Walmart pulled Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' after selling the book online for $14.88 — but they're not the only online bookseller to stock fascist texts from a mysterious publisher (WMT)
Walmart came under fire for prominently featuring Adolf Hitler's autobiography "Mein Kampf" in a sponsored Facebook post. The retailer's since-deleted listing of the book also included a price of $14.88, a number significant in white supremacist circles. But Walmart isn't the only bookseller to sell controversial titles from the obscure Chicago publisher Metal-Inex Inc. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Walmart ignited controversy on Monday the retailer's books Facebook page publish a sponsored post prominently featuring Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf." The sponsored post — which encouraged followers to "start reading with Walmart eBooks today" in exchange for a $10 coupon — featured a painting of Hitler front-and-center. The since-deleted ad lives on in screenshots taken by social media users . Here’s where we’re at in the United States: we are perpetrating crimes against humanity at the border at the same time as @Walmart is using Mein Kampf to promote its ebooks on @facebook #TrumpConcentrationCamps #TrumpCamps pic.twitter.com|WlhXN8nBYL — David Slavick (@davidslavick) July 1, 2019 The retailer scrapped the ad and pulled the book in question from its website. "This item has no place on our web site and it has been removed," a Walmart spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider.
Walmart pulled Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' after selling the book online for $14.88 — but they're not the only online bookseller to stock fascist texts from a mysterious publisher (WMT)
Walmart came under fire for prominently featuring Adolf Hitler's autobiography "Mein Kampf" in a sponsored Facebook post. The retailer's since-deleted listing of the book also included a price of $14.88, a number significant in white supremacist circles. But Walmart isn't the only bookseller to sell controversial titles from the obscure Chicago publisher Metal-Inex Inc. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Walmart ignited controversy on Monday the retailer's books Facebook page publish a sponsored post prominently featuring Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf." The sponsored post — which encouraged followers to "start reading with Walmart eBooks today" in exchange for a $10 coupon — featured a painting of Hitler front-and-center. The since-deleted ad lives on in screenshots taken by social media users . Here’s where we’re at in the United States: we are perpetrating crimes against humanity at the border at the same time as @Walmart is using Mein Kampf to promote its ebooks on @facebook #TrumpConcentrationCamps #TrumpCamps pic.twitter.com|WlhXN8nBYL — David Slavick (@davidslavick) July 1, 2019 The retailer scrapped the ad and pulled the book in question from its website. "This item has no place on our web site and it has been removed," a Walmart spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider.