'As a bookseller, we provide customers with access to a variety of viewpoints, including titles that serve an important educational role in understanding and preventing anti-Semitism,' Amazon told Newsweek Monday.
have been removed from online retail giant Amazon. Other works by Nazi authors or writing encouraging anti-Semitism have also been taken down, according to a Monday report fromHowever, the book has not been completely banned from Amazon, as some academic versions have been deemed as"educational."
"As a bookseller, we provide customers with access to a variety of viewpoints," an Amazon spokesperson told,"including titles that serve an important educational role in understanding and preventing anti-Semitism. All retailers make decisions about what selection they choose to offer and we do not take selection decisions lightly."was written by Hitler before he rose to power in Germany and began his attempted genocide of Jewish persons.
"Written eight years before he assumed power in Germany, the book lays it all out: his megalomania, his conspiratorial obsession with Jews and his lust for power," the description reads."For all who claimed they didn't know, all they had to do was readThe Poisonous Mushroom , a children's book published by Nazi Julius Streicher around 1938. Allegorical in nature, the book attempts to draw a parallel between the Jewish people and the titular poisonous mushroom.. After being found guilty during the Nuremberg trials for crimes against humanity, Streicher was executed in 1946.
Amazon has removed some listings selling versions of Adolf Hitler's"Mein Kampf"' and other anti-Semitic writings.Based in London, the Holocaust Educational Trust wrote a letter to Amazon which may have led to"As the Holocaust moves from living history to history, our survivors regularly raise the concern that Holocaust denial and antisemitism still persist," wrote HET Chief Executive Karen Pollock MBE in February.
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