandmother, Winifred Wagner, slept with Hitler, the Times Online reports.

July 20th, 2009 LONDON - Henry Ford's automobile production techniques did not only revolutionize the car industry, but his methods and beliefs also had a huge effect on the infamous Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, a new book has revealed. In 1920, Hitler's staff was astonished to see Ford's portrait hanging at the Nazi Party headquarters in Munich.

July 17th, 2009 LONDON - German prosecutors have launched an investigation into whether a garden gnome with its right arm raised in a Heil Hitler salute breaks the law. According to The Times, the golden gnome has gone on display at an art gallery in Nuremberg, the Bavarian city that hosted huge Nazi party rallies before the Second World War and the major war crimes trials afterwards.alter Traeg, a spokesman for the Nuremberg public prosecutors office, said that investigators had to ascertain whether the gnome breached post-War laws banning Hitler salutes and other Nazi symbols.

July 6th, 2009 F1 boss Ecclestone insists he won't resignLONDON — Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone insists he will not resign because of his comments praising Adolf Hitler's leadership. In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Ecclestone defended his weekend comments that Hitler "got things done." Ecclestone, F1's commercial rights holder, dismissed calls from the World Jewish Congress that he resign.

May 13th, 2009 ROME - The Vatican has involved itself in a fresh public relations fiasco for seeking to rewrite the biography of Pope Benedict XVI by denying that he was ever a member of the Hitler Youth. Even though the 82-year-old German pontiff has admitted in numerous interviews that he was drafted unwillingly into the Nazi youth movement towards the end of the war, his spokesman came up with another version.

May 10th, 2009 LONDON - A self-portrait by Adolf Hitler, which sold at an auction for 10,000 pounds - ten times its reserve price, is now being denounced as fake. When the painting, signed "A.

January 26th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise, who admits that he grew up 'wanting to kill Hitler', is unfazed by the criticism Nazi thriller 'Valkyrie' faces. He says he knew that any story showing 'good Germans' would hit the headlines.