{"id":284652,"date":"2016-12-15T03:49:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T02:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/italy-mein-kampf-top-10-school-book\/"},"modified":"2016-12-15T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T18:50:10","slug":"italy-mein-kampf-top-10-school-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/italy-mein-kampf-top-10-school-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy: Mein Kampf \u201cTop 10\u201d School Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A national poll in Italy among 138,000 secondary schools and 3.5 million students has found that Adolf Hitler\u2019s <em>Mein Kampf<\/em> is one of their top ten favorite reading materials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The finding shocked the liberal establishment in Italy, particularly in light of the fact that Hitler\u2019s book came out tops among some 10,000 different titles nominated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainews.it\/dl\/rainews\/media\/Il-Mein-Kampf-di-Adolf-Hitler-finisce-a-sorpresa-nella-top-10-di-10-scuole-italiane-bc570c6b-75c6-440b-8fb7-c31d4dd16b92.html#foto-1\" target=\"_blank\">According to a report in RAI news,<\/a> a survey launched by Italy\u2019s Ministry for Education to promote reading and discover which books are \u201cmost beloved\u201d by schoolchildren, showed that several secondary schools included <em>Mein Kampf<\/em> in their top ten lists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alessandro Fusacchia, from the Italian Ministry for Education, referred to the choice as a \u201cparticularly nasty case\u201d, adding that the book was ineligible for the vote in any case as secondary school pupils had been asked to select books by Italian authors published after 2000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said: \u201cWe are looking into it, but we are convinced that it was not a bad interpretation of the request, but rather a free choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read the rest at <a href=\"http:\/\/newobserveronline.com\/italy-mein-kampf-top-10-school-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">The New Observer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national poll in Italy among 138,000 secondary schools and 3.5 million students has found that Adolf Hitler\u2019s Mein Kampf is one of their top ten favorite reading materials. The finding shocked the liberal establishment in Italy, particularly in light of the fact that Hitler\u2019s book came out tops among some 10,000 different titles nominated. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}