“Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book!”

—  Friedrich Kellner

Referring to Mein Kampf, in Kellner's political speeches against the Nazis, 1926 - 1932. “Tagebücher gegen den Terror,” Mainz Allgemeine Zeitung, Mainz, Germany, September 24, 2005.
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