Real History and Hitler’s Mein Kampf> today’s ” AR-online” again AR-Online recent issues: December 1999 November 1999 October 1999 September 1999 August 1999 July 1999 June 1999 May 1999 April 1999 March 1999 February 1999 January 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 August 1998 July 1998 Toronto, Reisman bans Mein Kampf from Chapters and Indigo BY JAMES ADAMS Globe and Mail HEATHER Reisman has
ordered all copies of Mein Kampf pulled from the shelves of Chapters and Indigo bookstores and deleted from the company’s on-line ordering service. In an action praised in some quarters and criticized in others, Ms.
Reisman , the Toronto-based chairwoman and CEO of Indigo Books and Music Inc., confirmed Wednesday that she banned the controversial title from all 200-plus Indigo and Chapters outlets after she spotted a display of the 694-page book earlier in the week while touring a Chapters outlet. Ms. Reisman said Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf is inappropriate for sale in her stores. “We consider it hate literature,” she said. “With freedom of expression, the line is drawn on hate literature.
It’s a corporate decision. It’s what we stand for. It’s our point of view. “It isn’t written down, but I would have no difficulty writing it down.” She said that even before Indigo assumed control of the Chapters chain earlier this year, Mein Kampf was a banned title in her view. It “got ordered accidentally, I don’t know how,” she said. “It might have been part of Chapters’s database. “All of them have been returned and are en route